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Socialist Project
April 23, 2018
Celalis, Daesh, Black Hundreds: Christian Parenti has offered a similar prognosis in his Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. 'Damaged societies, like damaged people, often respond to new crisis in ways that are irrational, shortsighted, and self-destructive,' and theÃâà...
Red Pepper
April 5, 2018
What's more, one of the contributors, Christian Parenti, actually proposes that we should increase our total energy use, not reduce it. Any critique of this kind of utopian vision is often dismissed as green conservatism. In her article, “We gave Greenpeace a chance”, Angela Nagle argues: faced with PresidentÃâà...
Bennington Banner
March 20, 2018
Bennington College: Christian Parenti presents "Our Impending Crisis: Climate Change, Failing Elites, and Economic Transformation," 7 to 8:15 p.m., CAPA Symposium, 1 College Drive, Bennington. LITERARY Bennington College: Poetry reading with Robin Coste Lewis, 7 to 8 p.m., Tishman Lecture Hall,Ãâà...
AlterNet
March 16, 2018
Sociologist Christian Parenti describes what we have now as the "catastrophic convergence." Whether it be the small farmer attempting to etch out a living in the scrambling seasons and inconsistent rainfall, or the migrant worker who has moved to one of the world's megacities about to be inundated [by] theÃâà...
cuindependent
March 3, 2018
He was not only theoretically knowledgeable but also an invigorating and inspiring figure. I would like to encourage CU student groups to bring more speakers like Seale, rather than trolls like Yiannopoulos and pseudoscientists like Charles Murray. Cornel West, Christian Parenti, Richard Seymour andÃâà...
Real Change News
February 28, 2018
Free Peltier. Book: Prison Writings. My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier. Review by Timothy Harris., Page 6 … And Cages For All. Book: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti. Review by Scott Winn, Page 6. Poetry Ain't Pretty. Book: Erratic Sleep in a ColdÃâà...
Common Dreams
February 28, 2018
Some, like the Jamaican Maroons, signed treaties to coexist with European colonial powers. Contemporary author Christian Parenti, interviewing Assata Shakur in Havana, called her a “Post-Modern Maroon in the Ultimate Palenque.” "Not only does the film take on the political economy of colonialism inÃâà...
Real Change News
February 27, 2018
Free Peltier. Book: Prison Writings. My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier. Review by Timothy Harris., Page 6 … And Cages For All. Book: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti. Review by Scott Winn, Page 6. Poetry Ain't Pretty. Book: Erratic Sleep in a ColdÃâà...
LancasterOnline
February 24, 2018
LECTURE: The Paul J. McInerney Lecture in Earth Sciences will host Christian Parenti from 7-8 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in Clair Hall at the Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center at Millersville University, 60 W. Cottage Ave., Millersville. Parenti will present “Coping with Crisis: Climate Change andÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
January 19, 2018
“Catastrophic convergence” is the term sociologist Christian Parenti uses to describe this 21st century turmoil of compounding ecological, political and economic crises. As Camila Minerva of Oxfam puts it, “The poorest and the most marginalized are five times more likely to be displaced and remain so for aÃâà...
Truth-Out
December 25, 2017
"Left Out," a podcast produced by Paul Sliker, Michael Palmieri and Dante Dallavalle, creates in-depth conversations with the most interesting political thinkers, heterodox economists and organizers on the left. In this episode, we sat down with Christian Parenti to discuss climate change and our currentÃâà...
BillMoyers.com
September 6, 2017
This post first appeared at Jacobin Magazine. The climate crisis is often imagined as a sudden, all-encompassing, simultaneous collapse in which agriculture fails, the seas flood in, disease spreads and human civilization crumbles into Hobbesian war of all against all. But in reality, some crises will appearÃâà...
BillMoyers.com
September 6, 2017
The effects of climate change are already upon us. Here's what the 2020s and 2030s will look like if we fail to change things. By Christian Parenti | September 6, 2017. What Will Happen If We Fail to Address the Climate Crisis. Mayabel Rents waits for a bus next to a flooded street that was caused by the combination of theÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
August 31, 2017
If We Fail. By: Christian Parenti. The effects of climate change are already upon us. Here's what the 2020s and 2030s will look like if we fail to change things. Our new issue, “The Health of Nations,” is out now. Subscribe or renew today!
The Real News Network
August 30, 2017
Christian Parenti is associate professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of four books, including Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. His most recent book is Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of ViolenceÃâà...
Truthdig
June 24, 2017
Hedges sits down with NYU professor and author Christian Parenti for a discussion on how the effects of climate change incite global violence. Parenti's latest book, "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence," examines how climate change interacts with economic neoliberalismÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
April 1, 2017
You have to give the political right credit. In recent months, they have, Judo-style, baited the campus left into bumptious overreactions that have seen student activists at Middlebury, UC Berkeley, and a few other places calling on university administrations to shut down — that is, censor — vile speakers likeÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
November 22, 2016
Leaning into the mic, face flushed, speaking with unhurried and angry deliberation, Donald Trump told a cheering New Hampshire audience: “We're gonna bring businesses back. We're gonna have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire, that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire. AndÃâà...
Truth-Out
May 17, 2015
On April 19, 2014, I sat down with author, journalist and professor Christian Parenti in Chicago. His work, which is wide-ranging and essential, explores some of the most powerful and brutal forces in our society: war, capitalism, prisons, policing and climate change. We discussed the state, nature, climateÃâà...
Truth-Out
May 12, 2015
On April 19, 2014, I sat down with author, journalist and professor Christian Parenti in Chicago. His work, which is wide-ranging and essential, explores some of the most powerful and brutal forces in our society: war, capitalism, prisons, policing and climate change. In this interview, we discussed ideology,Ãâà...
Monthly Review
April 1, 2014
It was an honor to have my essay “A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis,” from the summer 2013 issue of Dissent, “read with interest” by the editors of Monthly Review, even if the editors took issue with my argument that the timeframe of climate science indicates that getting off fossil fuels must happenÃâà...
Brooklyn Rail
July 11, 2011
Christian Parenti is a contributing editor of the Rail and the Nation and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Nation Books) is based on more than six years ofÃâà...
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