Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james fairhead

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  • GREEN GRABBING: A NEW APPROPRIATION OF NATURE
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH / IAN SCOONES
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental gr...

    $1,560.00

  • VACCINE ANXIETIES
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH
    This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly g...

    $1,160.00

  • REFRAMING DEFORESTATION
    JAMES FAIRHEAD / MELISSA LEACH
    This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of de...

    $2,220.00