Tyler Schafer examines a fledgling Las Vegas community garden and uses it as a case study to identify the ways group cultures create inside community gardens. He argues that gardener's decisions, made consciously or not, shape their abilities to address the challenges faced by the residents of their city.
Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise questions about the influence of such globalism on the development of civil society. This book maps the legal limits of corporate power in our democratic society and explores the role of the corporate judiciary in creating public policy.
Corruption in Society: Multidisciplinary Conceptualizations is the first book to address the notion of corruption in a truly multidisciplinary manner, augmented with empirical evidence. The prevalent definition in books and articles on corruption is that it is a dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those with political and/or economic power, ......
The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process.
This book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions of digital mediatization and in relation to a set of particular historical and geopolitical circumstances.
Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
