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This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas

Orlan and Stelarc both work with the body as the primary medium for their art and both, in their very different ways, are interested in redesigning the body. Their experiments depart radically from popular and traditional ways of imagining enhanced forms of human embodiment and, in a climate of intense speculation about the future of the body, their ideas offer some important provocations. As performance artists, Orlan and Stelarc explore embodiment through enactment in ways that evade the stock formulations of cultural anxiety and open up fundamental questions about the nature and meanings of the human body, questions that are too easily foreclosed by over-heated imaginings about the `posthuman' condition.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The politics of human nature -- 2. Neoliberalism: A brief history -- 3. Dispossession -- 4. Commonwealth and common wealth -- 5. Regional recovery -- 6. The quality of work -- Conclusion: Commons sense -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Jane Goodall - best known for her ground-breaking work on the chimpanzees of Gombe (Tanzania) - has been an influential thinker and writer about wildlife management for many decades. In this short paper, she identifies and summarises some of the critical factors that put wildlife at risk. Quoting from her experience, she illustrates graphically how tourism can either contribute positively to consumer attitudes and conservation efforts or else act as a disruptive, even destructive force.

During the past decade there has been a rapid growth in literature on traumatic experience, but what remains missing from the expanding field of commentary is any sustained consideration of how those who are outsiders to the experience deal with the challenge of its presence in their world. Related to this are some fundamental questions about how traumatic events are acknowledged in the public domain and come to form part of the fabric of public memory. The contributing writers to this collection are primarily from humanities and cultural history, though there are also essays from specialists in psychology and the social sciences, and interviews with professionals who have a primary involvement with traumatic events. Contributions focus on key traumatic media events of the last decade as well as those during the twentieth century in countries such as the USA, Europe, Japan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Cuba and Australia.

"Looking at the headlines--the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with moving and inspirational stories and photographs from Jane's remarkable career, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today. While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure. The second book in the Global Icons Series--which launched with the instant classic The Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu--The Book of Hope is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future. There is still hope, and this book will help guide us to it"--

Rezension (ekz): Während unsere Lebensmittel immer billiger werden, steigen die Kosten, die die Allgemeinheit dafür bezahlen muss: nämlich Naturzerstörung, Artensterben, Klimawandel usw. Der chilenisch-österreichische Ökonom und Publizist möchte in seinem Buch vor allem aufklären über diese durch heile Werbewelten verdeckten Zusammenhänge und die realen Prozesse in der Agrarwirtschaft transparent machen. Dabei verpackt er die Sachinformation in einen persönlichen Stil, vermeidet Schuldzuweisungen, versteht sich eher als Vermittler zwischen Konsument und Produzent. Die regionalen und weltpolitischen, Agrar- und Handelspolitik betreffenden Zusammenhänge werden aber verständlich und gut lesbar dargestellt. Erst in den letzten 50 Seiten wird nach und nach deutlich, dass er mit dem Buch für seine 2018 initiierte Kampagne für ein Tierschutz-Volksbegehren in Österreich wirbt. Dem deutschen Leser werden die Hintergründe seines Rückzugs aus der Politik und damit verbundene Querelen, auf die er anspielt, nicht geläufig sein. - Als informativer, Hintergrundwissen vermittelnder Appell für eine Agrarwende dennoch zu empfehlen

"An exploration of the global meaning of food and what all of us can do to exercise power over the food industry and, ultimately, our environment"--Provided by the publisher