Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action - Couverture rigide

Kashwan, Prakash

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1350335479 ISBN 13 : 9781350335479

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

Explores the colonial European history of mainstream environmentalism and offers alternative visions of environmental stewardship which build on the knowledge and praxis of indigenous people, racial minorities, and rural communities.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Prakash Kashwan is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and an affiliated faculty at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, Waltham. He is the author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press 2017), Editor of Climate Justice in India (Cambridge University Press 2022), Editor of the journal Environmental Politics (Taylor & Francis), and co-founder of Climate Justice Network.

Aseem Hasnain is a sociologist at California State University, Fresno. Prior to his PhD (UNC @ Chapel Hill), he was a community organizer with non-profits working with indigenous and peasant communities in Western, and Central India. He is a political sociologist interested in the ideological dimensions of politics, and culture. His published research engages with indigenous social movements; identity politics, colonialism, democracy, and the public sphere; comparative human rights; politics of knowledge production; and the linkages between caste ideology and vegetarianism. He grew up in Lucknow India, and lives in Fresno, CA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350335479
• ISBN 13: 9781350335479
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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