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Empty Hands, Open Arms de Deni Ellis Béchard

Empty Hands, Open Arms

Autor Deni Ellis Béchard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2013

Apreciem modul în care Empty Hands, Open Arms depășește granițele unui simplu studiu despre viața sălbatică, oferind în cele 320 de pagini o analiză profundă a modului în care comunitățile umane și supraviețuirea speciilor sunt indisolubil legate. Autorul Deni Ellis Béchard ne introduce în universul bonobo — rudele noastre genetice cele mai apropiate, alături de cimpanzei — printr-o perspectivă care pune sub semnul întrebării metodele tradiționale de conservare. În loc să privească protecția mediului ca pe o izolare a naturii de influența umană, volumul demonstrează succesul unui model postcolonial: investiția în oameni prin școli și locuri de muncă pentru a opri eradicarea speciilor. Merită menționat că textul este construit pe baza călătoriilor extinse ale autorului în Congo și Rwanda, zone devastate de conflicte armate și exploatări miniere agresive. Stilul narativ este unul angajat, transformând datele ecologice în portrete vii ale indivizilor care luptă pentru schimbare. Pe aceeași linie cu The Bonobos de Jo Thompson, care se concentrează pe cercetarea științifică și ecologie, Empty Hands, Open Arms pune un accent mai puternic pe factorul social și politic, transformând conservarea într-o mișcare virală de responsabilitate colectivă. Recomandăm acest volum pentru abordarea sa practică: nu este doar o pledoarie pentru salvarea unei specii, ci un manual de reinventare a intervenției internaționale într-o lume globalizată. Față de alte lucrări ale autorului, precum Into the Sun, unde acesta explorează tensiunile sociale prin prisma ficțiunii în zone de conflict, aici Béchard folosește jurnalismul de teren pentru a documenta o soluție reală la o criză biologică iminentă. Este o lectură care echilibrează rigoarea observației cu o viziune plină de speranță asupra capacității umane de a repara ceea ce a distrus.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781571313409
ISBN-10: 1571313400
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Milkweed Editions

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de ecologie, sociologie sau etică globală. Dincolo de fascinanta lume a primatelor bonobo, veți descoperi cum soluțiile economice locale pot salva biodiversitatea mai eficient decât marile organizații internaționale. Este un studiu de caz esențial despre cum umanitatea poate coexista cu natura în zone de conflict, oferind un model de conservare demn de urmat în secolul XXI.

Despre autor

Deni Ellis Béchard este un autor premiat și jurnalist recunoscut pentru abordarea sa empatică și riguroasă a subiectelor complexe din zonele de conflict. Experiența sa vastă de călătorie în regiuni precum Afganistan, Congo sau Rwanda îi permite să scrie cu o autoritate rară despre intersecția dintre politică, societate și mediu. Lucrările sale, fie că sunt de beletristică sau non-ficțiune, explorează adesea teme legate de identitate și supraviețuire, Béchard fiind o voce importantă în literatura contemporană care militează pentru o înțelegere mai profundă a responsabilității umane față de lumea înconjurătoare.

Descriere scurtă

When acclaimed author Deni Béchard first learned of the last living bonobos—matriarchal great apes that are, alongside the chimpanzee, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom—he was completely astonished. How could the world possibly accept the extinction of this majestic species?

Béchard discovered one relatively small NGO, the Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI), which has done more to save bonobos than many far larger organizations. Based on the author’s extensive travels in the Congo and Rwanda, this book explores BCI's success, offering a powerful, truly postcolonial model of conservation. In contrast to other traditional conservation groups Béchard finds, BCI works closely with Congolese communities, addressing the underlying problems of poverty and unemployment, which lead to the hunting of bonobos. By creating jobs and building schools, they gradually change the conditions that lead to the eradication of the bonobos.

This struggle is far from easy. Devastated by the worst military conflict since World War II, the Congo and its forests continue to be destroyed by aggressive logging and mining. Béchard's fascinating and moving account—filled with portraits of the extraordinary individuals and communities who make it all happen offers a rich example of how international conservation must be reinvented before it's too late.

