Re: reading suggestions
Hi, Lisa,
These folks might be of interest:
1)Arunhdati Roy's film DAM/AGE. A very powerful critique of India's
nuclear weapons policies and the approach to industrialization and
rapid development including the Narmada Dam project (displacing
thousands of poor caste in India) and the power company Enron's
activities in India.
2)Wangari Muta Maathai of Kenya who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
Through the Green Belt Movement she has assisted women in planting
more than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church
compounds.The Green Belt Movement and Professor Wangari Maathai are
featured in several publications including The Green Belt Movement:
Sharing the Approach (by Professor Wangari Maathai, 2002) Women
Pioneers for the Environment (Mary Joy Breton, 1998)
Cheers,
Tanetta Andersson
PhD Candidate
Case Western Reserve University
----- Original Message -----
From: Madeleine Cousineau <mrcousineau@...>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008 10:05 am
Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: reading suggestions
To: zilneyl@..., teachsoc@...
> Lisa, I don't have a specific reading to recommend. However, I'm
> wondering whether anyone has written about women in environmental
> movements in the Amazon. There are two people you might Google.
> One is Marina Silva, a close associate of Chico Mendes who is now
> the Minister for the Environment in Brazil. The other is Dorothy
> Stang, an American nun who organized the small farmers around
> sustainable agriculture and was murdered a couple of years ago
> because of her opposition to the loggers. The only written
> materials on Dorothy that I know of are newspaper articles written
> at the time of her death and a biography that does not have much
> about the environmental movement. But there may be more. You might
> also Google women/environment/MST -- since the MST (the Brazilian
> Movement of the Landless) has a strong sense of both
> environmentalism and women's rights.
>
> Madeleine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lisa Anne Zilney
> To: teachsoc@...
> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:29 AM
> Subject: TEACHSOC: reading suggestions
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> I am teaching an undergraduate course entitled Women & the
> Environment this spring for the first time and am having
> difficulty locating readings (beyond ecofeminism, which I have
> covered). Any suggestions (either books or articles) would be
> extremely welcome. I will compile and forward to the list. I would
> also love to hear from anyone who has taught a similar course with
> any suggestions of assignments, etc., as this is the first time I
> am teaching such a "specialized" environmental course.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~Lisa
>
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