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This book puts forward a radical, unorthodox thesis with respect to the Anthropocene, the philosophy of Deleuze/Guattari and education. This book analyses the Anthropocene for its unconscious drives and develops a parallel mode of education and social change.

"The first edition of this book (2014) was developed during a period of economic recovery from what has become known as the "Great Recession". Like many economic downturns, research has hiThe first edition of this book (2014) was developed during a period of economic recovery from what has become known as the "Great Recession". Like many economic downturns, research has highlighted that individuals with disabilities were disproportionately affected by the "Great Recession" and experienced more difficulty regaining access to the labor market. To highlight this disproportionate effect, the first edition's Preface highlighted a personal relationship that I developed with an individual who had diabetes and lost his job during the recession, and as a result started to experience the negative effects of unemployment both physically and psychologically. To date, this individual has not recovered physically, emotionally, and vocationally from losing his position as a seasonal laborer"--

In Irreconcilable Differences, author David Cole speculates that Americans may be living through the beginning of the devolution of the United States - a development that may unfold after our lifetimes, although it could happen sooner. Is contemporary America an example of the Aristotelian phenomenon of "coming into being and passing away"?.

Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction / 1. The Physical Science of Climate Change / 2. The Economics of Climate Change / 3. Values in Climate Politics / 4. The Moral Foundations of Climate Action / 5. Crosscutting Issues in Climate Ethics / 6. Values in Mitigation Policy / 7. Values in Adaptation Policy / 8. Intergenerational Justice and Climate Policy / 9. Nature, Values, and Climate Policy / Bibliography / Index.

Introduction : thinking through race and class in hard times -- Part One. Interventions : making sense of race and class. The retreat from race and class -- Accounting for the wages of whiteness : US Marxism and the critical history of race -- A white intellectual among thinking Black intellectuals : George Rawick and the settings of genius -- Part Two. Histories : the past and present of race and class. Removing Indians, managing slaves, and justifying slavery : the case for intersectionality -- "One symptom of originality" : race and the management of labor in US history / (coauthored with Elizabeth Esch) -- Making solidarity uneasy : cautions on a keyword from Black Lives Matter to the past.

This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments. The author pays special attention to local governmental autonomy and the goals and activities of local officials as they seek to secure resources, fend off regulations and interventions, and fight for survival as independent units. Now, in a thoroughly revised second edition, this book examines marijuana use, minimum wages, the establishment of sanctuary cities, and the regulation of ride-sharing companies. Looking at the intergovernmental struggle from the bottom up, and in the process examining a variety of political activities and policies at the state level, Berman finds considerable reason to be concerned about the viability and future of meaningful local government. This book improves our understanding of the relationship between state and local governments. It provides a thoughtful look at the past, present, and possibly the future of local home rule.

First comes cocaine, then comes crack: origin stories -- Crack the market: commodification and commercialization -- Crack up: the cost of hard-core consumption -- Crack money: manhood in the age of greed -- Crackdown: the politics and laws of drug enforcement -- Crack's retreat: a nation's slow, painful, and partial.

"In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated from the 1600s to the present day. From the late seventeenth century - the era in which DuBois located the emergence of "whiteness" - through the American revolution and the emancipatory Civil War, to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Roediger examines how race intersected all that was dynamic and progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migration and globalization." "Exploring the evidence that the USA will become a majority "nonwhite" nation in the next fifty years, this masterful account shows how race remains at the heart of American life in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- The History of Ecology -- 1 Introduction: The Idea of Ecology -- References -- 2 Ecological Thinking in the Western Tradition -- 2.1 Protoecology -- 2.1.1 Ontological Pregnancy of Biotic Communities -- 2.1.2 Natural History -- 2.1.3 Arcadianism -- 2.2 Modern Ecology -- 2.2.1 Normative Ecology -- 2.2.2 Scientific Ecology -- 2.3 Conclusion: Five Features of the Idea of Ecology -- 2.3.1 Naturalism -- 2.3.2 Ontological Interconnectedness -- 2.3.3 Holism -- 2.3.4 Nonanthropocentrism -- 2.3.5 Ecological Justice -- References -- The Metaphysics of Ecology -- 3 Entities in Patterned Process -- 3.1 Mechanism -- 3.1.1 The Mechanical View of Nature -- 3.1.2 The Organism as Machine -- 3.2 Organicism -- 3.2.1 Continuities in Nature -- 3.2.2 Discontinuities in Nature -- 3.2.3 Beauty in Nature -- 3.2.4 Teleonomy and Teleomaty -- 3.3 Ecological Entities and Process -- 3.3.1 Ecological Entities -- 3.3.2 Ecological Process -- 3.4 Four Ontologies of the Ecological Entity -- 3.4.1 The Superorganism -- 3.4.2 The Coincidental Assemblage -- 3.4.3 The Ecosystem -- 3.4.4 The Stochastic Community -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Patterned Process in Biological Evolution -- 4.1 One Long Argument: The Theory of Descent with Modifications Through Natural Selection -- 4.2 The Evolution of Metaphysics -- 4.3 The Adaptation Debate -- 4.4 Ecosystem Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, and Integrative Ecology -- 4.4.1 Ecosystem Ecology -- 4.4.2 Evolutionary Ecology -- 4.4.3 Integrative Ecology -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Reductionism, Holism, and Hierarchy Theory -- 5.1 Reductionism -- 5.2 Holism -- 5.3 Hierarchy Theory -- 5.3.1 Koestler -- 5.3.2 Nested, Nonnested, and Unified Hierarchies -- 5.3.3 Applied Hierarchy Theory -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References.

"Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education, medicine, sport, and arts. After establishing a theoretical and a methodological framework for his empirical work, David Heise presents the results obtained when meanings are assessed via dictionary definitions, collocates, and word associations. A close comparison of the results reveals that similar outcomes are obtained through each of these three different approaches of defining meaning. The final chapter summarizes the study, considers the benefits and limitations of studying society via language, and applies the results to describing how individuals operate social institutions via their daily social interactions. Aspects of this book will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists, and linguists."--Publisher description

Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction: Telling Stories for Social Change --1. Challenging Oppressive Myths: LGBTQ Activism and Storytelling --2. Documenting and Preserving Stories from the LGBTQ Movements: In the Life Media --3. Training Filmmakers and Educating Audiences: POWER UP --4. Connecting Diverse Communities through Film and Media Festivals: Three Dollar Bill Cinema --5. Developing the Next Generation of Storytellers: Reel Queer Youth --Conclusion: Stories of Some of Our Lives --Acknowledgments --Appendix --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the Author