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"A thorough, extensively documented, and well-written description of . . . the Superfund program and an astute appraisal of its many flaws . . . The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Superfund policy and politics."--Policy Currents."Hir
How can an academic scientist honour knowledge for its own sake, while also using knowledge as a means to generate wealth? This text investigates the trends & effects of modern, commercialised academic science.
Political correctness, idealizing the oppressed, and an affinity for authoritarian and charismatic leaders are all parts of what Ellis calls "the dark side of the left."
Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. Scholars have too frequently overlooked the ways in which their predominantly male subjects have themselves been shaped by gender. Seeing Nature through Gender here reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires, and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well. In thirteen essays that show how gendered ideas have shaped the ways in which people have represented, experienced, and consumed their world, Virginia Scharff and her coauthors explore interactions between gender and environment in history. Ranging from colonial...
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In his most recent art project, Branding the Campus, Christian Philipp Muller considers the representation of the university in the public sphere. Taking the University of Luneberg as its main site of inquiry, Muller's investigations reveal that "branding" is not simply the creation of identificatory signs. Branding the Campus problematizes the commercial pressures put on universities of late, pressures which affect the content and social criteria of academic culture. Textual and photographic documentation of Muller's two-part permanent installation is accompanied by essays examining the methodological and content-oriented relationship between this work and the artist's previous projects.
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