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02389aam a2200265Mi 4500 001 900B0BCED86211EEAA654C8140ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240302010027 008 231103s2024 ilu e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9798888900581 020 $a 1642599700 020 $a 9781642599701 035 $a (OCoLC)1416718301 040 $a CNWPU $b eng $e rda $c CNWPU $d YDX $d SFR $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a d------ 100 1 $a Dawson, Ashley, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a Environmentalism from below : $b how global people's movements are leading the fight for our planet / $c Ashley Dawson. 264 1 $a Chicago, IL : $b Haymarket Books, $c 2024. 300 $a 319 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: a global people's movement -- Decolonizing food -- Urban climate insurgency -- Reclaiming the energy commons -- Against fortress conservation -- Climate debt and border abolition -- Appendix: Universal declaration of rights of Mother Earth -- Appendix: People's agreement of Cochabamba. 520 $a "Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities--among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis--have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds. Today, as the world's forests burn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth. Scholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative of these movements of climate insurgents, from international solidarity organizations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers International to local struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India, Nigeria, and beyond. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world--food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation--Dawson shows how the unruly power of environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path forward, from challenging industrial agriculture through fights for food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using mass nonviolent protest and sabotage"-- $c Amazon. 941 $a 1 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240302010702.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=900B0BCED86211EEAA654C8140ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search