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I wasn't sure that a book about a dog 'with the saddest eyes' would work for me as I don't tend to like adult books about animals, though I am an animal fan. However as that dog is the Timoleon Vieta of the title I knew I would be on a journey with him so I would have to leave my preconceived ideas somewhere else. I am glad I did as within about ten pages I was smitten with Timoleon Vieta (apart from the name which when you have to read it that often gets a little much) and quite wanted him as a pet of my own. Onto the story though.
Timoleon Vieta is the best friend, quite literally, of the composer Cockroft after he appears at the window of his Italian Villa one day. Cockroft a lover of animals, though with a bad history in owning dogs, cannot resist his eyes and so keeps him and spoils him rotten and the two become the perfect companions. That is until 'The Bosnian' arrives. Cockroft has a habit of giving out his card (along with a rather sexual quip) to good looking young men in the hope of long lasting affairs; he doesn't expect them to follow it up, especially when they are straight. However as The Bosnian wants a free life where he can be happily bored for days on end he is willing to go to any lengths to get it, he just has to get that damned dog that hates him out of the way and one night after getting Cockroft drunk the dog is taken to Rome and bumped.
This is when the second half of the book kicks in and though we still read of Cockroft and his wicked Bosnian houseboy we end up following Timoleon Vieta as he makes his way home and surviving. We also are brought into the lives of those he meets and their fascinating stories in the Italian villages and towns. From a tale of star crossed lovers, a spurned Welsh girl after a holiday romance gone bad, to a man left with his dead wife's child from another relationship these are all short tales of love, loss and betrayal and all of them are stunning.
What I liked was how Rhodes got into the head of a gay man, and did it very well. In some ways Cockroft is a little stereotypical but in the main he is just an elderly man who is a little bit naïve and is looking for love and so ends up with rather rose tinted spectacles one. I think it's great when straight authors write gay characters and even gay sex; gay authors do it the opposite way round fairly often. Interestingly looking at reviews on a certain site a lot of people found the sex scene put them off the book which to me seems a sad state of affairs. Hey ho though what can you do?
I really enjoyed this book. There is a shock ending that I should mention as it has been slated on certain sites for it. I found the ending shocking but then sometimes we need to be shocked and sometimes books shouldn't end the way we the reader want them too. I won't say anymore because I don't want to give anything away, if you have read it and want to discuss it drop me an email as wouldn't want to give any spoilers out on here.

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Whether you are a new to Ashdown and want to meet new people and/or get involved or whether you have been here a few years and just want to give back to our community at Ashdown, volunteering is definitely the way to do those things. Through volunteering, you can learn cool new things you never even realized you wanted to know! Things such as cutting different types of fruit (not all are cut the same way), setting up Ashdown's giant speakers, making guacamole from scratch, making pancakes, grilling, learning about different culture's foods and whatever else our officers think of and need help with.
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Houston Truong, who runs The Trading Edge website, was kind enough to interview me for his Trading Edges Podcast. You can listen using the player above or read the transcript here. This is the first interview I've done – so thank you Houston for giving me the opportunity to talk about my trading.
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Rang De's work with rural women shows that they are instinctive entrepreneurs! Avid biker and former actor, Aditya Raj Kapoor now sets out on a 6-day #fightpoverty ride to support Rang De's women entrepreneurs.
"I'm proud to serve India through Rang De. I hope this will be a ride to remember. Biking for me, is more than just a passion and being on the road for a cause makes the journey sweeter," says Aditya Raj Kapoor, a former corporate honcho and avid biker.
Aditya Raj Kapoor has embarked on a ride on March 30th, on behalf of Rang De, a not-for-profit organization based out of Bangalore. Accompanying him on this ride is Deepak Ananth, CEO of ScoutMyTrip, a Mumbai-based trip planner for road travellers.
Aditya is on this 1200 kilometers, 6 day-long bike ride from Mumbai to Pusad in Yavatmal district. As Aditya Raj Kapoor makes his way through the villages of Yavatmal in Maharashtra, he is meeting 3 women who have availed the loan from Rang De.
Yasminbano Ajahar, Rama Keshav Bodade and Jayshree Surendra More are just three of over 50,000 women from rural India who are now able to run businesses after availing micro-loans through Rang De. A year back, twenty people pooled in Rs 15,000 to support these women and they have already repaid two-thirds of their obligations to these social investors.
Talking about his ride, Aditya says, "Funding a woman to run her business will not only make her financially independent, it will also ensure that the entire family leads a dignified life." Click here to get a glimpse of the 6 day-long #FightPoverty ride.
Born to actors Shammi Kapoor (Junglee, Andaz, Brahmachari) and Geeta Bali, Aditya is a former actor and filmmaker. Aditya successfully operated a truck and warehouse business and also a construction company. Now retired, he regularly partakes in travel-related philanthropic efforts. In 2014, he participated in the bike-ride – India Hai – that covered several Indian states, Nepal and Bhutan in a bid to get everyone to discover India first before heading to foreign shores.
