- Publisher: University of California Press
- Number Of Pages: 385
- Publication Date: 2007-01-03
- ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0520248821
- ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780520248823
- Binding: Paperback
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High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
By Elizabeth Grossman
Book Description:
The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it’s anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to seven million tons each year. As a result, electronic waste already makes up more than two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40 percent of the lead found in our landfills. But the problem goes far beyond American shores, most tragically to the cities in
As Grossman notes,“This is a story in which we all play a part, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story.” The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics.
D i p l o m a c y
By Henry Kissinger
Globalisation and Pedagogy: Space, Place and Identity
By R. Edwards
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The reconfiguration of pedagogical practices around the globe has taken on a momentum that an earlier generation might well have considered startling and disorientating. Many still working in the education and training arenas do experience a high degree of disorientation and dislocation. With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understanding as to their assumptions and implications. It is the examination of these changes and developments that is the subject of this book. Central to this examination is the notion of ‘space’. Spatial metaphors are central to many discussions of pedagogy. Space has also been given greater significance in discussions of social theory informed by strands of postmodern, feminist and postcolonial thinking. The reconfiguration of space-time is also central to debates about the nature, extent and significance of economic, cultural and political forms of globalisation. The intention in this book is to open a space through which glimpses of globalising processes and their significance for education and pedagogy can be discerned and prospects explored.
Postcolonial Politics, the Internet and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online
By M. I. Franklin
Critical Theories, International Relations and ‘the Anti-Globalisation Movement’ The Politics of Global Resistance
Edited by Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca
# Publisher: Routledge
# Number Of Pages: 283
# Publication Date: 2005
# ISBN : 0-203-68192-4 (Adobe eReader Format)
0–415–34390–9 (hbk)
0–415–34391–7 (pbk)
# Binding: Hardcover
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With this book, Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca make an important intervention in the contemporary debates on critical IR theory and the implications for concrete 'anti-globalisation' politics. In our view, their provocative and stimulating book will mark a departure from IR and IPE accounts of 'anti-globalisation' that take the theory and empirical realities as a given. Motivated by a desire to explore the intersection of critical theory and anti-globalisation practices, this book draws together insights from approaches as diverse as Marxism, Gramscian theory, feminism, poststructuralism, constructivism and postcolonialism. As such, the perspectives on power and movement that are taken in the volume cannot be easily captured under a single rubric. Eschle and Maiguascha have sought to engage their authors in an ongoing dialogue that stimulates open debate, rather than closing down possible insights into the anti-globalisation movement. Indeed, the reader will find that there are many more questions raised and explored than definitively answered in this volume. What does it mean to be 'antiglobalisation'? Is it possible to identify a singular entity we might call the 'anti-globalisation movement'? How can we best understand the politics of movement in an era of globalization? Who speaks, and who is silenced in international relations and international political economy accounts of power and resistance?
# National sovereignty
# International economic transactions
# Global capital flows
# Human rights
# Humanitarian intervention
# The role of the military
Two Worlds of International Relations
By C. Hill
This work gives a complete overview of Japanese foreign policy and Japan-Shout East Asian relations and will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese foreign policy, Asian studies and international relations.
The Logic of Internationalism: Coercion and Accomodation
By Kjell Goldmann
Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security
By Barry Buzan, Ole W'ver
International Relations: The Basics
By Sutch/Elias
Covering all the basics and more, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to understand contemporary international relations.
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