Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point - Softcover

Subhankar Banerjee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609804961 ISBN 13: 9781609804961

Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2013

Synopsis

World renowned photographer, activist and writer Subhankar Banerjee here brings together first-person narratives from nearly 30 of the world's most recognised activists, writers and researchers which address the issues of climate change, resource war and human rights with stunning urgency and ground breaking research. A timely release, this seminal collection of observations comes in a period of grave concern for the Arctic - global warming continues to wreak havoc, while its protected status is under threat from fuel hungry nations.

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Review

"The Earth and her beings have been speaking. But we failed to listen. Arctic Voices compels us to listen. We will stay deaf at our peril."
--Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya and author of Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development

"A marvelous work, a marvelous land--hear the voices that call us to save these jewels of our planet."
--James E. Hansen, director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and author of Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

"One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book, Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement, where 'voices of resistance are gathering, are getting louder and louder.' May his heartfelt efforts magnify them."
--Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books

"Part of our failure to recognise the dangers at stake is that the Arctic still tends to be perceived as a big barren desert of ice, apolitical and disconnected from our political concerns, up for grabs. The book Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point offers an encyclopedic approach to reframe such understandings."
--Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera

"Their reverence for, and connection to, the earth--its animals, water, mountains and land--is beautifully described in Arctic Voices, and each essay is as much a prayer as a call to activism."
--Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout

"Just in time, then, comes Banerjee's latest volume, Arctic Voices, a wakeup call from 39 artists, writers, biologists, Alaska Natives and activists [...] the eyewitness accounts and reports in Arctic Voices question the wisdom of relying on fossil fuel fixes, urging restraint in our approach to the nation's last great wilderness area."
--Michael Engelhard, High Country News

"Right from the beginning I'm emotionally connected with this book [...]"
--The Environmental Blog

About the Author

Over the past decade SUBHANKAR BANERJEE has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights, resource development, and climate change. In 2003 he published Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a photo book of his fourteen-month long journey in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Through a Lannan Foundation grant, 10,000 copies of the book were donated to libraries and policy makers across the country. He was recently Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fordham University in New York. He has received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from New Mexico State University and a Cultural Freedom Award from Lannan Foundation. Banerjee lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1609804961
• ISBN 13: 9781609804961
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 560