"We are thrilled to have Aditya Raj Kapoor join the #FightPoverty ride as its ambassador. A retired corporate honcho, Aditya is now a writer and an avid biker. He is keen to help us create some buzz and bring in investors who will help us raise Rs 4,00,000. The money raised can potentially fund about 85 women entrepreneurs from the same district and Aditya will also show the lives and challenges of women in rural India through social media. Aditya joins a community of 12,000+ Indians who do a lot more than contributing money on our platform," states Smita Ram, Co-Founder & Managing Trustee, Rang De.
Along the way, Aditya will also meet members of Samagra Gram Vikas Sanstha (Sagras), a social development organisation founded in August 1998 with the support of the Ratan Tata Trust. Since February 2009, Sagras has helped raise capital for over 8,000 women in the Vidarbha region.
"Women who take these loans are trained for a month in financial literacy and business planning so they can utilise the funds appropriately for their businesses," says Sagras Founder Madhukar Bhangey. "Even after disbursing the money, we keep in touch with these women to ensure the money has been put to proper use."
Such holistic focus on women development through impactful rural partners has enabled Rang De to achieve a stellar 93% repayment rate over the years on collateral-free loans.
Rang De is working to fight poverty by providing microloans to underserved communities. It empowers individuals and corporations to lend to rural entrepreneurs across the country and help them step out of poverty. Constantly striving to bridge the gap between rural & urban India, Rang De has raised over 55,000 loans totalling over INR 54 crores, from over 12000 individual social investors and 25+ corporate partners.
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Barnes & Noble has completely redesigned the Nook. The new version is ultra light, at under 8 ounces, and claims a battery life of up to two months. It has the same e-Ink pearl technology that makes it very easy to read, with a 6-inch touch screen display that is very crisp and very easy to read, even in the brightest of sunlight. Page turn times have been minimized and scrolling through pages can be done very quickly.
The new form factor looks easier to hold, with a recessed area on the back side.
There are over 2 million books available for the Nook, many classics are free and there are also newspapers and magazines available. As with the previous Nook, you can make the text easy to read for almost anyone, with a huge range of sizes. There's a sample of the customizable font sizes here.
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Featured Blogger: Amber Ortega – ThriftyNinja.com
Our Featured Latina Mom Blogger, Amber Ortega is the Founder and Editor of Thrifty Ninja. A New Mexico mami of three, she enjoys sharing her broad interests with her readers. Amber not only stays busy managing her blog and three children, but she is also committed to giving back to her community. We're thrilled to have had the opportunity to work with her on a variety of Latina Mom Bloggers campaigns. You can follow Amber on Twitter @ThriftyNinja, or by "Liking" her Facebook page Thrifty Ninja.
Here is our interview with her:
○ When did you start blogging? I began blogging as a guest blogger for other blogs in 2006, and launched Thrifty Ninja in 2010.
○ How did you start blogging? After my youngest child was born, I decided that I wanted to stay home to care for my children. However, I still needed to contribute to the family financially so I found a job working from home for a search engine company. I loved the work and stayed on for over a year until the jobs were cut and outsourced. Fortunately by meeting so many amazing people, I was given the opportunity to become a writer for several large blogging companies. I loved writing and decided it was something I wanted to do for myself. I had always been good at finding deals and wanted to start a blog to help others save money. I started as a coupon-only blog and soon realized that I had a lot more I wanted to write about. Now I focus on a variety of subjects, from crafts to food to fashion and everything in between!
○ What do you believe helps differentiate your blog from others? Me — I am what makes my blog different! I write about what I care about, what is happening in my life or things that I find interesting. I love sharing my thoughts, ideas, joys and frustrations with my readers.
○ Tell us about your audience and what kind of content and information are they are looking for. Most of my readers are mothers from a variety of different backgrounds. My readers seem to enjoy posts about my family, but the most popular are the product reviews and giveaways. My readers love giveaways and I always get a lot of engagement for those types of posts.
○ How do brands work with you to reach your audience? I work with several brands on a variety of campaigns including sponsored posts, ambassador programs, and giveaways.
○ Do you ever refuse to review products you don't use or believe in? Yes. If I feel that a product doesn't fit with my site, beliefs, values or if it's a product I just don't believe in I don't accept the opportunity. I want my readers to trust the content that I develop and believe in what I share. I won't provide a good review or endorse a brand that I won't use for my family or myself.
○ Do you support any particular non-profit organization or cause through your blog? Yes. I have written about several non-profits and causes, although there aren't any that I support exclusively. I do work with a local non-profit here in New Mexico, so I do develop posts about different events that we host. I put a lot of my time into Dream BIG and believe in the organization. I love being able to share something that I'm so passionate about with my readers.
