Verena Andermatt Conley: Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · deep ecology, ecofeminism, ecology, environment, feminism, poststructuralism, structuralism
Ecopolitics is a study of environmental awareness – or non-awareness – in contemporary French theory. Arguing that it is now impossible not to think in an ecological way, Verena Andermatt Conley traces the roots of today’s concern for the environment back to the intellectual climate of the late 50s and 60s.
The author considers key texts by influential figures such as Michael Serres, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel de Certeau, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. Ecopolitics rehabilitates some ecological components of French intellectual thought of the past thirty years, and reassesses French poststructural thinkers who explicitly deal with ecology in their work.
Publisher Routledge, 1997
Opening Out: Feminism for Today Series
ISBN 0415102847, 9780415102841
188 pages
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Comments (2)Mario Diani, Doug McAdam (eds.): Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, community, environment, networks, politics, social movements
For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations; how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources both within movement milieus and between movement organizations and the political system; how network concepts and techniques may improve our grasp of the relationship between movements and elites, of the configuration of alliance and conflict structures, of the clustering of episodes of contention in protest cycles.Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes.
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2003
ISBN 0199251770, 9780199251773
Length 348 pages
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Joy Palmer, David Edward Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran (eds.): Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · ecology, environment
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present. Among those included are philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, activists such as Chico Mendes, literary giants such as Virgil, and major religious figures such as Gotama (The Buddha). Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415146992, 9780415146999
Length 321 pages
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deep ecology, Environmental Ethics, John Clare, social ecology, libertarian municipalism, Buddhism, Green politics, Robinson Jeffers, Rachel Carson, Taoism, Aldo Leopold, Chuang Tzu, Silent Spring, natural environment, anthropocentric, Lakota, Aristotle, land ethic, Goethe, Ian McHarg
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