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  • BUILDING THE CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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    BUILDING THE CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    HANS A. BAER / MERRILL SINGER
    This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis. The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the cultural ecological and the cultural interpretive perspectives. Guided by these, the authors take a firm stance...

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  • THE CORPORATIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES
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    THE CORPORATIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES
    HANS BAER
    Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities – corporatisation and environmental sustainability – this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible. Hans A Baer argues that this contradiction is unavoidable because of the capitalist parameters in which they operate, including a commitment to on-going economic growth which contributes to social ineq...

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  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND CAPITALISM IN AUSTRALIA
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    CLIMATE CHANGE AND CAPITALISM IN AUSTRALIA
    HANS A. BAER
    Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country, Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to ...

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  • AIRPLANES, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
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    AIRPLANES, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
    HANS A. BAER
    The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on the sector’s environmental impact and the challenges facing attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines how airplanes have become a key component of modern c...

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  • CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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    CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
    MERRILL SINGER / HANS BAER
    The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology, critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces, including the exercise of power, in shaping health,...

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  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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    THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    HANS A. BAER / MERRILL SINGER
    In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents ...

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  • GLOBAL WARMING AND THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF HEALTH
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    GLOBAL WARMING AND THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF HEALTH
    HANS BAER / MERRILL SINGER
    In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming. Using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences, they present ecosyndemics as a ...

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  • COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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    COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
    HANS BAER
    In the late nineteenth century on the eve of the formation of Australia as a nation-state in 1902, the Australian medical system could be best described as a pluralistic one in the sense that while regular medicine constituted the predominant medical system, it was not clearly the dominant one in that regular physicians faced competition from a wide array of alternative practit...

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