○ Do you have news about any recent or upcoming campaign news that you would like to share? I recently spoke at Hispanicize 2012 on the "How to Stumbleupon + Pinterest Traffic to Your Blog or Website" panel. I was also recently selected to be a member of the Britax Latina Advisory Board along with several other influential Latina mom bloggers. It's been an honor to have the opportunity to work with a respectable brand like Britax.
○ What advice would you have for a Latina who is thinking about starting a blog but may not know where/how to begin? What can you tell them about maintaining balance between home and work? Blogging is something that works best when you really think about your passions before you start. What do you want from your blog? What is it going to do for you? Are you starting a blog as a place to share your stories, to help others or to vent? There are so many options, but make sure that you find a reason to blog that you are passionate about.
It can also be hard to find a balance between home and work. If blogging is your full-time job (as it is for many), you may need to spend some evening time writing or a weekend at an event. This goes back to the passion. If you enjoy what you are doing, you make it work and you find time for everything. If you are just writing as a "job", you may find it more difficult to make time for your blog.
○ Do you have Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or other social media contact information you would like to share?
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/thriftyninja
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/thriftyninja
- Pinterest: http://pinterst.com/amberortega
- Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/111656282670617160153/
- StumbleUpon: http://stumbleupon.com/stumbler/thriftyninja
○ If you weren't a full time blogger, what other field can you see yourself working in? Well, blogging is my full time job, but I also work on a number of other things! I'm an event coordinator for a local non-profit (Dream BIG) and am on the Board of Directors for the ABQWest Chamber of Commerce. I think if I weren't blogging, I'd probably just divide my time up between those two. Between the three, I stay pretty busy!
○ What is the best book you've recently read and why?
Honestly, I've never been much of a reader. I did recently get Hunger Games for my TouchPad, and have been hooked ever since. I saw the movie and was told the books were better. I must admit that I love the books now.
○ What is your favorite life or business quote?
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
– Benjamin Franklin, Inventor
○ Can you share what is the most important business habit you have?
I would have to say it is my organization. If you aren't organized things can get lost or forgotten. There was a time where I was allowing things to slip through the cracks so to speak because I wasn't being an organized as I should be. I soon realized that doing that was hurting myself and I needed to get in gear. I have spreadsheets for everything and lists of what I need to do, when they are due or when I am expecting payments. It really helps my sanity because otherwise I am running around last minute trying to get things done.
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August 2012
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E., & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds)
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here fundamental relational modes that are being tested in the face of change, presenting groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in shamanic societies and contributing to our global understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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February 2019
At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)
Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)
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April 2020
Beyond Wild and Tame
Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape
Oehler, A. C.
Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. Following herder-hunters of the Eastern Saian Mountains in southern Siberia, the author examines how Soiot and Tofa households embrace unpredictability, recognize sentience, and encourage autonomy in all their relations with animals, spirits, and land features. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.
Subject: Environmental Studies (General)
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July 2020
Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.
Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in large numbers. In Malta, thousands of hunters share a shrinking countryside. They also rub shoulders with a strong bird-protection and conservation lobby. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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April 2017
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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October 2018
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland, E.
Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms. Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies
eBook available
March 2016
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Ness, S. A.
As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and performative study of Yosemite visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. By grounding a novel "eco-semiotic" analysis in the lived reality of parkgoers, it forges surprising connections, assembling a collective account that will be of interest to disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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November 2012
Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Gissibl B., Höhler, S. & Kupper, P. (eds)
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Heritage Studies
eBook available
February 2020
Colonial Seeds in African Soil
A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone
Munro, P.
"Empire forestry"—the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century—may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in twentieth-century colonial Sierra Leone. While giving careful attention to topics such as forest reservation and exploitation, the volume moves beyond conservation practices and discourses, attending to the overlapping social, economic, and political contexts that have shaped approaches to forest management over time.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present
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June 2020
Conservation's Roots
Managing for Sustainability in Preindustrial Europe, 1100–1800
Dowling, A. P. & Keyser, R. (eds)
The ideas and practices that comprise "conservation" are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation's Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.
Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available
September 2016
Contextualizing Disaster
Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
eBook available
December 2015
Cycling and Recycling
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Oldenziel, R. & Trischler, H. (eds)
Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies
eBook available
October 2017
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Baer, H. A.
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available
October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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March 2016
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Dorondel, S.
The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation's forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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December 2015
Ecological Migrants
The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders
Xie, Y.
Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China's Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China's modernization and development policies and more recently by ecological policies that aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. Xie reflects on modernization and urbanization in China through this study of ecological migration policies and their effects on relocated Aoluguya Ewenki hunters.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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September 2018
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
Henfrey, T. B.
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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July 2012
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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April 2013
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Lockyer, J. & Veteto, J. R. (eds)
In order to move global society towards a sustainable "ecotopia," solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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August 2008
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Markham, W. T.
