Environmental Humanities
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From  Curing the Heroin User with Jail: The 1940s and 50sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses drug law enforcement in the 1940s and 1950s, examining statistics on narcotic use and convictions before World War 2 and the years following. The depiction of addicts in … | Susan C. Boyd | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Guilt Trip |
In this chapter, the author explores how charges of hypocracy are leveled at environmentalists who have children. | Sami Grover | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From  HIV Criminalization in CanadaHow the Richest Middle Class in the World Decided to Call the Police on HIV-Positive People in Order to Cover Up Their Racism, Guilt, and Anxiety about Sexuality and Their Supremacy-Based Investment in Punishment From: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
This chapter expands the foundations of Conflict and Abuse through the surprising example of Canadian HIV criminalization, showing how the “moderate” presentation of a neoliberal … | Sarah Schulman | 28 | 2016 | $0.56 Add |
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From  Hotel of Last ResortFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … | Travis Lupick | 34 | 2017 | $1.02 Add |
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From  Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From  The Power of soundHistory and Biology From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The … | Mari K Swingle | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The unbearable whiteness of being (an environmentalist) |
Aknowledging his perspective as a white, heterosexual man, the author examines social crises being amplified by a colonialism and systemic racism, and their intersection with the climate crisis, … | Arno Kopecky | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Why Impermanence MattersFrom: Common Threads |
Most creative projects made with green waste and natural materials are meant to have a short life-span and then return to the earth. This goes against everything a Western European sensibility … | Sharon Kallis | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  World InscapeFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter discusses how emotions are embodied, and how the inward feelings of organisms are accessible through their bodily presence. | Andreas Weber | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add |
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From  A Question of SpiritFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Christopher Wallace K. | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From Affective NeuroscienceFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body. | Andreas Weber | 30 | 2016 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint |
This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away … | Sami Grover | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From Jail for Heroin Users Ramps Up: The 1950sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter explores the increase in convictions under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act in the 1950s and discusses the Oakalla Prison Farm and the Mimico Reformatory in Ontario, where some … | Susan C. Boyd | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Let’s get drunk and celebrate the future |
This chapter is a call to change the world to a sustainable one through celebration. A world that uses our creative energy and intelligence and ambition and puts it wherever we want, other than … | Arno Kopecky | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From OverpoweredThe Fine Mess We've Gotten Ourselves Into From: Power |
In this chapter the author focuses primarily on power dilemmas that are less frequently discussed, but that may be even more important for us to understand, especially in the 21st century. These … | Richard Heinberg | 60 | 2021 | $6.00 Add |
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From The Biological ScienceWhat's Really Going on in Our Brains? From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at … | Mari K Swingle | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
