St. Lawrence Activists for Global Equity (SAGE) Coalition:
Recommended Books



The following book list is by no means exhaustive. In the future, a brief description/review of each book will be added. Some of the authors listed here have published many, many books; understandably, some of them may not be on this list. Vulnerable Planet Natural Causes Anti-Capitalism Caring for Profit Hungry for Profit 9-11 Global Spin Information Inequality First the Seed Against the Grain Resource Rebels Marx's Ecology Historical texts: Marx-All three volumes of Capital (which I am in the midst of reading for a class--foundation texts) Polanyi-The Great Transformation Braverman-Labor and Monopoly Capital O'Connor-Fiscal Crisis of the State Habermas-Legitimation Crisis Smith-Uneven Development (also env. text) rac/ethnicity - William Julius Wilson's "The Truly Disadvantaged" and "Bridge over the Racial Divide" Globalization texts: Sassen-The Global City Hardht and Negri-Empire Wolff book that I already mentioned - mostly because its extremely clear and systematic, and also by a well-reputed political theorist. I would also put Rousseau's "Social Contract" and Proudhon's "What is property?" as background reading. Other stuff - I would say Adrian Peacock's "200 Pharoahs, 5 billion slaves" even though I haven't finished it and there are some weird things about it. For people that can handle something denser, Ricardo Blaug's "Democracy, Real and Ideal" is a good discussion of the practicality of Jurgen Habermas' critical theory and complements Wolff. Introductions to Hegel and Kant are required reading for direct democracy as well. I wish I could give you examples of what I'm doing right now, but it isn't really done - I'm looking at Habermas with respect to the Zapatistas and Italian social centres. I will send something when ready, but try to link to Naomi Klein's "Three Coins in a Centri Sociali" if you can. Oh, I'll attach an article about the CS that I acquired from a journal here. Environment texts: Braun and Castree (Ed)-Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium Faber (Ed)-The Struggle for Ecological Democracy Hays-Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency Foucault-Discipline and Punish Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine Gupta, Post-Colonial Developments Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity Ferguson and Escobar build on Foucault in a discourse analysis of Development (including the all hated IFI's). So, I second Jason's suggestion of reading a bit of Foucault (it's French it must be good). Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History



Globalization and Development

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis, MN: Univeristy of Minnesota

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand. 2000. Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-187-2

Barber, Benjamin. 1996. Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN: 0-345-38304-4

Barnet, Richard and John Cavanagh. 1994. Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN: 0-671-63377-5 (hardcover)

Daly, Herman. 1996. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN: 0-8070-4709-0

Danaher, Kevin, ed. 1996. Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Momma: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-112-0

Danaher, Kevin, ed. 2000. Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-196-1

Danaher, Kenvin, ed. 2001. Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the World Bank and the IMF. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-208-9

Greider, William. 1998. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Touchstone. ISBN: 0-684-83554-1

Kim, Jim Yong, Joyce Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman, eds. 2000. Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56761-160-0

Korten, David. 1995. When Corporations Rule the World. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. ISBN: 1-887208-01-1

Mander, Jerry and Edward Goldsmith, eds. 1996. The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn to the Local. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN: 0-87156-865-9

O'Brien, Robert, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, and Marc Williams. 2000. Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-77440-3

Ong, Aihwa. 1999. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Redclift, Michael. 1987. Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 0-415-05085-5

Schumacher, E.F. 1973. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. New York: Harper and Row. ISBN: 0-06-091630-3

Wallach, Lori and Michelle Sforza. 1999. Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy. Washington, DC: Public Citizen. ISBN: 1-58231-001-7



American History and Current Events

Kazin, Michael. 1995. The Populist Persuasion: An American History. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 0-465-05998-8

Zinn, Howard. 1995. A People's History of the United States 1492 - Present. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN: 0-06-092643-0



The Environment/Environmental Movements

Bari, Judi. 1994. Timber Wars. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-026-4

Brown, Phil and Edwin Mikkelsen. 1990. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-08043-2

Bryant, Bunyan and Paul Mohai. 1992. Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: A Time for Discourse. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN: 0-8133-8513-x

Bullard, Robert. 1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN: 0-8133-6792-1

Bullard, Robert, ed. 1993. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN: 0-89608-446-9

Collinson, Helen, ed. 1996. Green Guerrillas: Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN: 0-85345-980-0

Dowie, Mark. 1996. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT University Press. ISBN: 0-262-54084-3

Dunlap, Riley and Angela Mertig, eds. 1992. American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990. Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis. ISBN: 0-8448-1730-9

Gadgil, Madhav and Ramachandra Guha. 1992. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-08296-6

Gedicks, Al. 1993. The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN: 0-09608-462-0

Gould, Kenneth, Allan Schnaiberg, and Adam Weinberg. 1996. Local Environmental Struggles: Citizen Activism in the Treadmill of Production. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0-521-55521-3

Kazis, Richard and Richard Grossman. 1983. Fear at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor, and the Environment Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.

Kuletz, Valerie. 1998. The Tainted Desert: Environmnetal Ruin in the American West. New York: Routledge.