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating and sometimes dramatic story of these organizations from their origins at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, not only describing how they reacted to powerful social movements, including the homeland protection and socialist movements in the early years of the twentieth century, the Nazi movement, and the anti-nuclear and new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s, but also examining strategies for survival in periods like the current one, when environmental concerns are not at the top of the national agenda. Previous analyses of environmental organizations have almost invariably viewed them as parts of larger social structures, that is, as components of social movements, as interest groups within a political system, or as contributors to civil society. This book, by contrast, starts from the premise that through the use of theories developed specifically to analyze the behavior of organizations and NGOs we can gain additional insight into why environmental organizations behave as they do.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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June 2010
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans' use of food plants and medicinal herbs. In spite of monumental changes introduced in the Age of Discovery and Mercantile Capitalism, some communities, often of immigrants in foreign lands, continue to hold on to old recipes and traditions, while others have adopted and enculturated exotic plants and remedies into their diets and pharmacopoeia in new and creative ways. Now in the 21st century, in the age of the European Union and Globalization, European folk botany is once again dynamically responding to changing cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors and studies presented in this book reflect work being conducted across Europe's many regions. They tell the story of the on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet, and explore new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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February 2003
Ethnographies of Conservation
Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege
Anderson, D. & Berglund, E. (eds)
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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May 2015
Fault Lines
Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Parrinello, G.
Earth's fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Messina, Italy, in 1908 and in the Belice Valley, Sicily, in 1968. Following the history of these places before and after their destruction, this book explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins. These stories explore fault lines between "rural" and "urban," "backwardness" and "development," and "before" and "after," shedding light on the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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August 2009
Gardening the World
Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water
Strang, V.
Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ecosystems are being severely degraded. These problems are particularly evident in Australia, with its industrialised economy and arid climate. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to examine the social and cultural complexities that underlie people's engagements with water. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two major Australian river catchments (the Mitchell River in Cape York, and the Brisbane River in southeast Queensland), this book examines their major water using and managing groups: indigenous communities, farmers, industries, recreational and domestic water users, and environmental organisations. It explores the issues that shape their different beliefs, values and practices in relation to water, and considers the specifically cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode in their material surroundings. Through an analysis of each group's diverse efforts to 'garden the world', it provides insights into the complexities of human-environmental relationships.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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March 2018
Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)
Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students, as well as policy and community leaders, find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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May 2017
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Riese, J.
In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling. Opposition to commercial whaling has inspired many of the organization's most dramatic and high-profile "direct actions"—as well as some of its most notable failures. This book provides an inside look at one such instance: Greenpeace's decades-long campaign against the Norwegian whaling industry. Combining historical narrative with systems-theory analysis, author Juliane Riese shows how the organization's self-presentation as a David pitted against whale-butchering Goliaths was turned on its head. She recounts how opponents successfully discredited the campaign while Greenpeace struggled with internal disagreements and other organizational challenges, providing valuable lessons for other protest movements.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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August 2019
Hazardous Chemicals
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)
Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted. Each study situates chemical hazards in a long-term and transnational framework and demonstrates the importance of considering both the natural and the social contexts in which their histories have unfolded.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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October 2014
Hunters, Predators and Prey
Inuit Perceptions of Animals
Laugrand, F. & Oosten†, J.
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered 'prey par excellence': the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as 'inua' (owner) and 'tarniq' (shade) over European concepts such as 'spirit 'and 'soul', the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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October 2018
Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
Herzberg, J., Kehr, C., & Torma, F. (eds)
The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of "East" and "West."
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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September 2016
In the Name of the Great Work
Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Olšáková, D. (ed)
Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature." Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalin's death, however, these attempts at "transformation"—which relied upon ideologically corrupted and pseudoscientific theories—had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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June 2017
Indigeneity and the Sacred
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)
This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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December 2016
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Kaiser, W. & Meyer, J.-H. (eds)
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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February 2010
Landscape Ethnoecology
Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space
Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)
Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of place," or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective. In this volume, indigenous and local understandings of landscape are investigated in order to better understand how human communities relate to their terrestrial and aquatic resources. The contributors go beyond the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) literature and offer valuable insights on ecology and on land and resources management, emphasizing the perception of landscape above the level of species and their folk classification. Focusing on the ways traditional people perceive and manage land and biotic resources within diverse regional and cultural settings, the contributors address theoretical issues and present case studies from North America, Mexico, Amazonia, tropical Asia, Africa and Europe.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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April 2009
Landscape, Process and Power
Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Heckler, S. (ed)
In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe TEK or that incorporating it into development projects will improve the physical, social or economic well-being of marginalized peoples. The contributors to this volume argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the historical and political forces that have shaped it, as well as people's day-to-day engagement with the landscape around them must be taken into account. TEK thus emerges, not as an easily translatable tool for development experts, but as a rich and complex element of contemporary lives that should be defined and managed by indigenous and local peoples themselves.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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September 2012
Landscapes Beyond Land
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Árnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J. & Whitehouse, A. (eds)
Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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September 2016
Life as a Hunt
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Marks, S. A.
