{"title":"Books by Avi Brisman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781439923016","title":"Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms","description":"How does culture influence human relationships with the environment? In \u003ci\u003eMonstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms\u003c\/i\u003e, green cultural criminologists Avi Brisman and Nigel South examine stories of monsters and disasters to address how the ways we depict and think about harms to the environment dissuade us from taking care of our planet and each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The authors use examples from popular culture, including Disney and Marvel Cinematic Universe films, to consider ideas about how the environment responds to people who cause it harm. Brisman and South identify and discuss three dominant and interrelated depictions of the relationship between humans and the environment: first, nature as \u003ci\u003emonstrous\u003c\/i\u003e or fear inducing; second, nature and the Earth (or parts of it) as \u003ci\u003eabject\u003c\/i\u003e; and third, the entanglement of nature and the \u003ci\u003eapocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, wherein nature is contributing to the end of the world, with an end point sometimes conceptualized as one without humans.​\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms\u003c\/i\u003e argues that such representations have material consequences. The authors make the case for challenging them so that we neither perpetuate them nor retreat into cynicism and defeatism about the future of our planet.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299715035509,"sku":"9781439923016","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781439923016_30cd5c06-9d09-4fcb-8ee3-2ae6fbe7e418.jpg?v=1786020584"},{"product_id":"9783031766336","title":"Direct Action as Conceptual Art?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest. Focusing on ecodefense, it explores the significance of the communiqué (the written explanation of the reasons for an act of ecodefense), comparing the communiqué to written texts in Conceptual art. It presents and seeks to evaluate the following analogy: \u003cstrong\u003eact of ecodefense : communiqué :: work of conceptual art : written declaration\/statement\u003c\/strong\u003e. By considering the communiqué in this light, this book helps us better comprehend the rationales for “radical environmentalism” undertaken for the purposes of reducing environmental harms, natural resource exploitation, and animal abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420222009717,"sku":"9783031766336","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783031766336_7d531490-20e5-4a8a-b73e-03915ee7769e.jpg?v=1786035056"},{"product_id":"climate-change-as-a-crisis-of-imagination","title":"Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eStories have always enabled people to make sense of the world and others, and this book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. This book proposes that, while climate change may be a result of policy failures and the incompatibility of capitalism with our finite resources, climate change represents a crisis of imagination — an inability to articulate a differentiated collective problem in ways that inspire, motivate and prompt individual and shared responses to larger but common goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering the contrasting perspectives of writer Amitav Ghosh and theorist Mark Bould, this book reconciles their views for criminologists and all those concerned about — and working towards avoiding — catastrophic climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504953368949,"sku":"9781529235715","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"geometries-of-crime","title":"Geometries of Crime","description":"This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The book proposes tools for developing a more elaborate and robust understanding of what constitutes crime, identifying those affected by it, and what is deemed adequate or appropriate punishment. In so doing, it offers thick description of young peoples' conceptions of and experiences with crime, delinquency, justice and law, and uses this description to interrogate the role of the state in influencing - indeed, shaping - these perceptions.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57759923929461,"sku":"9781137546197","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781137546197.jpg?v=1794486291"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-avi-brisman.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}