ISBN:
9781315731100
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 215 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental humanities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Environmental history of modern migrations
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Global environmental change Social aspects
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Environmental degradation Social aspects
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Migration, Internal Environmental aspects
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Emigration and immigration Environmental aspects
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Migration
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Umwelt
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Klimaänderung
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Geschichte 1800-2012
Abstract:
Environmental History of Modern Migrations- Front Cover -- Environmental History of Modern Migrations -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: migrants in environmental history -- Histories in the present tense -- Beyond conquistadores and Her Majesty's subjects -- EHM: a toolkit -- Around the world in eleven chapters -- References -- PART I: Changing natures -- Chapter 1: Waves of migration: settlement and creation of the Hawaiian environment -- Abstract -- Setting the scene -- Polynesian arrival and settlement -- Europeans and North Americans-contact and settlement -- Labor migration and Asian settlers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: European immigration and changes in the landscape of southern Brazil -- Abstract -- Introduction-Europeans in the forest -- European visions of the forest and the settling -- Concerns of deforestation and sawmills -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Migrants and the making of the American landscape -- Abstract -- Migrants' metabolism -- Nature in a stranger mirror -- Through their bodies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Making the land Russian? Migration, settlement, and environment in the Russian Far East 1860-1914 -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Migration to Primor'e: an overview -- Typhoons, bugs, and tigers -- Compromises, adaptations, and cooperation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Coal lives: body, work and memory among Italian miners in Wallonia, Belgium -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The contested memory of Wallonia and the role of Italian miners -- Peri-urban aesthetics and xenophobic spatialization -- The living maps: miners' economy of the body -- Imaginary landscapes and alternative ecologies -- Conclusions -- Notes
Abstract:
References -- PART II: Racializing natures -- Chapter 6: Riotous environments: Filipino immigrants in the fields of California -- Abstract -- If iceberg lettuce could speak. . . -- Riots in Watsonville, California, 1930 -- Environmental nativism and the fields of California -- Lettuce -- Labor competition? -- Did lettuce cause a race riot? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Creating the threatening "others": environment, Chinese immigrants and racist discourse in colonial Australia -- Abstract -- Chinese immigrants in Australian Environmental History -- "Water grievance" and the rise of anti-Chinese propaganda -- Chinese contribution to agricultural industries and the decline of racist discourse -- Environmentally threatening "others" in urban areas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Nativist politics and environmental privilege: ecological and cultural conflicts concerning Latin American migration to the United States -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Immigrants in the U.S. environment -- Aspen, Colorado, and the Roaring Fork Valley -- Nativist environmental organizing in Aspen -- Challenging environmental privilege -- Conclusion: making sense of Aspen -- References -- PART III: Naturalizing causes -- Chapter 9: Environmental degradation as a cause of migration: cautionary tales from Brazil -- Abstract -- The importance of definitions -- The cautionary tale of the Brazilian Northeast and the creation of "the drought industry" -- "Drought victims" into the Amazon: a new frontier of obfuscation -- The danger of categorization: the precarious fate of environmental refugees -- Note -- References -- Chapter 10: The ecological and social vulnerability of the Three Gorges resettlement area in China, 1992-2012 -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The plan of the Three Gorges resettlement and the law of unintended consequences
Abstract:
Ecological and social vulnerability in the Three Gorges relocation area -- The impoundment of the Three Gorges dam: from project resettlers to ecological resettlers and homeless people -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11: Archaeologies of the future: tracing the lineage of contemporary discourses on the climate-migration nexus -- Abstract -- Moving climates - growing concerns -- The presence of the future, the absence of the past -- CM's prehistory, or the ecology of class hatred -- History - population and Northern environmentalism -- The ascension of climate change -- The contemporary phase - CM goes mainstream -- Back to the future -- Notes -- References -- Index
Note:
"Earthscan from Routledge"--Front cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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