The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia's central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness and challenges of colonialism. Their homeland, a slender corridor surrounded by three national parks and an escarpment, is a microcosm of the political, economic and cultural battlefields surrounding most African protected areas today. The story of the Valley Bisa diverges from the myths that conservationists, administrators, and philanthropists, tell about Africa's environmental and wildlife crises.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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February 2018
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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February 2018
Managing Northern Europe's Forests
Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology
Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)
Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region's woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present. Each explores the complex interrelationships of state-building, resource management, knowledge transfer, and trade over a period characterized by ongoing modernization and evolving environmental awareness.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century
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March 2014
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Uekötter, F. & Lübken, U. (eds)
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress: these essays suggest more of a dialectical relationship between knowledge and ignorance that has different shapes and trajectories. With its combination of empirical case studies and theoretical reflection, the essays make a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on the production and resilience of ignorance. At the same time, this volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General)
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April 2009
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia
Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Alexiades, M. N. (ed)
Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This original and thought-provoking collection of case studies examines some of the ways in which migration, and the concomitant processes of ecological and social change, have shaped and continue to shape human-environment relations in Amazonia. Drawing on a wide range of historical time frames (from pre-conquest times to the present) and ethnographic contexts, different chapters examine the complex and important links between migration and the classification, management, and domestication of plants and landscapes, as well as the incorporation and transformation of environmental knowledge, practices, ideologies and identities.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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July 2007
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies
Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
Ellen, R. (ed)
The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Niño), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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July 2016
The Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Gissibl, B.
Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.
Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)
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May 2008
Nature of the Miracle Years
Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Chaney, S.
After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context. Forced to change by necessity, those involved in state-sponsored conservation institutionalized and professionalized their efforts, while several private groups became more confrontational in their message and tactics. Through their steady and often conservative presence within the mainstream of West German society, conservationists ensured that by 1970 the map of the country was dotted with hundreds of reserves, dozens of nature parks, and one national park. In doing so, they assured themselves a strong position to participate in, rather than be excluded from, the left-leaning environmental movement of the 1970s.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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July 2019
Planning for the Planet
Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980
Schleper, S.
During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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September 2010
Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Hsu, E. & Harris, S. (eds)
Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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January 2014
Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Boudia, S. & Jas, N. (eds)
In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a reconsideration of the roles of scientific knowledge and expertise in the definition and management of toxic issues, which this book seeks to do. It looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology
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April 2015
Reclaiming the Forest
The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya
Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)
The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as "keepers of reindeer" as they engage in ethnic tourism and exchange experiences with their Ewenki neighbors in Russian Siberia. Though to some their future seems problematic, this book focuses on the present, challenging the pessimistic outlook, reviewing current issues, and describing the efforts of the Ewenki to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods. Both academic and literary contributions balance the volume written by authors who are either indigenous to the region or have carried out fieldwork among the Aoluguya Ewenki since the late 1990s.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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February 2012
Saltwater Sociality
A Melanesian Island Ethnography
Schneider, K.
The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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August 2014
Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world's insatiable CO2 emitting energy demands, and has built unsustainable conurbations with water supplies dependent on energy hungry desalination plants and deep aquifers pumped beyond natural replenishment rates. Sustainable Development has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America -- including social and natural scientists, environmentalists and economists, architects and planners -- to discuss topics such as sustainable natural resource use and urbanization, industrial and technological development, economy and politics, history and geography.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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May 2018
Taking on Technocracy
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Augustine, D. L.
The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times—the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, and scientific elites. Taking on Technocracy gives a brisk account of this dramatic historical moment, showing how the popularization of scientific knowledge fostered new understandings of technological risk. Combining analyses of social history, popular culture, social movement theory, and histories of science and technology, it offers a compelling narrative of a key episode in the recent history of popular resistance.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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February 2016
Transactions with the World
Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
O'Brien, A.
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the "New Hollywood" films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly "grounded" cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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December 2007
Traveling Cultures and Plants
The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations
Pieroni, A. & Vandebroek, I. (eds)
The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies.
Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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May 2017
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often better understood as people-people conflict, wherein there is a clash of values between different human groups. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners from across the globe to develop a holistic view of these interactions. It considers the political and social dimensions of 'human-wildlife conflicts' alongside effective methodological approaches, and will be of value to academics, conservationists and policy makers.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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October 2009
Unveiling the Whale
Discourses on Whales and Whaling
Kalland†, A.
Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book, the first of its kind, is therefore not about whales and whaling per se but about how people communicate about whales and whaling. It contributes to a better understanding and discussion of controversial environmental issues: Why and how are issues selected? How is knowledge on these issues produced and distributed by organizations and activists? And why do affluent countries like Japan and Norway still support whaling, which is of insignificant economic importance? Basing his analysis on fieldwork in Japan and Norway and at the International Whaling Commission, the author argues how an image of a "superwhale" has been constructed and how this image has replaced meat and oil as the important whale commodity. He concludes that the whaling issue provides an arena where NGOs and authorities on each side can unite, swapping political legitimacy and building personal relations that can be useful on issues where relations are less harmonious.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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February 2016
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)
For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics, and various other social phenomena that have resulted. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History
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August 2010
Urban Pollution
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)
Re-examining Mary Douglas' work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It presents ethnographic case studies from a range of cities affected by globalization processes such as neoliberal urban policies, privatization of urban space, continued migration and spatialized ethnic tension. What has changed since the appearance of Purity and Danger? How have anthropological views on pollution changed accordingly? This volume focuses on cultural meanings and values that are attached to conceptions of 'clean' and 'dirty', purity and impurity, healthy and unhealthy environments, and addresses the implications of pollution with regard to discrimination, class, urban poverty, social hierarchies and ethnic segregation in cities.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Orttung, R. W.
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions. In doing so, it links the Arctic cities into a broader conversation about urban sustainability more generally.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies
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November 2009
Virtualism, Governance and Practice
Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)
Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects. This collection indicates that such an analysis appears to be justified from one perspective, but not from another. The chapters in this collection show that the critics, concerned with the power of these organizations to impose their policies in different parts of the world, appear justified when we look at environmentalist visions and at organizational policies and programs. However, they are much less justified when we look at the practical operation of such organizations and their ability to generate and carry out projects intended to reshape the world.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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September 2019
Water, Life, and Profit
Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M
Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Paying particular attention to two key groups of people who provide water to most of Niamey's residents - door-to-door water vendors, and those who sell water in one-half-liter plastic bags (sachets) on the street or in small shops – the authors offer new insights into how Niamey's water economies affect gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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November 2015
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Hastrup, K. & Hastrup. F. (eds)
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors' detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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May 2017
Wolf Conflicts
A Sociological Study
Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.
Wolf populations have recently made a comeback in Northern Europe and North America. These large carnivores can cause predictable conflicts by preying on livestock, and competing with hunters for game. But their arrivals often become deeply embedded in more general societal tensions, which arise alongside processes of social change that put considerable pressure on rural communities and on the rural working class in particular. Based on research and case studies conducted in Norway, Wolf Conflicts discusses various aspects of this complex picture, including conflicts over land use and conservation, and more general patterns of hegemony and resistance in modern societies.
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BISMARCK, North Dakota – With the Tucson Sugar Skulls' playoff future hanging in the balance, quarterback Matt Behrendt made a relief appearance and rallied the Skulls' to their third straight victory, 52-40, over the Bismarck Bucks.
Combined with a last-second Nebraska Danger loss to the Sioux Falls Storm, the Sugar Skulls' victory put them in sole possession of fifth place in the IFL with a 6-5 record. The top six teams make the playoffs.
"We knew it was going to be tough to come in here and play," said Head Coach Marcus Coleman. "Bismarck has been playing teams tough all year. It was just a matter of us finishing a game which I thought we did.
"We showed a lot of mental toughness and made the plays we needed to make to seal the game," Coleman said. "From a character standpoint, it was one of those team-building moments where we came together and finished the ball game." Behrendt, who has split starting duties with Jake Medlock, entered the game early in the fourth quarter after the Bucks took a 37-35 lead on a field goal set up by a Tucson fumble, the Sugar Skulls' only turnover of the game.
Behrendt drove the Sugar Skulls 38 yards in five plays to regain the lead, 42-37, scoring the go-ahead touchdown on a 2-yard run. The teams then traded field goals leading to a dramatic finish. With Tucson holding a 45-40 lead, the Sugar Skulls lined up to kick off after their field goal with 57 seconds left in the game. The kick by Josh Gable hit directly at the feet of a Bucks return man, bounced away, and Mike Jones recovered for the Sugar Skulls.
But there was more drama left. The Sugar Skulls were trying to run out the clock and were facing third down and 14 with 40 seconds left after being set back by a 15-yard penalty. Behrendt lined up under center, faked a handoff to Jones and found wide receiver Jeremiah Harris in the end zone from 30 yards away for the game-clinching touchdown.
"We knew what they were expecting so we dialed up that play and it was a great throw and catch," Coleman said. "Sometimes you've got to make those calls and seal the game. That was the moment that showed us the team got mentally tougher tonight."
The Sugar Skulls return home to face the unbeaten Arizona Rattlers on Saturday, May 25, for the first of back-to-back meetings split by an off week. Kickoff is 6 p.m. at Tucson Arena. It will be Military and First Responders Appreciation Night. The first 2,000 fans at the game will also receive a Sugar Skulls Rally Towel sponsored by Farhang & Medcoff. Gates will open at 5 p.m.
Notes & Numbers
- The two-headed quarterback of Medlock and Behrendt was an efficient 12 of 18 passing for 162The two-headed quarterback of Medlock and Behrendt was an efficient 12 of 18 passing for 162yards and five touchdowns. Medlock had four of the TD tosses, all in the first half, bringing his season total to 26.
