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The issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works. This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions. The United States' growing prison industrial complex is discussed. The author concludes with a call for reassessing current ways of living and proposes recreating cultures of conservation and sustainable economies.

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In this book, Kunnie (Univ. of Arizona), scholar of religion and indigenous peoples, educates, elucidates, and exposes an alternative meaning of globalization. Sold to the world as gatherers of all, many globalization practices instead become medieval; those in the developed world lord it over the world's impoverished and unhappy, who are unfortunate not from lack of capitalism but because of it. Kunnie aims to focus attention on the reality that, like colonialism, the current globalizing habits of usurping sacred practices and knowledge of indigenous people and impoverishing them through expropriation of water, air, land, and other resources for "development" makes these people as expendable as the species of now-extinct animals. In addition to describing the pitfalls of globalization, the author also includes thoughts on how to enact changes to this system. This is a very scholarly rendering of the devastating tale told in Annie Leonard's short film "The Story of Stuff" (2007). The book includes an extensive glossary of acronyms, notes, supporting tables and photos, and a bibliography, all well indexed. Of abundant and renewable use to students of business, anthropology, economics, sociology, gender, and transnational and cultural studies as well as to practitioners and concerned human rights activists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners; general readers. --Jackson Q. Vance, Walla Walla Community College

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Julian E. Kunnie is a professor, activist researcher, and advocate for the Earth Mother and Indigenous peoples in Turtle Island (North America), Africa, and globally for almost five decades. His publications include four books and numerous articles on Indigenous decolonization of social work and Black/Indigenous studies. He works with the International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation and the Black Alliance for Peace.