...Mart A. Stewart Most environmental issues and initiatives that emerged in the twentieth century were shaped by or against economies driven by capitalist markets, but no initiative has so explicitly been made into a market as recent efforts to address the problem of anthropogenic climate change...

... political economy were subject to variation over time because of these flood hazards. Engineers, in other words, are political actors because they produce geographic frameworks for relating development to a changing climate. By tracing the work of engineers, this article is a modest attempt to understand...

...Kalamaoka’aina Niheu Abstract In an era of climate change crisis precipitated by global extraction of resources and defended by a military-industrial complex, Kanaka Maoli, or the First Peoples of Hawai’i, have struggled over the decades to resist the militarization of our homeland. The struggle...

...Vijay Prashad Is it possible to imagine a project to mitigate climate change that does not at the same time engage with the destructive impact that capitalist social relations have had on the natural and human worlds? Islands disappear into the South Seas as islands in the Caribbean are thrashed by...

... and sexualized torture of Arab/Muslim men in the war on terror, the targeting of women as the proper subjects of microfinance and other credit products, and women, men, cyborgs, and sex in speculative fiction about climate change. © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015...

... example, a major plank of the Bolivian position on climate change is the climate debt owed by powerful nations to the global South to help them deal with related problems such as water scarcity. Even in the unlikely event that this debt is forthcoming, it would likely be with strings attached to...

... SOCIETY WITHOUT CLASS CONFLICT AND SOCIAL CHANGE?* Why was it Western Europe, rather than China, that was first to develop industrial capitalism? Why did China still fail to develop a strong industrial capitalist econ• omy in the 19th century after the Western colonial expan• sion to...

... commodities that incorporates global, national, and local scales; the role of the state in shaping historical human-environment interactions; the social and cultural production of environmental knowledge and geographical science; and the varying approaches to landscape change that partially parallel...

... range of opportunities and limitations this may have represented. If, indeed, white and black workers alike made gains in the workplace through union representation, there is no indication of how this was translated into changes in Birmingham’s racial climate, or alternatively, how the...

... problems, such as climate change, the ozone layer, human population, and biodiversity loss are global in scope, not national. And many historical environmental issues — pandemics and ecological invasions, for example — also need to be examined in global or transnational context.4 To properly read...

... public school educational climate. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2008 CRITICAL CLASSROOMS Theater of the Assessed: Drama-Based Pedagogies in the History Classroom Rachel Mattson In 2005 the American Historical Review published an essay about the relationship...

... a climate that privileged dominant modes of classroom communication. Our experiences suggest that deconstructing classroom dynamics and engaging in collaborative teaching can create more democratic spaces that enhance student learning and challenge hegemonic teaching practices and classroom...

... restaurants. We consider a number of analytical themes in seeking to explain these divergent histories of street foods, including climate, gendered agency, and racial thinking. We conclude that histories of municipal governance, created through empire building and migration, had a determinant role in...

..., creating an unequal climate of gendered power relations that comprised dating, sex work, and frequent rape. This article considers how the violent embrace shaped historical narratives of US power in East Asia, obscuring both imperial power and systemic sexual violence in military archives and later...

... climate, the supply and use of water in the shantytown home, and the ordeal of being gazed at by French neighbors of the bidonvilles because of their muddy appearance or while undergoing the arduous task of fetching water from communal water points. In large part, the article draws from the archives...

... documented natural history and environmental issues since 1975. His coverage ranges from the eruption of Mount Saint Helens and the ancient forests of the West Coast of North America to global climate change. In 2006 he received the Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography from the Sierra Club...

... developmentalist agendas of external intervention. Without constant human activity cities fall quickly into a state of entropy and decay: materials degrade, systems become obsolete and living conditions decline. The maintenance of cities now faces new threats such as a climate change – induced sea...

... everyday experience was politicized, and paying special attention to the political struggle played out in city streets, these filmmakers were able to explore the relationship between political change, social inequality, and everyday and state violence. These films are, in short, important documents for the...

... will likely become more prominent over the coming decades. Climate change and our responses to it will create a need for courses like this one to explore whether our policies and practices are encouraging socially and environmentally just solutions. A 2009 United Nations report on the effect of...

... methods used by food historians might be applied to the food-movement dialogue. Using John Soluri's Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States and Paul Freedman's Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination as examples, O'Neill argues...