Steve Hamm

The Pivot

Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action

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Produktbeschreibung

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm, who embedded in the group from the start, tells the remarkable story of a collaborative experiment seeking to make societies more sustainable and resilient.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780231200905
• ISBN-10: 0231200900
• Artikelnr.: 61412051

Autorenporträt

Steve Hamm

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Mission
Poem: An Imagined Letter from COVID-19 to Humans
2. The Core Team
Profile: Shulamit Morris-Evans, British Extinction Rebellion activist
3. The Scrum
Profile: Waël Alafandi, Syrian refugee studying in France
4. Struggles
Profile: Anh Nguyen, Vietnamese fish exporter studying in Sweden
5. Remapping the World
Profile: Tom Rossiter, American architect and photographer
6. The Theory of Everything
Profile: Anna Panagiotou, Greek archaeologist
7. Rethinking Resilience
Profile: Sharmin Sarah Mim, Bangladeshi teacher-trainer
8. Talking to Robots
Profile: Shay Hershkovitz, Israeli political scientist and start-up
executive
9. Points of Light
Profile: Gamelilhe Sibanda, Zimbabwean technical adviser to the United
Nations
10. Places
Profile: Paola Bay, Italian artist and designer
11. Bright Ideas
Profile: Ian Mabbett, Welsh university professor and inventor
12. Connecting
Notes