- Harris joined the Sugar Skulls for their May 4 game against San Diego and made an immediate impact on kick returns. However, his big contribution against the Bucks came at wide receiver where he caught two touchdown passes, both in clutch situations. His first TD catch came with14 seconds left in the first half, on a 7-yard toss from Medlock. His second was the 30-yarder from Behrendt with 31 seconds left in the game.
- Jones rushed for 59 yards and scored two touchdowns, one rushing and one receiving. He entered the game leading the league averaging 60 yards rushing per game. He also had 51yards receiving.
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China relaunchesworld's fastest train
China's fleet of high-speed trains is set once again tobecome the world's fastest.
The top speed of the Fuxing or "rejuvenation"bullet trains was capped at 300 km/h (186 mph) in 2011 following two crashes thatkilled 40 people.
From next week, some of the trains will once again be allowedto run at a higher speed of about 350 km/h.
The higher maximum speed should cut about an hour off thejourney time between Beijing and Shanghai.
By 21 September, seven of China's bullet trains will bepermitted to travel at the increased maximum speed.
To mark the return of the higher-speed service, the trainshave been named "Fuxing" - Chinese for rejuvenation - in line with anational government slogan and development plan.
All the trains have been fitted with an improved monitoringsystem that will slow and stop the trains automatically in the event of anemergency.
The nation's rail operator is believed to be looking intoways to upgrade track to let the engines run even faster - perhaps at speedsapproaching 400km/h. China is believed to have about 19,960km (12,400 miles) ofhigh-speed rail tracks.
The 2011 crashes of the high-speed trains led to a stateinvestigation into the railways ministry which uncovered widespread corruption.
The probe meant many officials were charged with corruptionand abuse of power. Two senior officials were given suspended death sentences.
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Bruna Alves Ramos1+, Jannifer Oliveira Chiang2, Lívia Carício Martins2, Liliane Leal das Chagas2, Franko de Arruda e Silva2, Milene Silveira Ferreira2, Maria Nazaré Oliveira Freitas2, Bianca Nascimento de Alcantara2, Sandro Patroca da Silva2, Stefânia Araújo Miranda3, Barbara Alves Sepulvreda1, Layna Thayssa Guimarães Corrêa4, Andréa Maria Góes Negrão4, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos2, Alexandre do Rosário Casseb4
1Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Belém, PA, Brasil
2Instituto Evandro Chagas, Setor de Arbovirologia e Febres Hemorrágicas, Ananindeua, Pará, Brasil
3Parque Naturalístico Mangal das Garças, Setor Veterinário, Belém, PA, Brasil
4Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Instituto da Saúde e Produção Animal, Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Belém, PA, Brasil
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BACKGROUND In this study, we evaluated the role of free-living domestic pigeons (Columba livia) as a reservoir of arboviruses in the city of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil. We investigated the presence of antibodies against the most prevalent arboviruses.
OBJECTIVES This study was aimed at evaluating some clinical and physical parameters of domestic pigeons, including the presence of antibodies to Amazon-endemic arboviruses.
METHODS Eighty-five healthy pigeons were captured in Mangal das Garças Park, in Belém, and were bled. Upon capture, the birds were subjected to a clinical examination in search of alterations that could indicate the presence of arboviruses. Blood samples were converted to serum and tested using the haemagglutination inhibition (HI) technique with a panel of 19 antigens of arboviruses circulating in the Amazon. The confirmation assay for the positive reactions to the viral species tested by HI was a neutralisation test in new-born Swiss albino mice (Mus musculus) [mouse neutralisation test (MNT)].
FINDINGS A total of 10 (11.8%) serum samples tested positive for antiflavivirus antibodies by HI. All the samples positive for the HI test were subjected to MNT for detection of viruses and yielded negative results (logarithmic neutralisation index < 1.7).
MAIN CONCLUSION The results represent the first serological detection of antiarbovirus antibodies in domestic pigeons as potential hosts of arboviruses in Brazil. The detection of haemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies against genus Flavivirus indicated that there was recent contact between the analysed domestic pigeons and these arboviruses. Further studies are needed to evaluate the role of free-living pigeons in the maintenance cycle and spread of arboviruses in the Amazon.
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Received 13 January 2017
Accepted 22 March 2017


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You never forget the sights and sounds of a ride up the Canyon of Heroes, and Giants general manager Jerry Reese already has been in two of them with Eli Manning and coach Tom Coughlin.
But in the cutthroat world of the NFL, you also never forget the anguish of a season ending without an invitation to the Tournament and watching others play for the Lombardi Trophy three times in the past four years. You never forget watching an underachieving team that forgets how to Play Like Giants, especially down the stretch.
In and around the Quest Diagnostics Training Center, it is no longer merely a goal to push long and hard for a Super Bowl championship. It is now a mandate. A playoffs-or-bust mandate.