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Advance Praise for Empty Hands, Open Arms

“Here is the matter of conservation given profound explanation—a searching and knowing consideration that enables an important social and political and cultural struggle in Africa to become a needed lesson for us who live elsewhere to ponder, take to heart.”
—Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

“Into the Congo, this adventure reveals not a heart of darkness but a rich world of light, shade, and imperiled life, a connection between the human and the great circle of being.”
—James Engell, Editor of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology

“An inspired, poignant, and seriously researched look at a subject of profound importance.”
—Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and author of The Serpent and the Rainbow

“A story that movingly illuminates the time we live in, a tale of an emblematic struggle in which the fate of all of us and our future on this planet are at stake.”
—Bruce Rich, author of Mortgaging the Earth and To Uphold the World

“An emotionally-enthralling, nuanced voyage into the conundrums of bonobo conservation.”
—William Powers, author of Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa’s Fragile Edge

“A brilliant example of how conservationists can work with communities to save not only their own immediate environments but also the world at large through courage, cooperation and compassion.”
—Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of Imperial Masquerade and Shadow Woman

“Readers of this book will be entertained and moved by Deni Béchard’s stories about this remarkable endangered and irreplaceable species and those dedicating their lives to saving them.”
—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations

“The embodiment of the type of reporting that we dream of reading, but all too rarely encounter—intelligent, engaged, and above all, astonishingly perceptive.”
—Dinaw Mengestu, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

“Béchard’s riveting journey through the ‘dark continent’ provides a surprisingly uplifting story about a radically different and successful conservation program.”
—David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature

Reviews for Empty Hands, Open Arms

"Journalist Béchard, a foreign correspondent familiar with war zones, probes beneath headlines describing the Congo as 'a country of such inhumanity that we find it incomprehensible' and finds another, more hopeful reality.... Béchard's adventurous travels in the Congo offer spice to this rich, complex account."
—Kirkus Reviews

"For this absorbing report on the BCI’s innovative methods, renowned journalist Béchard mingled with Congo villagers and BCI fieldworkers, observing how the conservationists forged alliances with villagers to build new schools and create jobs. In a country torn by unremitting military strife and rapacious mining, BCI’s work has also helped slow rain-forest destruction. Béchard’s masterful, adventure-driven reporting delivers an inspiring account of an all-too-rare ecological success story."
—Carl Hays, Booklist

"A poignant exploration of a unique model of international conservation that re-imagines intervention for the for the benefit of both ecosystems and local communities."—Vancouver Sun

"A book that not only provides a rare ray of positivity in an often gloomy field but helps outsiders make sense of the Congo."—Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette

“A vivid, inspiring book, imbued with Bechard’s keen eye for detail.”—Maisonneuve

Praise for Deni Béchard

"Stunningly poignant." —O, The Oprah Magazine

"Béchard has a voice and a vision all his own, both tough-minded and passionately emotional." —Kirkus Reviews

"A clearly gifted writer." —Robert Olen Butler

Notă biografică

Deni Béchard's first novel, Vandal Love, won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He has also authored a memoir, Cures for Hunger, and written for a number of magazines and newspapers, among them the LA Times, Salon, Outside, the National Post, VQR, Maisonneuve, Le Devoir, the Harvard Review, and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin . He has been a fellow at MacDowell, Jentel, the Edward Albee Foundation, Ledig House, the Anderson Center, and Vermont Studio Center, among others. He has done freelance reporting from Northern Iraq as well as from Afghanistan, and he has traveled in more than fifty countries.

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“Here is the matter of conservation given profound explanation—a searching and knowing consideration that enables an important social and political and cultural struggle in Africa to become a needed lesson for us who live elsewhere to ponder, take to heart.”
—Robert Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

“Into the Congo, this adventure reveals not a heart of darkness but a rich world of light, shade, and imperiled life, a connection between the human and the great circle of being.”
—James Engell, Editor of Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology and Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment

“An inspired, poignant, and seriously researched look at a subject of profound importance.”
—Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and author of The Serpent and the Rainbow

“A story that movingly illuminates the time we live in, a tale of an emblematic struggle in which the fate of all of us and our future on this planet are at stake.”
—Bruce Rich, author of Mortgaging the Earth and To Uphold the World

“An emotionally-enthralling, nuanced voyage into the conundrums of bonobo conservation.”
—William Powers, author of Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa’s Fragile Edge

“A brilliant example of how conservationists can work with communities to save not only their own immediate environments but also the world at large through courage, cooperation, and compassion.”
—Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of Imperial Masquerade and Shadow Woman

“Readers of this book will be entertained and moved by Deni Béchard’s stories about this remarkable endangered and irreplaceable species and those dedicating their lives to saving them.”
—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations

“The embodiment of the type of reporting that we dream of reading, but all too rarely encounter—intelligent, engaged, and above all, astonishingly perceptive.”
—Dinaw Mengestu, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

“Béchard’s riveting journey through the ‘dark continent’ provides a surprisingly uplifting story about a radically different and successful conservation program.”
—David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature