Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises

ISBN-13: 9780367222604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 202 str.

Jeanine M. Canty

Opis

While globalization has boosted injustice, poverty and ecological destruction, globalism offers interconnected systems of exchange and resourcefulness. Contributors consider this in relation to examples of localization, in the context of today’s ecological and social crises.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Climate Justice and the Challenge of Local Solution  2. The African Burial Ground: Roots of Ecological Destruction and Social Exploitation  3. The Ties that Bind: An Earth Based Story of Home  4. Food Justice, Permaculture, and Global Urban Strategy  5. The Declaration of Ek Balam: Protecting the Sacred in Corn  6. The Paradox of Digital Technology in Social Movements  7. A Climate Justice Compass for Transforming Self and World  8. The Evolution of the Environmental Justice Movement: Trans Local Voices for Systemic Transformations  9. Ethical Path to Ecological and Social Survival  10. Living La Vida Local: Small Steps Toward Global Change

O autorze

Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is professor at Naropa University. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, she focuses her teaching on the intersection of social and ecological justice and the process of worldview expansion and positive change. She is both an editor of and a contributor to Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and selected works featured in The Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Sustainability: The Journal of Record, World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, Shadows & Light: Theory, Research, and Practice in Transpersonal Psychology, and The Body and Oppression: Its Roots, Its Voices, and Its Resolutions.