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ISBN: 1597347140 9786612359606 1282359606 0520936809 9780520936805 1417525649 9781417525645 9781597347143 9780520213128 0520213122 9780520236288 0520236289 0520213122 0520236289 6612359609 9781282359604 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press
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Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. Life Place is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to live, work, eat, and play in relation to naturally, rather than politically, defined areas. In it, Thayer gives a richly textured portrait of his own home, the Putah-Cache watershed in California's Sacramento Valley, demonstrating how bioregionalism can be practiced in everyday life. Written in a lively anecdotal style and expressing a profound love of place, this book is a guide to the personal rewards and the social benefits of re-inhabiting the natural world on a local scale. In LifePlace, Thayer shares what he has learned over the course of thirty years about the Sacramento Valley's geography, minerals, flora, and fauna; its relation to fire, agriculture, and water; and its indigenous peoples, farmers, and artists. He shows how the spirit of bioregionalism springs from learning the history of a place, from participating in its local economy, from living in housing designed in the context of the region. He asks: How can we instill a love of place and knowledge of the local into our education system? How can the economy become more responsive to the ecology of region? This valuable book is also a window onto current writing on bioregionalism, introducing the ideas of its most notable proponents in accessible and highly engaging prose. At the same time that it gives an entirely new appreciation of California's Central Valley, LifePlace shows how we can move toward a new way of being, thinking, and acting in the world that can lead to a sustainable, harmonious, and more satisfying future.
Bioregionalism. --- Environmentalism --- Human ecology --- bioregional movement. --- bioregionalism. --- california. --- case study. --- environmental studies. --- fauna and flora. --- indigenous peoples. --- local agriculture. --- local economies. --- local geography. --- local living. --- local residents. --- modern lives. --- natural living. --- natural world. --- nonfiction. --- place history. --- putah cache watershed. --- regional ecology. --- regional history. --- sacramento valley. --- social and cultural. --- sustainable business. --- sustainable living. --- textbooks. --- work and play. --- working locally.
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ISBN: 1306463335 0520957776 9781306463331 9780520957770 9780520282018 9780520282025 0520282019 0520282027 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press
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Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Emigration and immigration --- Women foreign workers --- Women immigrants --- Foreign women workers --- Women alien labor --- Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Foreign workers --- Women employees --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Hong Kong (China) --- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) --- Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China) --- 香港特別行政區 (China) --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu --- 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 --- HKSAR (China) --- Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China) --- Xianggang (China) --- 香港 (China) --- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) --- Hong Kong --- Emigration and immigration. --- asia. --- asian immigration. --- asian migration. --- asylum seekers. --- businessmen. --- china. --- chinese politics. --- citizenship. --- domestic workers. --- ethnography. --- family. --- filipina women. --- global problems. --- hong kong. --- humanity. --- indonesia. --- indonesian women. --- labor politics. --- local residents. --- major city. --- migrant domestic workers. --- migrant mothers. --- migrants. --- migration politics. --- migration. --- mobility. --- morality. --- mothering. --- parenthood. --- parenting. --- refugees. --- south asia. --- temporary workers. --- the philippine islands. --- tourists. --- traders. --- working class. --- world city.
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