Christian Parenti

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Christian Parenti (2009)

Christian Parenti is an American sociologist , investigative journalist and professor at New York University , and the author of several books. The focus is on current international conflicts and climate change.

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Parenti's articles are mostly published in The Nation and he can also be heard regularly on Doug Henwood's radio show, Behind The News, KPFA, Berkeley, to discuss his work. He also writes for numerous other publications, including the London Review of Books , Mother Jones Magazine and Condé Nast Traveler .

In his latest work Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011) (German: In the Tropic of Chaos - Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence , Laika 2013) Parenti examines the connections between climate change and social and political unrest in the middle climates of the world. Parenti also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, West Africa and China.

Life

Parenti is the son of Michael Parenti , a political scientist and historian, and Susan Parenti, a Vermont-based artist. He graduated from the Buxton School in Williamstown , the New School for Social Research in New York and the London School of Economics , from which he received his Ph.D. received in sociology. Today he lives in Brattleboro and New York City .

Parenti is a professor of Liberal Studies at New York University . Previously, he was Professor of Sustainable Development at the School for International Training at the Graduate Institute in Washington, DC

Selected works

  • Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999) ISBN 1-85984-303-4
  • The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003) ISBN 0-465-05485-4
  • The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004) ISBN 1-56584-948-5
  • Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011)

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SURNAME Parenti, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century