"Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capitalism and modernity in different times and places. As capital accumulation has grown and taken new forms, it has affected technology and labor relations which in turn have affected people's daily lives. These changes have not always been either welcome or easy. Pred and Watts focus on the symb ..."
"At the beginning of the 21st century, the environment and the future of development continue to be issues of crucial importance. Most explanations of environmental crisis emphasize the role of population growth, thus focusing their attention on the poor. By comparison, Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation drawing from the most recent advances in social theory. The new edition has been extensively revised to r ..."
"Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the ..."
Reworking Modernity Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent (Hegemony and Experience : Critical Studies in Anthropology and History) by Allan Pred, MichaelJohnWatts Hardcover, 265 Pages, Published 1992 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-1831-2, ISBN: 0-8135-1831-8
Shadow SEAL by Watts, John, Katz, Michael S Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2022 by Strider Nolan Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-932045-33-8, ISBN: 1-932045-33-3