Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis, 2019

Journal of Transdisciplinary Peace Praxis

Current ISSUE

Released on 30 January 2019

In the inaugural issue, the complex conflictual themes and relational dynamics exposed by human’s on-going late capitalist environmental degradation have been explored.

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CONTENTS

List of Contributors	3
Editor’s Welcome and Introduction JEREMY RINKER, Assistant Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Peace & Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA	7
Environmental Degradation: Communities Forging a Path Forward LACEY M. SLOAN, Associate Professor in Social Work, University of Vermont, USA & CATHRYNE L. SCHMITZ, Professor Emeritus in Social Work, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA	13
Peering through Frames at Conflict and Change:Transition in the Los Angeles Urban Water System MARCIA HALE, Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA & STEPHANIE PINCETL, Founding Director and Professor-in-Residence, California Centre for Sustainable Communities at University of California at Loss Angeles, USA	39
Farmers Facing Climate Change in Southern Zambia RICHARD ‘DREW’ MARCANTONIO, Ph.D. candidate in Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Anthropology Department, University of Notre Dame, USA, & CATHERINE BOLTEN, Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, USA	61
Gas Flaring, Environmental Degradation and Community Agitation in West Africa VANDY KANYAKO, Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution Programme, Portland State University, USA	85
The Batak Toba Women: Why Radical Rightful Resistance? MARIA KARDASHEVSKAYA, Ph.D. candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada	105
Killing Time: Environmental Crimes and the Restoration of the Future RANDALL AMSTER, Professor & Head, Justice & Peace Studies; Environmental Studies, Georgetown University, USA	131
Neoliberal Bio-politics and the Animal Question GWEN HUNNICUTT, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA	151
Recognising the Role Eco-grief Plays in Responding to Environmental Degradation SANDRA ENGSTROM, Lecturer in Social Work, University of Stirling, Scotland	168
Kaleidoscope Curated by NILANJAN DUTTA, Associate Editor, JTPP	187
Book Review BANDANA PURKAYASTHA, Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USA & KOYEL KHAN, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology Department, University of Connecticut, USA	191

FORTHCOMING ISSUE

JTPP, for its second issue, invites submissions that explore the true human costs of social conflict on institutions, communities, and the public good which seems to be slowly eroding in the current era of populist and authoritarian politics the world over.

Please send us a 250-word abstract of your well-reasoned and thought provoking (single or co-authored) contribution to sibmission@jtpp.uk

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