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Category: Sociology  Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change (Nature, Society, and Culture) free ebook download

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Author(s): Stephanie A. Malin Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 1978823681   Pages: 230 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: risotor Upload Date: 9/15/2023 8:18:21 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the worldfrom climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governmentssocial scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer a clear, accessible volume that demonstrates the ways that communities adapt in the face of crises and explains that sociology can help us understand how and why they do this challenging work. Tackling neoliberalism head-on, these communities are making big changes by crafting distributive and regenerative systems that depart from capitalist approaches. The vivid case studies presented range from activist water protectors to hemp farmers to renewable energy cooperatives led by Indigenous peoples and nations. Alongside these studies, Malin and Kallman present incisive critiques of colonialism, extractive capitalism, and neoliberalism, while demonstrating how sociologys own disciplinary traditions have been complicit with those ideologiesand must expand beyond them. Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3201530 Book https://rapidgator.net/file/3fe9f222c657...   0.00 risotor Tags: Better Building Community Crises Culture Environmental Nature Promise Society Something Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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