Environmental defenders : deadly struggles for life and territory /: deadly struggles for life and territory. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mary Menton, Philippe Le Billon.
• Editors: Menton, Mary; Le Billon, Philippe
• Contents: 1. Introduction; Philippe Le Billon and Mary Menton Part 1 - On Defenders 2. Conflicts in the Amazon: The Assassination of José Claudio and Maria; Claudelice Santos 3. How young Cambodian environmental activists work under dictatorship; San Mala 4. Human rights violations in the name of conservation in the Ngorongoro District; Yannick Ndoinyo 5. "Environmental defenders": the power / disempowerment of a loaded term; Judith Verweijen, Fran Lambrick, Philippe Le Billon, et al. 6. Atmospheres of Violence: On defenders’ intersecting experiences of violence; Mary Menton, Grettel Navas, and Philippe Le Billon 7. Environmental defenders: Killings, perpetrators, and drivers of violence; Philippe Le Billon and Päivi Lujala 8. The gendered criminalization of land defenders in Ecuador: from individualization to collective resistance in feminized territories; Melissa Moreano Venegas and Karolien van Teijlingen 9. Insurgent ideas from indigenous peoples in Brazil: counter-colonial epistemologies and the defense of life; Felipe Milanez Part 2 - Brown Projects 10. The Permutations of Poverty; Rob Nixon 11. Violence and resistance in Ceará Indígena, Northeastern Brazil; Jurema Machado de A. Souza, Mary Menton, Antônia Silva Santos, et al. 12. ‘Land defenders’ and the political ecology of coal power in Bangladesh; Paul Robert Gilbert & Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan 13. Manifestations of violence: Case study of Moolampilly eviction for a development project in Kerala; Chitra Karunakaran Prasanna 14. Defenders and land struggles against agro-industrial and mining investment projects; Louisa Prause and Philippe Le Billon 15. How violence is justified in ‘democratic countries’; Justine Taylor Part 3 - Green Projects 16. Resist or comply? Experiences of violence around dams in Cambodia; Sarah Milne 17. Pacifying autonomous land defenders in Oaxaca, Mexico: Human rights groups as social warfare mechanisms; Alexander Dunlap and Martín Correa Arce 18. Land defenders, infrastructural violence and environmental coloniality: Resisting a wastewater treatment plant in Eastern Nablus; Jeanne Perrier 19. Defending territory from the extraction and conservation nexus; Philippe Le Billon 20. BINGOs & environmental defenders: NGO complicity in atmospheres of violence and the possibilities for decolonial solidarity with defenders; Mary Menton and Paul Gilbert 21. Defending Territories of Life through Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs); Cora Shaw 22. Interrogating international cooperation in support of environmental human rights defenders: the Geneva Roadmap 40/11 and the power of connecting solutions; Peter Bille Larsen and Yves Lador
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 304.28; Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Environmentalists -- Violence against -- Case studies; Environmental degradation -- Prevention -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000402216; 9781000402148; 9781003127222
• Related ISBNs: 9780367649708; 9780367649647
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