Julie Livingston

Self-Devouring Growth

A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Julie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction, thereby upending popular notions that economic growth and development is necessary for improving a communityâ s wellbeing.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006398
• ISBN-10: 1478006390
• Artikelnr.: 54619033

Autorenporträt

Julie Livingston, a 2013 recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University and author of Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic, also published by Duke University Press, and Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Prologue: A Planetary Parable 1
1. Rainmaking and Other Forgotten Things  11
2. In the Time of Beef  35
Cattle to Beef: A Photo Essay of Abstraction  61
3. Roads, Sand, and the Motorized Cow  85
4. Power and Possibility, or Did You Know Aesop Was Once a Slave?  121
Notes  129
Index  153