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Defending the Arctic refuge : a photographer, an Indigenous nation, and a fight for environmental justice / Finis Dunaway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunaway, Finis, author.
- Series:
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmentalists--Political activity--United States.
- Environmentalists.
- Photographers--Political activity--United States.
- Photographers.
- Gwich'in Indians--Political activity.
- Gwich'in Indians.
- Show-and-tell presentations--Political aspects.
- Show-and-tell presentations.
- Environmental justice--Alaska--Citizen participation.
- Environmental justice.
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)--History--20th century.
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska).
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska)--Government policy--Citizen participation.
- Kohm, Lenny, 1939-2014--Political activity.
- Kohm, Lenny.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 329 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- In a time of escalating climate change, species extinction, and threats to Indigenous lands and cultures, this book demonstrates the power of collective action to defend human rights and ecosystems and the ability of diverse alliances to take on multinational corporations and change the world.
- Contents:
- On the road
- The last great wilderness
- The sacred place where life begins
- Lenny's epiphany
- Glendon Brunk's epiphany
- Delivering Bosco
- The little white man who never sleeps
- The slide show at the Art Farm
- Science and skulduggery
- I hope people from the south listen
- Rebirth of a nation
- The Arctic Refuge in a broader frame
- Grassroots versus Goliath
- Catastrophe and the coalition of conscience
- Native corporations and Arctic drilling
- A victory for the grassroots
- Gwich'in recruits, Gwich'in lives
- Budget showdown
- Turning spectators into activists
- 9/11
- Flat, white nothingness?
- How the Refuge survived the W. years
- Building a bigger choir
- The slide show in Old Crow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908598-0-8
- 979-88-908598-1-5
- 1-4696-6110-1
- OCLC:
- 1246553815
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