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“michael cepek”

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  • A Future for Amazonia

    Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics

    by Michael Cepek ...
    Blending ethnography with a fascinating personal story, A Future for Amazonia is an account of a political movement that arose in the early 1990s in response to decades of attacks on the lands and peoples of eastern Ecuador, one of the world's most culturally and biologically diverse places. After generations of ruin at the hands of colonizing farmers, transnational oil companies, and Colombian ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Life in Oil

    Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia

    by Michael L. Cepek ...
    Oil is one of the world’s most important commodities, but few people know how its extraction affects the residents of petroleum-producing regions. In the 1960s, the Texaco corporation discovered crude in the territory of Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán nation. Within a decade, Ecuador had become a member of OPEC, and the Cofán watched as their forests fell, their rivers ran black, and their bodies ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Stories in the Time of Cholera

    Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare

    by Charles L. Briggs ...
    Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, ... Read more

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  • Fighting Like a Community

    Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings

    by Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld ...
    The indigenous population of the Ecuadorian Andes made substantial political gains during the 1990s in the wake of a dynamic wave of local activism. The movement renegotiated land development laws, elected indigenous candidates to national office, and successfully fought for the constitutional redefinition of Ecuador as a nation of many cultures. Fighting Like a Community argues that these ... Read more

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  • Andean Waterways

    Resource Politics in Highland Peru

    by Mattias Borg Rasmussen, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It does so through careful ethnographic analysis of the constitution of waterways, illustrating how water becomes entangled in a variety of political, social, and cultural concerns. Set in the highland town of Recuay in Ancash, the book traces the ways in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Fresh Banana Leaves

    Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

    by Jessica Hernandez Ph.D. ...
    **A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.**Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education

    Mapping the Long View

    Edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang ...
    Series series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
    Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education features research, theory, and dynamic foundational readings for educators and educational ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • Territories of Difference

    Place, Movements, Life, Redes

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Brazil on the Rise

    The Story of a Country Transformed

    by Larry Rohter ...
    In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape--from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest--and how a complex and vibrant people defy ... Read more

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  • The Extractive Zone

    Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

    by Macarena Gómez-Barris ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority indigenous regions in South America noted for their biodiversity and long history of exploitative natural ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The Battle for Paradise

    Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

    by Naomi Klein ...
    Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico" (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path ... Read more

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