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From the Skin
In this volume, contributors demonstrate the real-world
application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own
communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility,
and justice-work that is from the skin . In From the
Skin , contributors reflect on and describe how they apply the
theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities,
programs, and organizations, and the ways the discipline has
informed and influenced the same. They show the ways these efforts
advance disciplinary theories, methodologies, and praxes. Chapters
cover topics including librarianship, health programs, community
organizing, knowledge recovery, youth programming, and gendered
violence. Through their examples, the contributors show how they
negotiate their peoples' knowledge systems with knowledge produced
in Indigenous studies programs, demonstrating how they understand
the relationship between their people, their nations, and academia.
Editors J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer propose and develop the
term practitioner-theorist to describe how the
contributors theorize and practice knowledge within and between
their nations and academia. Because they live and exist in their
community, these practitioner-theorists always consider how their
thinking and actions benefit their people and nations. The
practitioner-theorists of this volume envision and labor toward
decolonial futures where Indigenous peoples and nations exist on
their own terms. Contributors Randi Lynn
Boucher-Giago Elise Boxer Shawn Brigman J. Jeffery Clark Nick Estes
Eric Hardy Shalene Joseph Jennifer Marley Brittani R. Orona
Alexander Soto
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The capacity for civic engagement : public and private worlds of the self
\"This is a book about how we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life, a connection sometimes expressed in the language of civic engagement, public service, and commitment to the public good. While we do not lack for literature to guide us in thinking about public life, we have less to call on when our problem is not only to explore public ideals and institutions, but also to consider the nature and origin of our capacity to make a connection with and find meaning in those institutions and ideals. Levine explores the nature and origin of this capacity to form a connection and find meaning\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town's restoration of
the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a
uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production
Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War
communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A.
Huegel tells the story of the unlikely partnership of grassroots
activists, regulators, union workers, and politicians that
responded to the event with a new kind of environmental movement.
The community group Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety and
Health (FRESH) drew on the expertise of national organizations
while maintaining its autonomy and focus on Fernald. Leveraging
local patriotism and employment concerns, FRESH recruited
blue-collar allies into an innovative program that fought for both
local jobs and a healthier environment. Fernald's transformation
into a nature reserve with an on-site radioactive storage facility
reflected the political compromises that left waste sites improved
yet imperfect. At the same time, FRESH's outsized influence
transformed how the government scaled down the Cold War weapons
complex, enforced health and safety standards, and reckoned with
the immense environmental legacy of the nuclear arms race. A
compelling history of environmental mobilization, Cleaning Up
the Bomb Factory details the diverse goals and mixed successes
of a groundbreaking activist movement.
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The soil
\"A major, never before translated novel by the author of Mujông / The Heartless -- often called the first modern Korean novel -- The Soil tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised. Striving to influence the poor farmers of the time to improve their lots, become self-reliant, and thus indirectly change the reality of colonial life on the Korean peninsula, The Soil was vitally important to the social movements of the time, echoing the effects and reception of such English-language novels as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Combating Mountaintop Removal
Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Mountaintop Removal critically examines the fierce conflicts over this violent and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining. Bryan T. McNeil documents the changing relationships among the coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their broader networks. Focusing on Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW), an organization composed of individuals who have personal ties to the coal industry in the region, the study reveals a turn away from once-strong traditional labor unions and the emergence of community-based activist organizations. By framing social and moral arguments in terms of the environment, these innovative hybrid movements take advantage of environmentalism's higher profile in contemporary politics. In investigating the local effects of globalization and global economics, McNeil tracks the profound reimagining of social and personal ideas such as identity, history, and landscape and considers their roles in organizing an agenda for progressive community activism.
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Guardians of Aotearoa : protecting New Zealand's legacies
\"Celebrating New Zealanders passionate about what they hold dear; be it restoring and caring for our environment, preserving skills and knowledge or upholding values that are part of what it means to call this place home\"--Back cover.
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Activists in City Hall : the progressive response to the Reagan era in Boston and Chicago
In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government was trying to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities' poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of growth as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an office development boom while securing millions of dollars for affordable housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.
Activists in City Hall examines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in each administration and each city's activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of each mayor were numerous factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other contemporary progressive cities-Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco- Activists in City Hall provides a new account of progressive urban politics during the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists.
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Standing Our Ground
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.
The Appalachian women featured in Barry's book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry's engaging and original work reveals how women's tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.
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