Environmental Defenders (eBook, ePUB)

Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory
Redaktion: Menton, Mary; Le Billon, Philippe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence, repression, criminalization and assassination they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000402216
• Artikelnr.: 61775299

Autorenporträt

Mary Menton is a Research Fellow in Environmental Justice with the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme at the University of Sussex, UK. She is a part of the core-team of Not1More, a collective that works to support at-risk environmental defenders. Philippe Le Billon is Professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of multiple publications, including Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts (Routledge, 2013), and collaborates with human rights and environmental investigation organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1 - On Defenders 2. Conflicts in the Amazon: The
Assassination of José Claudio and Maria 3. How young Cambodian
environmental activists work under dictatorship 4. Human rights violations
in the name of conservation in the Ngorongoro District 5. "Environmental
defenders": the power / disempowerment of a loaded term 6. Atmospheres of
Violence: On defenders' intersecting experiences of violence 7.
Environmental defenders: Killings, perpetrators, and drivers of violence 8.
The gendered criminalization of land defenders in Ecuador: from
individualization to collective resistance in feminized territories 9.
Insurgent ideas from indigenous peoples in Brazil: counter-colonial
epistemologies and the defense of life Part 2 - 'Dirty' Projects 10. The
Permutations of Poverty 11. Violence and resistance in Ceará Indígena,
Northeastern Brazil 12. 'Land defenders' and the political ecology of coal
power in Bangladesh 13. Manifestations of violence: Case study of
Moolampilly eviction for a development project in Kerala 14. Defenders and
land struggles against agro-industrial and mining investment projects 15.
How violence is justified in 'democratic countries' Part 3 - 'Green'
Projects 16. Resist or comply? Experiences of violence around dams in
Cambodia 17. Pacifying autonomous land defenders in Oaxaca, Mexico: Human
rights groups as social warfare mechanisms 18. Land defenders,
infrastructural violence and environmental coloniality: Resisting a
wastewater treatment plant in Eastern Nablus 19. Defending territory from
the extraction and conservation nexus 20. BINGOs & environmental defenders:
NGO complicity in atmospheres of violence and the possibilities for
decolonial solidarity with defenders 21. Defending Territories of Life
through Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) 22. Interrogating
international cooperation in support of environmental human rights
defenders: the Geneva Roadmap 40/11 and the power of connecting solutions