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Sociology of environment --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- New York City --- New York City [New York]

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Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many routes people take to work toward social change. Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country-from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Each one examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right. Moving far beyond the walls of academia, the contributors address the complex issues that arise when researchers have stakes in the subjects they study. Scholars can play multiple roles in the activist struggles they recount, and these essays illustrate how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism.

Social change --- Social participation --- Community life --- United States --- United States --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government.

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Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.

Sustainable urban development. --- Urban anthropology. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanization --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U10 --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Anthropology, Urban --- Ethnology --- Environmentally sustainable urban development --- City planning --- Sustainable development --- Social aspects. --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: wonen en huisvesting --- Environmental aspects --- Sustainable urban development --- Urban anthropology --- Social aspects