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UNINA9910464134803321 |
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Autore |
Price Richard <1941-> |
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Rainforest warriors [[electronic resource] ] : human rights on trial / / Richard Price |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
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0-8122-4300-5 |
1-283-89027-5 |
0-8122-0372-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
Pennsylvania studies in human rights |
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Saramacca (Surinamese people) - Civil rights |
Saramacca (Surinamese people) - Legal status, laws, etc |
Human rights - Suriname |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Africans discover America -- Earth, water, sky -- Sovereignty and territory -- Resistance redux -- Judgment day -- American dreams. |
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Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life-part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990's, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their |
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threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival. |
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UNINA9910460371303321 |
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Autore |
Alvarez Steven J. |
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Selling war : a critical look at the military's PR machine / / Steven J. Alvarez |
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Lincoln : , : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1-61234-819-X |
1-61234-817-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 pages) |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Public opinion |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Political aspects - United States |
Public relations and politics - United States - History - 21st century |
Communication in politics - United States - History - 21st century |
Mass media - Political aspects - United States - History - 21st century |
Information warfare - Iraq - History - 21st century |
Information warfare - United States - History - 21st century |
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United States Armed Forces Public relations History 21st century |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Insulation -- The Coalition Provisional Authority Days -- The Iraqi Face -- The Blog of War -- David versus Goliath -- Iraqi Media Team -- Training the Iraqi Ministries -- Arab Media -- Al-Jazeera -- Fallujah -- Public Affairs -- Western Media -- Epilogue. |
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"In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier displayed the banner 'Mission Accomplished,' the dynamics of the war shifted. Selling War recounts how the U.S. military lost the information war in Iraq by engaging the wrong audiences--that is, the Western media--by ignoring Iraqi citizens and the wider Arab population, and by paying mere lip service to the directive to 'Put an Iraqi face on everything.' In the absence of effective communication from the U.S. military, the information void was swiftly filled by Al Qaeda and, eventually, ISIS. As a result, efforts to create and maintain a successful, stable country were complicated and eventually frustrated. Alvarez couples his experiences as a public affairs officer in Iraq with extensive research on communication and government relations to expose why communications failed and led to the breakdown on the ground. A revealing glimpse into the inner workings of the military's PR machine, where personnel become stewards of presidential legacies and keepers of flawed policies, Selling War provides a critical review of the outdated communication strategies executed in Iraq. Alvarez's candid account demonstrates how a fundamental lack of understanding about how to wage an information war has led to the conditions we face now: the rise of ISIS and the return of U.S. forces to Iraq"-- |
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UNINA9910451834103321 |
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Returning to the source : the final stage of the Caribbean migration circuit / / edited by Dwaine E. Plaza and Frances Henry |
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Jamaica ; ; Barbados ; ; Trinidad and Tobago : , : University of the West Indies Press, , 2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Return migration - Caribbean Area |
Immigrants - Caribbean Area |
Electronic books. |
Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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An overview of return migration to the English-speaking Caribbean / Dwaine E. Plaza and Frances Henry -- Return migration to the Caribbean: locating the concept in historical space / Dennis A.V. Brown -- Barbadian migrants abroad and back home / George Gmelch -- Trini to the bone: return, reintegration and resolution among Trinidadian migrants / Roger-Mark De Souza -- Inter-generational "Return Migration" to St. Lucia: a comparative analysis / Francis K. Abenaty -- Building home: being and becoming a return resident / Heather A Horst -- Second-generation "Returnee" migration to Jamaica and Barbados: pursuing Happiness and Mobility / Dwaine E. Plaza -- Maximizing migration: Caribbean return movements and the organization of transnational space / Elizabeth Thomas-Hope -- Episodes of return migration in Tobago: a phenomenological study / Godfrey C. St. Bernard -- Sequence of Emigration and return: the Jamaican experience / John Small -- Return migration to Jamaica and Barbados from the United Kingdom in the 1990s: some lessons / Harry Goulbourne. |
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