NOTEBOOK
by Marianne Ackerman
17.07.2009
In these, the dying days of empire, when decadence in art is so common as to be unremarkable, work that inspires vivid criticism deserves attention, even if it’s not great art. Case in point, Brüno.
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BOOKS
Conservation Refugees: the Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, Mark Dowie, MIT Press
by Louise Fabiani
05.07.2009
Many of the environmental groups working to protect the last vestiges of wild nature fail to include native peoples in their long-term plans. Mark Dowie makes this provocative claim in his latest book, Conservation Refugees. It’s a mistake, he says, to separate humans from the non-human species and geographical conditions to which they have adapted [...]
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