Schnaiberg, Allan. 1980. The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-195-02611-X

Schnaiberg, Allan and Kenneth Gould. Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN: 0-312-09128-1

Shiva, Vandana. 1989. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN: 0-862-32823-3

Shiva, Vandana. 1993. Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books. ISBN: 1-85649-218-4

Szasz, Andrew. 1994. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0-8166-2175-6

Taylor, Bron, ed. 1995. Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. ISBN: 0-7914-2646-7



Fiction and Poetry

Alvarez, Julia. 1994. In the Time of Butterflies. New York: Plume. ISBN: 0-452-27442-7

Baraka, Amiri. 1995. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, William Harris, ed. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN: 1-56025-007-0

Giardina, Denise. 1994. Storming Heaven. Ivy Books. ISBN: 0-80410-297-X

Giardina, Denise. 1994. The Unquiet Earth. Ivy Books. ISBN: 0-80411-144-8



Humor

Franken, Al. 1996. Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. New York: Island Books. ISBN: 0-440-22330-x

Franken, Al. 1999. Why Not Me? The Inside Story of the Making and the Unmaking of the Franken Presidency. New York: Delta. ISBN: 0-385-33454-0

Hightower, Jim. 1998. There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN: 0-06-0092949-9

Moore, Michael. 1997. Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN: 0-06-097733-7

Moore, Michael and Kathleen Glynn. 1998. Adventures in a TV Nation. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN: 0-06-098809-6



Media and Cultural Studies

Solomon, Norman. 1997. The Trouble with Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-132-5

Stauber, John and Sheldon Rampton. 1995. Toxic Sludge is Good For You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-060-4



Native American Issues

Brown, Dee. 1970. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN: 553-07077-195

Churchill, Ward. 1993. Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide and Expropriation in Contempoary North America. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. ISBN: 1-56751-000-0

Matthiessen, Peter. 1991. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN: 0-14-014456-0



Race and Ethnicity

Du Bois, W.E.B. 1978. On Sociology and the Black Community. Dan Green and Edwin Driver, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-16760-7

Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0-674-01821-4



Science and Technology

Apffel-Marglin, F. and S. A. Marglin, eds. 1996. Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue. Oxford: Oxford University.

Beck, Ulrich. 1999. World Risk Society. Cambridge: Polity.

Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Crary, Jonathan and Sanford Kwinzer, eds. 1992. Incorporations. New York: Zone.

Downey, Gary Lee and Joseph Dumit, eds. 1997. Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies. Sante Fe: School of American Research.

Feenberg, Andrew and Alastair Hannay, eds. 1995. Technology and the Politics of Knowledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Harding, Sandra, ed. 1993. The "Racial" Ecology of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Bloomington: Indiana Press.

Hacker, Sally, ed. 1989. Pleasure, Power and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering and the Cooperative Workplace. Boston: Unwin-Hyman.

Jasanoff, Sheila. 1990. The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. Cambridge: Harvard University.

Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph jr. 1988. First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kuhn, Thomas. 1996 (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Third Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-45808-3

Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Law, John. 1991. A Sociology of Monsters? Essays on Power, Technology and Domination. London: Routledge.

Levins, Richard and Richard Lewontin. 1985. The Dialectical Biologist Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Mander, Jerry. 1991. In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN: 0-87156-509-9

Mumford, Lewis. 1934. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harvest Books. ISBN: 0-15-688254-x

Mumford, Lewis. 1966. The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

Mumford, Lewis. 1970. The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

Nelkin, Dorothy. 1995. Selling Science: How the Press Covers Science and Technology. New York: Freeman.

Nelson, L.H. and J. Nelson. 1995. Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science: A Dialog. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Press

Noble, David. 1977. America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-502618-7

Nye, David E. 1994. American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Perrow, Charles. 1984. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. New York: Basic Books. ISBN: 0-465-05412-1

Rifkin, Jeremy. 1995. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era. New York: Putnam. ISBN: 0-87477-824-7

Robertson, George, et al, eds. 1996. FutureNatural: Nature, Science, Culture. London: Routledge.

Rouse, Joseph. 1996. Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically. Ithaca, NY: Cornell.

Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. 1985. Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University.

Shiva, Vandana. 1997. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston: South End Press. ISBN: 0-89608-555-4

Shiva, Vandana. 2000. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. Boston: South End Press. ISBN: 089608-607-0

Star, Susan Leigh. 1995. Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology. Albany, NY: SUNY.

Taylor, Peter, Saul Halfon, and Paul Edwards, eds. 1997. Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

Wright, Will. 1992. Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 0-8166-2051-2



The Zapatistas

Collier, George and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello. 1999. Basta! Land & the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas. Oakland, CA: First Food Books. ISBN: 0-935028-79-x

Regional Cases:



North America

Fisher, Stephen, ed. 1993. Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 0-87722-977-5

Hurley, Andrew. 1995. Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945 - 1980. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 0-8078-4518-3

Knott, Catherine Henshaw. 1998. Living with the Adirondack Forest: Local Perspectives on Land Use Conflicts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.



Africa

Hyden, Goran. 1980. Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevolpment and an Uncaptured Peasantry. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-04017-1

Maddox, Gregory, James Giblin, and Isaria Kimambo, eds. 1996. Custodians of the Land: Ecology & Culture in the History in Tanzania. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. ISBN: 0-8214-1134-9



Central and South America

Freeman, Carla. 2000. High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Indentities in the Carribean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.



Asia

Mills, Mary Beth. 1999. Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

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