MAY 10, 2022 • page
How Did the Turkish Empire Rule for Centuries?
How did arguably "a relatively small group of passionately self-contained Turks managed to hold together for several centuries one of the most improbable, ramshackle, poorly ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Ethics of Pacifism: When is the Amoral Choice Not Using Force?
Sebastian Junger says that society needs to grapple with the question "when is the amoral choice not using force?"
MAY 11, 2022 • page
Chapter 1 The Politics and Ethics of Going Green in China
This chapter from Forging Environmentalism examines two cases of China’s progressive environmental policies undertaken or backed by the government.
MAY 11, 2022 • page
Chapter 2 From Kogai to Kankyo Mondai
This chapter from Forging Environmentalism presents two (primary and secondary) industrial pollution case studies and two (primary and secondary) resource use cases studies in Japan.
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Chapter 3 Rethinking Indian Environmentalism
This chapter from Forging Environmentalism describes two case studies in India: air pollution control in Delhi and fisheries management in Kerala.
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Chapter 4 Two Faces of American Environmentalism
This chapter from Forging Environmentalism presents two case studies: the small town of Grand Bois, Louisiana, which was sickened by the oilfield waste deposited ...
MAY 11, 2022 • page
Chapter 5 The Value of Legality in Environmental Action
In Forging Environmentalism, Sheila Jasanoff examines the role of the law in the country case studies, both as a culturally specific expression of each society’...
MAY 11, 2022 • page
Chapter 6 Environmental Transformations and the Values of Modernity
In this commentary chapter from Forging Environmentalism, Arun Agrawal analyzes the case studies to identify the values of modernity at play in them. He examines ...