Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory

ISBN-13: 9780367649647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 298 str.

Mary Menton; Philippe Le Billon

Opis

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence, repression, criminalization and assassination they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1 - On Defenders  2. Conflicts in the Amazon: The Assassination of José Claudio and Maria  3. How young Cambodian environmental activists work under dictatorship  4. Human rights violations in the name of conservation in the Ngorongoro District  5. "Environmental defenders": the power / disempowerment of a loaded term  6. Atmospheres of Violence: On defenders’ intersecting experiences of violence  7. Environmental defenders: Killings, perpetrators, and drivers of violence  8. The gendered criminalization of land defenders in Ecuador: from individualization to collective resistance in feminized territories  9. Insurgent ideas from indigenous peoples in Brazil: counter-colonial epistemologies and the defense of life  Part 2 - 'Dirty' Projects  10. The Permutations of Poverty  11. Violence and resistance in Ceará Indígena, Northeastern Brazil  12. ‘Land defenders’ and the political ecology of coal power in Bangladesh  13. Manifestations of violence: Case study of Moolampilly eviction for a development project in Kerala  14. Defenders and land struggles against agro-industrial and mining investment projects  15. How violence is justified in ‘democratic countries’  Part 3 - 'Green' Projects  16. Resist or comply? Experiences of violence around dams in Cambodia  17. Pacifying autonomous land defenders in Oaxaca, Mexico: Human rights groups as social warfare mechanisms  18. Land defenders, infrastructural violence and environmental coloniality: Resisting a wastewater treatment plant in Eastern Nablus  19. Defending territory from the extraction and conservation nexus  20. BINGOs & environmental defenders: NGO complicity in atmospheres of violence and the possibilities for decolonial solidarity with defenders  21. Defending Territories of Life through Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs)  22. Interrogating international cooperation in support of environmental human rights defenders: the Geneva Roadmap 40/11 and the power of connecting solutions