ANTHROPOLOGY 95A: Culture and Global Environmental Problems

FALL 2008

 

 

Links Page for Anthropology 95

This brief list of links is not meant to be comprehensive, since it would be impossible to cover all the relevant sites and counter-sites for this course. Rather, use this as a jumping off point to explore on your own. If you would like me to add any key links or if any here are dead, let me know.

Homepage of our course text book Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism

Free Trade and Consumer Culture

WTO

Unraveling the 1998 Global Financial Crisis

NAFTA links

Public Citizen Report on NAFTA

Richard Wilk article on Global Consumer Culture

Global Issues - Over 3000 links to external articles, web sites reports and analysis. Issues include: poverty, Kosovo, East Timor, mainstream media and conflicts in Africa, human rights, women's rights, racism, the arms trade, children and the military, military expansion and more.

www.subvertise.org - Hundreds of images and cartoons covering a spectrum of issues including transport, war, climate-change, racism, genetics, corporations, sexuality, education, and globalisation, all carrying the same message - that people and the planet should be put before corporate profits. Many graphics are available for download, to be reprinted in newspapers, magazines and websites

Adbusters

Affluenza

Environmental

The State of the Environment: Trouble in Paradise

World Wide Fund for Nature

Conservation International

The Nature Conservancy

Rethinking Tourism Project

Cree

Grand Council of the Cree.

Dams and Indian Rights

Canadian Arctic Resouce Center

Native Net

Hydro-Quebec

Rain Forests

Rain Forest Facts

Costa Rican Rain Forests

Amazon Interactive

International Treaties related to Biodiversity

Rainforest Information Centre

World Wide Fund for Nature

Selected Development Organizations and Critics

World Bank
United Nations Development Programme
IMF
USAID
CARE
Interamerican Development Bank
World Health Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization
People-Centered Development Forum
Redefining Progress
Global Development and Environment Institute
Society for Applied Anthropology

Indigenous Rights and Movements

Accion Zapatista A good place to start searches on the Zapatistas and solidarity networks.

Understanding Chiapas

Survival International

 

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