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Author:   Doerthe Rosenow ,  Clive Barnett
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.362kg
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9781138652279

ISBN 10:   113865227
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   09 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Un-making Environmental Activism: An Introduction; Anti-GMO Activism Past and Present; The ‘Radical’ Argument Against Science-Based Environmentalism; Moving Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries? The New Materialisms and Latour’s Politics of the Collective; Starting from Historical Oppression: The Problem of Colonial Difference ; Chapter Outline; Chapter 2: ‘No One Knows What an Environment Can Do….’: From Facts to Concerns in the GMO Controversy; Man/Gene; Man/Gene’s Governance of the World; Dance of Life; In Place of a Conclusion: (Un)Making GMOs in the Collective ; Chapter 3. Voices and Visibilities: The Indian Bt Cotton Controversy; Who’s Speaking? Indian Smallholders and Bt Cotton; Finding a Voice in Speaking Through/With Nonhumans; The Wild Being of Statements and Visibilities; States and Machines: Thinking Differently About BT Cotton; Conclusion: Decolonising Anti-GMO Activism; Chapter 4. Travelling ‘Worlds’: The Protest of the Intercontinental Caravan; A Politics of Network? The Global Justice Movement; ‘World’-Travelling and Multiple Selves: An Introduction to Maria Lugones; ‘In Asia Great Leaders are Expected and Revered’: The Colonial Logic of the Intercontinental Caravan; Pilgrimage and Streetwalking: The Decolonial Option; Connecting Through ‘Things’: Becoming a Faithful Witness to Oppression; Conclusion: Towards Love and Play in Global (Environmental) Protest); Conclusion; Towards (More) Reality; Reflections on Method; Sense and Love: Beyond the Monologue; Streetwalking: Developing Strategies out of Concrete Encounters; An Anti-GMO Activist Manifesto; References; Index

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Doerthe Rosenow is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. She is interested in the theorisation and analysis of political struggle in relation to understandings of nature, particularly from perspectives that engage notions of materiality and (de-)coloniality. Her research is interdisciplinary, crossing over the boundaries of International Relations, political theory, human geography, anthropology, and continental philosophy.

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