Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life
A Tar Sands Tale
$79.79
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2018
Summary
Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta-perhaps the world’s largest industrial site, dedicated to the dirty work of extracting oil from Alberta’s vast reserves. Traveling from culturally lib…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262037648 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262037645 |
| Author: | Matt Hern, Am Johal, Joe Sacco |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 338g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life |
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A book like no other – one of the most peculiar I have read in a while… A highly intelligent and inspiring read.
—E&T MagazineThe book’s intellectual rigour is as laudable as its open-mindedness.
—Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitorappealingly humble and refreshingly determined to talk about big ideas with the individuals who would be most affected by their implementation.
—New York Review of Books, 2.21.2019no one else could have written this book, in this form, and it’s a delight to be faced so openly with such complexity of perspective in (mostly!) direct prose.
—Book Addiction BlogAbout The Author
Matt Hern
Matt Hern is a founder of Solid State Industries, teaches at multiple universities, and lectures widely. He is the author of What a City Is For- Remaking the Politics of Displacement (MIT Press) among many other books.Am Johal is Director of Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and author of Ecological Metapolitics- Badiou and the Anthropocene.Joe Sacco is a cartoonist and author of Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, Footnotes in Gaza, and other works of journalism. He lives in Portland with a vodka martini.
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