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Réchauffement planétaire et douceur de vivre

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C’est l’inquiétude face aux changements climatiques qui a incité Matt Hern, Am Johal et le bédéiste Joe Sacco à entreprendre un road trip partant de la très progressiste et écologique Vancouver pour se rendre au cœur des champs de sables bitumineux du nord-ouest du Canada. Leur projet? Aller à la rencontre des gens qui vivent de l’extraction de la ressource naturelle réputée la plus polluante de la planète et des hommes et femmes qui sont aux premières loges du désastre écologique qu’elle provoque.

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Global warming and the sweetness of life: a Tar Sands tale

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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. Seamlessly combining travelogue, sophisticated political analysis, and ecological theory, speaking both to local residents and to leading scholars, the authors propose a new understanding of ecology that links the domination of the other-than-human world to the domination of humans by humans. They argue that any definition of ecology has to start with decolonization and that confronting global warming requires a politics that speaks to a different way of being in the world—a reconstituted understanding of the sweetness of life.

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What a city is for : remaking the politics of displacement

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Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina—the one major Black neighborhood in Portland—has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they’ve been aggressively displaced—by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification.