Toward Climate Justice
Introduction: Eirik Eiglad
Translation: Stavros Karageorgakis
ISBN: 978-960-98812-6-5
Paperback: 200
Publisher (in Greek): Antigone Books, Thessaloniki, 2013
The call for Climate Justice promises a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that are already experiencing the impacts of global climate disruptions. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes.
Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions—including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies—and dissects the events that shaped the diplomatic failure of the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit.
Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward an ecological reconstruction of society.
Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont.
Tokar's most recent book is Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (2010) and he is co-editor of the new collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (2010). His other works include the classic book, The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? (2001) and Gene Traders (2004).
Tokar is a founding member of the activist network Climate SOS, and his articles on environmental issues and popular movements appear in Z Magazine and Synthesis/Regeneration, and on websites such as Counterpunch, ZNet, and Toward Freedom.
Tokar has lectured throughout the United States, as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as a passionate advocate of grassroots action for ecological sanity and global justice. He received a Project Censored Award for his investigative history of Monsanto Corporation (first published in The Ecologist), and was an organizer of the annual “Biojustice” protests against the biotechnology industry from 2000 - 2007.
Tokar holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics, and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University.
Animals and Ethics
Authors: Lori Gruen, Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Josephine Donovan
Translation: Kostas Alexiou, Fani Arabatzidou, Stavros Karageorgakis, Elizabeth Kolovou, Kostis Kourakis
Editor: Stavros Karageorgakis
Engravings: Lefki Sidiropoulou
ISBN: 978-960-98812-3-4
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher (in Greek): Antigone Books, Thessaloniki, 2012
Lori Gruen (born 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is a feminist philosopher who works at the intersections of ethical theory and ethical practice, with a particular focus on issues that impact those often overlooked in traditional ethical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, non-human animals. She has taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Lafayette College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Stanford University and is currently Professor of Philosophy, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. She also co-coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies.
Gruen is the author of the recently published Ethics and Animals: An Introduction. She also created the memorial for the first 100 chimpanzees used in research in the US: first100chimps.wesleyan.edu.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash University, and has held several other visiting appointments. Since 1999 he has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Peter Singer was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and with Helga Kuhse, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Outside academic life, is the co-founder and president of The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. He is also president of Animal Rights International.
Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of ANIMAL LIBERATION.
His other books include PRACTICAL ETHICS, THE EXPANDING CIRCLE, THE REPRODUCTION REVOLUTION (with Deane Wells), PUSHING TIME AWAY, and many others. He also co-authored THE GREENS with Bob Brown, founder of the Australian Greens. His works have appeared in 25 languages. He is the author of the major article on ethics in the current edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica. Two collections of his writings have been published: WRITINGS ON AN ETHICAL LIFE, which he edited, and UNSANCTIFYING HUMAN LIFE, edited by Helga Kuhse. Singer's most recent book, THE PRESIDENT OF GOOD AND EVIL: THE ETHICS OF GEORGE W. BUSH, was published in March, 2004.
Tom Regan (born November 28, 1938) is an American philosopher who specializes in animal rights theory. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001. Regan is the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights (1983), one of a handful of studies that have significantly influenced the modern animal rights movement. In these, he argues that non-human animals are what he calls the "subjects-of-a-life", just as humans are, and that, if we want to ascribe value to all human beings regardless of their ability to be rational agents, then to be consistent, we must similarly ascribe it to non-humans.
Josephine Donovan is the author of eight books of nonfiction and the editor of five. A complete list of her publications is provided below. Her fields of specialization include animal ethics, feminist criticism and theory, American women’s literature (especially nineteenth-century), and early modern women’s literature. Her work has been translated into six languages (Japanese, French, Turkish, Swedish, German, and Chinese).
Her most recent books include European Local-Color Literature: National Tales, Dorfgeschichten, Romans Champêtres (2010) and The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics, co-edited with Carol J. Adams (2007). Two of her books have been named “Outstanding Academic Books” by Choice journal (Feminist Theory and Women and the Rise of the Novel). The latter was termed “a work of extraordinary significance” by the Choice reviewer, who wrote, “Donovan has defined the field clearly, forthrightly, often brilliantly. All future discussion of the subject begins here” (October 2000).
Donovan’s best-known book, Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions, first published in 1985, is now in its fourth edition (New York: Continuum, 2012). Amazon.com notes, “this book has established itself as the classic survey and analysis of the roots and development of feminist theory.” A selection of other reviews of Donovan’s books follows below.
She has held academic positions at several universities and worked for a time as a Copy Editor for G. K. Hall in Boston. She recently retired early from her position as Professor of English (tenured) at the University of Maine, Orono, in order to devote full time to her writing.
She lives on the New England coast.
- Introduction, Stavros Karageorgakis
- Animals, Lori Gruen
- The Animal Liberation Movement, Peter Singer
- The Case for Animal Rights, Tom Regan
- Attention to Suffering, Sympathy as a Basis for Ethical Treatment of Animals, Josephine Donovan
Animal Liberation
Author: Peter Singer
Translation: Stavros Karageorgakis
ISBN: 978-960-98812-3-4
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher (in Greek): Antigone Books, Thessaloniki, 2010
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of “speciesism”—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them.
In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today’s “factory farms” and product-testing procedures—destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash University, and has held several other visiting appointments. Since 1999 he has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Peter Singer was the founding president of the International Association of Bioethics, and with Helga Kuhse, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Outside academic life, is the co-founder and president of The Great Ape Project, an international effort to obtain basic rights for chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. He is also president of Animal Rights International.
Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of ANIMAL LIBERATION. His other books include PRACTICAL ETHICS, THE EXPANDING CIRCLE, THE REPRODUCTION REVOLUTION (with Deane Wells), PUSHING TIME AWAY, and many others. He also co-authored THE GREENS with Bob Brown, founder of the Australian Greens. His works have appeared in 25 languages. He is the author of the major article on ethics in the current edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica. Two collections of his writings have been published: WRITINGS ON AN ETHICAL LIFE, which he edited, and UNSANCTIFYING HUMAN LIFE, edited by Helga Kuhse. Singer's most recent book, THE PRESIDENT OF GOOD AND EVIL: THE ETHICS OF GEORGE W. BUSH, was published in March, 2004.
Transformations of Identity: Nation, Modernity and the nationalist discourse
Author: Petros Theodoridis
ISBN: 960-92448-0-7
Paperback: 146 pages
Publisher (in Greek): Antigone Books, Thessaloniki, 2004
In his book Peter Theodoridis discusses the nature and course of the formation of national identity in modern societies. For the author, it is not the nation that determines nationalism but vice versa: Τhe divisive political ideology of nationalism establishes the collective identity of the nation as an horizontal fraternity, which legitimizes the post-traditional ways of political domination.
At the same time, Theodoridis analyses some of the main typologies of nationalism. The typologies correspond to the different functions of the nation-state, the citizenship, as well as the different versions of “identity politics”.
The author proposes the consideration nationalism as an active mental state of the members of the political community of the modern nation and, additionally, as a theory (doctrine) of political legitimation, the sources of which can be traced back to the French Revolution. According to the writer, the nation is a new community in relation to the traditional community. This community is distinguished by a ‘fictitious’ solidarity and a strong element of equity. Moreover, this community provides political legitimacy to a new type of state: the nation-state.
Theodoridis distinguishes the nation-state as a modern form of political organization from the traditional form of the state. The nation-state intervenes directly in almost all processes by which people participate in various social groups.
Theodoridis also draws the distinction between the ideology of nationalism that permeates the political nationalism, which has its origin in the Enlightenment thought, and the cultural nationalism that is rooted in the paradigm of romanticism.
Some of the core ideals of cultural nationalism include were the affinity for the Middle Ages, the notion of History as a force that is no less powerful than Nature and the concept of language as a vital source of popular collective consciousness.
Apart from the distinction between the political and cultural nationalism, the author draws a second distinction in respect to the 19th century nationalism. Until the mid-19th century, the rationalistic idea of harmony, progress and the integration of all nations into one new global rational community was prevalent in Europe. However, after the mid-19th century, the European space became narrower, nationalist ideologies proliferated and thus new ethnic groups emerged.
In the last three chapters, where the primary concern is the question of identity, the reader can sense an orientation of the reflection towards the direction of psychoanalysis.
The study by Petros Theodoridis raises issues and attempts interpretations that correspond to wide range of subjects concerning nationalism, calling us to confront them in a dispassionate and thoughtful manner. Is a concise guide for those who want to deal with the national identity critically and reflectively.
Ο Πέτρος Θεοδωρίδης γεννήθηκε το 1958 στην Ηράκλεια Σερρών. Σπούδασε πολιτική επιστήμη και παιδαγωγικά και συνέχισε τις μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές του στις Διεθνείς σχέσεις στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Φλωρεντίας, Διεθνείς σπουδές, Δημόσιο Δίκαιο και Πολιτική επιστήμη στα αντίστοιχα τμήματα του Νομικού τμήματος του Α.Π.Θ. Από το 1990 ασχολείται με τη μελέτη της εθνικιστικής ιδεολογίας και της εθνικής ταυτότητας, με αρθρογραφία σε περιοδικά πολιτικής επιστήμης.
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