Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relationship between culture and nature, showing how they are intimately and variously interrelated. Sarah Whatmore critically examines the opposition between culture and non-human; the social and the material; culture and nature, demonstrating that they are not antitheses. She: draws on highly topical theories ......
This text brings together major European writers, including Ulrich Beck, to discuss issues related to technology, risk and nature. The first section examines the "instrumentalization" of nature and the relation between science, technology and expert systems. These themes are elaborated in the second section by a discussion of the implication of technology (and risk) in late-modern ideas of the "self", individualization and reflexivity. The third section examines the institutionalization of enivironmentalism, the politics of ecology and the role that the social sciences can play in these debates.
In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of ......
An examination of the diverse implications of the idea of global identity, which brings a sociological focus to environmental issues, whilst testing and extending globalization theory. It explains the complex interrelation between environmentalism and globalization and it investigates globalization in the contested policy arena of the environment. The book also contends that mutual suspicion and fragmentation are the outcomes of competing visions of the globe's needs, and looks critically at how the "globality" of global issues is constructed and negotiated.
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.
This accomplished book argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. It asks whether there is an emerging consensus between social scientists on the central issues in the debate on environmental change, and if concerns about the environment constitute ......
