While this book will not have the impact of Davis's City of Quartz--a scathing indictment of L.A.'s environmental ravagement, economic disparity and racial divides--in a perfect world, it would. Its subject is nothing less than the creation of what we now call "The Third World," through a complex series of seemingly disparate natural and market-related events beginning in the 1870s. Davis dives into the data and journalism of the period with a vengeance, showing that the seemingly unprecedented droughts across northern Africa, India and China in the 1870s and 1890s are consistent with what we now know to be El Ni¤o's effects, and that it was political and market forces (which are never impersonal, Davis insists), and not a lack of potential stores and transportation, that kept grain from the more than 50 million people who starved to death.
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Reading LVH has been more painful than reading The Ecology of Fear not only because of the famines’ higher human toll than the Southern Calironian natural disasters. In relation to natural causes, namely El Nino, LVH reveals the ignorance of major thinkers...
評分Reading LVH has been more painful than reading The Ecology of Fear not only because of the famines’ higher human toll than the Southern Calironian natural disasters. In relation to natural causes, namely El Nino, LVH reveals the ignorance of major thinkers...
評分Reading LVH has been more painful than reading The Ecology of Fear not only because of the famines’ higher human toll than the Southern Calironian natural disasters. In relation to natural causes, namely El Nino, LVH reveals the ignorance of major thinkers...
評分Reading LVH has been more painful than reading The Ecology of Fear not only because of the famines’ higher human toll than the Southern Calironian natural disasters. In relation to natural causes, namely El Nino, LVH reveals the ignorance of major thinkers...
評分Reading LVH has been more painful than reading The Ecology of Fear not only because of the famines’ higher human toll than the Southern Calironian natural disasters. In relation to natural causes, namely El Nino, LVH reveals the ignorance of major thinkers...
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挺可怕的
評分挺可怕的
評分與我寫過的一個小文章觀點很像,自視為對我社會學想象力的肯定哈哈。從國際政治經濟學的角度來解釋中印的衰落,觀點並不新鮮。但從1877年和1890年兩次厄爾尼諾齣發,解釋自然特徵是如何與國際政治經濟秩序交織在一起,破壞瞭東亞既有的生産秩序的,角度還是挺刁鑽。
評分World climate system, late Victorian world economy, New Imperialism; ecological poverty, household poverty, state decapacitation - making of the third world | 171031
評分在世界性氣候危機下,為什麼有的國傢存活下來,有的卻受到重創?明顯是和「脆弱性」有關,無論是環境的還是社會經濟的。原來嚮F老師提議讀這本書,老師本能地反對環境決定論,可能是我要重讀並尋求解釋的地方。
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