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Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Stephanie Kane
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Description for Where Rivers Meet the Sea
Paperback. A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; JPA; RNK; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law
A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439909317
SKU
V9781439909317
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About Stephanie Kane
Stephanie C. Kane is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University with affiliations in anthropology, folklore, and gender studies. She is author of The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama and AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas (Temple). She is coeditor of Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime.
Reviews for Where Rivers Meet the Sea
"This book is a fascinating and passionate ethnography of 'popular activism in local symbolic spaces' of Salvador, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina... [V]aluable for its comparative ethnographic account of how activists struggle with other non-state actors and state authorities regarding water in two port cities... [Kane's] ethnography tells a story that is passionate, insightful and moving, revealing the difficulties and ... Read more