Life in the Anthropocene
Audio 48:30
"Chicago heat wave summer 1995, social autopsy of a disaster", by Eric Klinenberg and "The man who stopped the desert", by Damien Deville and Yacouba Sawadogo.
© Éditions deux-cent-cinq / Tana éditions
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
- United States: in July 1995, a heat wave hit Chicago causing the death of more than 700 people in one week.
The American sociologist Eric Klinenberg has dissected the impact of this heat wave in a book finally published in French:
Chicago, heat wave summer 1995, social autopsy of a disaster,
published by Deux-cent-Cinq.
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- Burkina Faso:
since the 1980s, Yacouba Sawadogo reforests the desert lands around his native village Gourga, in the north of the country.
After 40 years of efforts, the result is there: a forest of 40 hectares was born.
The geographer and anthropologist Damien Deville tells this story with Yacouba Sawadogo in
The man who stopped the desert,
published by Tana éditions.
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