Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal 1789143055, 9781789143058

Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avantgarde, abandoned places and things—decommissioned military sites, pos

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Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
1789143055, 9781789143058

IThis book draws on his experiences as a lawfare practitioner, U.S. State Department attorney, and international law sch

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Denounces contemporary politics through an engagement with political theory, the arts and what it is to live well Laure

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Human interaction with the natural world has created serious environmental problems. In Nature as Landscape Kraft von Ma

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How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mini

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Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate mo

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Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Throu

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The turn of the millennium has heralded an outgrowth of culture that demonstrates an awareness of the ephemeral nature o

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It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another—or to think of landscape as merely

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The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this

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