"I got a couple of numbers that have been bouncing around in my head," Reese said in a State Of The Giants Address. "The No. 1 number is 190 —that's 190 days 'till the Super Bowl is played in MetLife Stadium over there. That makes me think about the sense of urgency for our team. And the other number is the number 1. And that is, we've been to the playoffs one time in the last four years. That's really not acceptable for us. That's below our standards. That's not what we shoot for.
"We want to put everybody on notice — myself, everybody's on notice that that's not our standards."
The Giants have and will be made aware that it is 190 days and counting to Super Bowl XLVIII.
"We're going to put up in the locker room a countdown, so guys can see how urgent it is to be ready to go every week," Reese said. "You can't let games get away from you and expect to make it to the playoffs. So we've got to have a sense of urgency going into this season."
The Giants need no reminders their stadium, the one they share with the Jets, will play host to the first New York-New Jersey Super Bowl.
"It's a great motivator," Reese told The Post, "to look over there and say, 'Let's be the first team to go over there and play in your own stadium. We walk out here in practice every day, you look at that stadium, you know the Super Bowl is going to be there, so that's a great reminder for us every day."
During his first address to the 2013 Giants on Friday night, Coughlin brought up the site of Super Bowl XLVIII.
"He said that gives us added motivation, but you shouldn't have to look at that as your only motivation," one Giant said. "He even said, 'Even if it's on the moon, that should be where you want to be at the end of the year.'"
Coughlin showed a picture of Phil Mickelson holding his British Open trophy.
"He just had such horrible luck in the [U.S.]Opens, and he finally went out this past [British] Open and just took it," the Giant said.
Defensive coordinator Perry Fewell talked about getting back to physicality.
"The NFC East has been known for heavy run-stopping football," Fewell told his unit.
The inconsistency of the 2012 Giants was maddening to Reese, who added beef to the trenches by signing Cullen Jenkins and drafting Justin Pugh and Johnathan Hankins 1-2.
"At times last year we looked like a good football team, other times we looked like a bad football team," Reese said. "I want us to be consistent every week and look like that good football team."
It is not lost on Reese that so many Giants are on one-year deals.
"I think when guys are on one-year deals there is definitely a sense of urgency for them as well," Reese said. "If you want to continue to play in this league you have to play well. It's a high-performance business."
Jason- Pierre Paul has a pain-free back following surgery, but isn't certain he can be back for Week 1 in Dalllas.
"We think he can be a terrific player like he's been in the past and we expect that from him," Reese said. "But it's not only one, it's not a one-man team. We expect all of our defensive players to step up. Our defense has to get off the field. We didn't have a lot of three-and-outs last year. We need to get on the field and get off the field and our offense needs to score points. We need to score touchdowns."
Which means Hakeem Nicks has to stay healthy in a contract year for Manning to command an explosive offense.
"When you don't score points in this league it's hard to win," Reese said. "You can't score
17 points and expect to win and get into the playoffs. It seems like most of the rules are benefiting the offense. It's a little tougher for the defensive players because it seems like the fans want scoring, the National Football League wants a lot of scoring and no more boring football games. They don't want a slow soccer game. They want a lot of scoring. So all of the rules seem to benefit the offense. The number one thing the rules do is for safety, but the safety rules, they kind of benefit the offense the most when you look at them. At least from my perspective, it does."
To Reese, winning Super Bowl XLVI seems like a distant memory.
"Really nothing takes away the sting except getting in the Tournament and having a chance to win the Super Bowl," Reese said.
The 2009 Giants missed the playoffs with an 8-8 record. The 2010 Giants missed the playoffs with a 10-6 record. The 2012 Giants missed the playoffs with a 9-7 record.
"We've been close," Reese said, "but close is not good enough."
One hundred and eighty-nine days. And counting.


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| 12°C Belfast
Northern Ireland's best known ice cream maker Guido Morelli has passed away.
The 81-year-old died peacefully surrounded by his family in hospital.
The family owned business has ice-cream shops across Northern Ireland with their flagship store in Portstewart where they originated. It also supplies customers such as Spar, Tesco, Asda hotels and restaurants.
R.I.P our amazing Uncle Guido Morelli! We will miss your love, support, encouragement & good craic! Love you x pic.twitter.com/cYMPb2DLVg— Morelli's To Go! (@MorellisToGo) June 27, 2016
It's with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear Papa Guido. He passed away peacefully in Coleraine hospital yesterday.— Morelli's Ice Cream (@Morelli_1911) June 28, 2016
Paying tribute his family said Guido was at the helm of the family business and continued to work tirelessly.
"He worked tirelessly and came into the office every day, taking charge of developing new recipes. The business has created hundreds of ice cream flavours over the years under Guido's guidance, with mint chocolate chip being his favourite."
Guido's daughter Daniela Morelli said: "Dad was a much-loved and loving husband, father, nonno, bis nonno and friend to all who knew him. He always had a smile on his face and brought so much joy to everyone at the company and our incredible customers.
"We will miss him but our wonderful memories will keep him alive in our hearts."
Belfast Telegraph