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cover of Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State

Underdeveloping the Amazon

Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State

Stephen G. Bunker

University of Chicago Press, 1988

Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.
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cover of Unruly Climates, Contested Futures: Imaginaries and Politics of Climate Resistance in Europe

Unruly Climates, Contested Futures

Imaginaries and Politics of Climate Resistance in Europe

Edited by Antje Daniel, Frank Adloff, Juneseo Hwang, Philipp Jacobi, and Luis Poscharsky

Campus Verlag, 2026

An exploration of how different forms of collective, community-based climate activism shape and imagine a more sustainable future. 

The future has become a key focus in the social sciences, both as a research topic and as a space for political imagination and resistance. Since the climate crisis has moved into public consciousness, with movements like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion rising to prominence, questions about what a climate-just future looks like—and how it can be achieved—are now more urgent than ever. This book explores how different collective actors imagine and shape the future in the context of climate justice. It examines tensions between radical transformation, post-growth, and green modernization, as well as the contrasting ecological visions of left-wing and right-wing activism. Future imaginaries are presented not only as visions, but also as tools for action, shaping resistance, inspiring self-organization, and influencing strategies for sustainable change. Drawing on examples from grassroots climate movements, guerrilla gardening, ecovillages, and other forms of collective action, this volume offers one of the first comprehensive overviews of how imagined futures can guide political practice and societal transformation.

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cover of Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics

Upstream/Downstream

Issues in Environmental Ethics

Donald Scherer

Temple University Press, 1993

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cover of Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River

Upstream

Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River

Beth Rose Middleton Manning

University of Arizona Press, 2018

From Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara lands in South Dakota; to Cherokee lands in Tennessee; to Sin-Aikst, Lakes, and Colville lands in Washington; to Chemehuevi lands in Arizona; to Maidu, Pit River, and Wintu lands in northern California, Native lands and communities have been treated as sacrifice zones for national priorities of irrigation, flood control, and hydroelectric development.

Upstream documents the significance of the Allotment Era to a long and ongoing history of cultural and community disruption. It also details Indigenous resistance to both hydropower and disruptive conservation efforts. With a focus on northeastern California, this book highlights points of intervention to increase justice for Indigenous peoples in contemporary natural resource policy making.

Author Beth Rose Middleton Manning relates the history behind the nation’s largest state-built water and power conveyance system, California’s State Water Project, with a focus on Indigenous resistance and activism. She illustrates how Indigenous history should inform contemporary conservation measures and reveals institutionalized injustices in natural resource planning and the persistent need for advocacy for Indigenous restitution and recognition.

Upstream uses a multidisciplinary and multitemporal approach, weaving together compelling stories with a study of placemaking and land development. It offers a vision of policy reform that will lead to improved Indigenous futures at sites of Indigenous land and water divestiture around the nation.

 
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