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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg +3 more
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Rights in a state of exception. The deadly colonial ethics of voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights [PDF]
, 2018 It is widely accepted that voluntary corporate responsibility for human rights is a means of continuing “business-as-usual”. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been denounced as “whitewash”, with little effect in practice.
Coleman, Lara Montesinos
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Utilization of forest products for Amazonian development: potential and limitations. [PDF]
, 2013 ICAE
HOMMA, A. K. O.
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From the cartographic gaze to contestatory cartographies [PDF]
, 2018 Rene Descartes declared in the 16th Century that the world was now dominated by the visual, a notion that would be seen as defining the Enlightenment (Descartes, cited in Potts, 2015).
Specht, D., Specht, D.
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2016 The mining industry has become very dynamic in Argentina and is in fact essential to the country’s economy, repositioning the Andes mountain chain at the heart of economic, political and social issues, on different scales.
Silvina Carrizo +2 more
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Anti‐Astrotropik — Outer Space, Technology and Resistance in the Tropics
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.This paper traces an intellectual and geographical arc of thinking about outer space in the tropics, connecting Peter Redfield's Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (2000), Sean T. Mitchell's Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil (2017) and Asif Siddiqi's Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent
Rob Krawczyk
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Domesticating forests : how farmers manage forest resources [PDF]
, 2005 Local people in South-east Asia are often cited as skilled forest managers. It is barely acknowledged that an essential part of this forest management does not concern natural forests, but forests that have been planted, often after the removal of pre ...
Angelsen, A. (collab.) +13 more
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
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Biodiversity conservation under green extractivism and armed neoliberalism in Colombia
Journal of Political EcologyIn the context of the global climate and ecological crisis, increasing pressure on governments and the private sector to act, combined with inertia and resistance to transformative change, has led to a new form of extractivism.
Jane Kathryn Feeney
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