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The Colombian Amazon is facing a deepening security, human rights and environmental crisis. The change of conflict dynamics after the Peace Agreement in 2016 has gone hand in hand with increasing deforestation and violence against local communities, social leaders and environmental defenders in parts of the Colombian Amazon. A complex and ever-changing network of illegal armed groups, private actors and corrupt officials has used the power vacuum left by the demobilisation and disarmament of large parts of the FARC to expand their power and illegal economic activities. Resource grabbing and illegal economic activities, such as the the cultivation of coca crops for illicit uses and trafficking of cocaine, as well as mining, cattle ranching and agriculture in protected areas, are key drivers of environmental degradation and increasing violence. Therefore it requires investing in the broader social and economic needs of marginalised communities and building their resilience to environmental change and degradation, including the impacts of climate change and conflict.

A coruscating, honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity, from the globally recognized model, actress, business owner, and activist Emily Ratajkowski. Emily Ratajkowski is the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time: she is at once an acclaimed model and actress and an engaged political progressive; a social media phenomenon and a formidable entrepreneur who has uniquely mastered the levers of our attention economy; and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age 21 when she danced almost naked in the controversial music video Blurred Lines, Ratajkowski sparked praise and furor for defending her appearance as a statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture's commodification of women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power; of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays offer revealing moments from Ratajkowski's life while investigating our culture's fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women's sexuality, the blurred line between consent and abuse, and the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries. Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence

Nous pensions en avoir presque fini avec la contamination de la recherche par le militantisme. Mais le monde académique que nous dessinent les nouveaux chantres de l'identitarisme communautariste n'a rien à envier à celui que s'étaient jadis annexé les grandes idéologies. Nos "universitaires engagés", trouvant sans doute que voter, manifester, militer dans une association ou un parti ne sont pas assez chics pour eux, tentent de reconquérir les amphithéâtres et leurs annexes. Obnubilés par le genre, la race et les discours de domination, ils appauvrissent l'université de la variété de ses ressources conceptuelles. Qu'il soit la source ou l'écho de cette nouvelle dérive, décrite ici dans toutes ses aberrations, le monde social que ces chercheurs-militants s'attachent à bâtir s'avère à bien des regards invivable, habité par la hargne et le désir insatiable de revanche