Informationen zum Autor Julian E. Kunnie is a professor, activist researcher, and advocate for the Earth Mother and Indigenous peoples in Turtle Island (North America), Africa, and around the world spanning almost five decades. His articles have appeared in the African Studies Review, the Black Scholar, the Journal of African American History, the Journal of the African American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Pan African Studies, and other noted journals and publications. Klappentext The issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works. This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions. The United States' growing prison industrial complex is discussed. The author concludes with a call for reassessing current ways of living and proposes recreating cultures of conservation and sustainable economies. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. Zusammenfassung Examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples! including the widening wealth gap! the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights! global warming and ecological annihilation! and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labour and are subject to violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations xiiiPrefaceIntroduction1. 21st Century Globalization: Illusions of Global Economic Prosperity Yet the Reality of Poverty 2. Globalization, Ecocide and the Lethal Threats Against Indigenous Peoples3. Unjust Globalization and the Acute Marginalization of Poor Women in the World4. Unjust Globalization and Unfair Justice Against the Poor: Lethal Racism, Expanded Incarceration, Law Enforcement Violence and Punishment Over Education5. Globalization's Intensification of Global Warming and Climate ChangeEpilogue: Whither Unjust Globalization? An Open Future Based Neither on Linear Progress Nor Materialist ConsumptionChapter NotesBibliographyIndex...

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Julian E. Kunnie is a professor, activist researcher, and advocate for the Earth Mother and Indigenous peoples in Turtle Island (North America), Africa, and around the world spanning almost five decades. His articles have appeared in the African Studies Review, the Black Scholar, the Journal of African American History, the Journal of the African American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Pan African Studies, and other noted journals and publications.

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The issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works. This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions. The United States' growing prison industrial complex is discussed. The author concludes with a call for reassessing current ways of living and proposes recreating cultures of conservation and sustainable economies. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labour and are subject to violence.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations xiii
Preface
Introduction

1. 21st Century Globalization: Illusions of Global Economic Prosperity Yet the Reality of Poverty
2. Globalization, Ecocide and the Lethal Threats Against Indigenous Peoples
3. Unjust Globalization and the Acute Marginalization of Poor Women in the World
4. Unjust Globalization and Unfair Justice Against the Poor: Lethal Racism, Expanded Incarceration, Law Enforcement Violence and Punishment Over Education
5. Globalization's Intensification of Global Warming and Climate Change
   Epilogue: Whither Unjust Globalization? An Open Future Based Neither on Linear Progress Nor Materialist Consumption
   Chapter Notes
   Bibliography
   Index