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Rising Against the Tide : Resisting and Repurposing Hegemonic Tools to Promote Environmental Action.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raja, Urooj S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Green movement.
- Direct action.
- Environmentalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- Urooj Raja explores how to promote environmental action through the repurposing of six hegemonic forces - anthropocentrism, extractivism, capitalism, legal hegemony, technofixes, and imaginative hegemony - drawing upon and offering practical insights rooted in both everyday actions and contemporary resistance studies.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Book Structure and Outline
- Chapter 1: Resisting Anthropocentrism to Promote Environmental Action
- Defining Anthropocentrism: Humans Take Center Stage
- How Anthropocentrism Drives Climate and Environmental Inaction
- How CEAs Resist Anthropocentrism Through Adaptive Resistance
- Biomimicry Advocacy and Climate and Environmental Action
- Fridays for Future and Climate and Environmental Action
- No Future, No Children Pledges and Climate and Environmental Action
- #StopWillowProject Climate and Environmental Action
- #Chipko Movement, Northeastern Himalaya Region
- Chapter 2: Resisting Extractivism to Promote Environmental Action
- Extractivism as a Hegemonic Tool and Its Relationship to Environmental Inaction
- Imprints of Adaptive Resilience: Understanding Lived Experience, Culture, Social Networks, and Environmental Action
- How CEAs Lean on Their Culture Knowledge to Resist Extractivism During the No Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) Protests
- Setting the Stage for #NoDAPL Protests
- How CEAs Used Care and Support Networks to Resist Extractivism During the No Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL)
- CEAs Resisting Disposability Within the AEJ Movement Through Networks and "Logic of Care"
- Chapter 3: Repurposing Capitalism to Promote Environmental Action
- The Rise of Corporations: The Key Players in Capitalism
- Two Main Perspectives on the Role of Corporations in Society
- How Corporations Contribute to Environmental Inaction
- The Case for Corporations as a Public Good Entity
- Consumer Pressure and Company Accountability
- How CEAs Repurpose Capitalism Through Adaptive Resilience
- How CEAs Repurpose Capitalism Through the Circular Economy.
- How CEAs Within Patagonia Repurposed Capitalism Through Adaptive Resilience
- Chapter 4: Repurposing Legal Hegemony to Promote Environmental Action
- Legal Hegemony: Broader Context and Players
- How the Legal Hegemony Is Marshaled Against Climate and Environmental Inaction
- How CEAs Repurpose Laws for Climate and Environmental Action
- Chapter 5: Repurposing Technofixes to Promote Environmental Action
- The Rise of Technofixes and Environmental Problems
- How CEAs Repurpose Drones for Climate Action
- How CEAs Repurpose Games for Climate and Environmental Action
- How CEAs Repurpose Virtual Reality (VR) for Climate and Environmental Action
- Chapter 6: Resisting Imaginative Hegemony to Promote Environmental Action
- The Dominant Climate Imagination
- How CEAs Resist the Dominant Climate Imagination
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8189-279-1
- 979-82-16-26255-8
- OCLC:
- 1574116816
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