Darier

Discourses of the Environment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Discourses of the Environment is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault. The contributors examine the proliferation of discourses about the environment that have emerged from all areas of society in the past 30 years. The book helps the reader to make sense of the significance of environmental legislation, regulation, institution-building, the growth of environmental movements and eco-warriors, and new environmental practices such as recycling and green consumerism. The volume examines issues of current public and academic debate such as the construction of environmental awareness; the role of "knowledge" and "scientific" knowledge in defining legitimate environmental issues; and how and why concerns for the environment translate into new environmental social practices. The international team of contributors draw on a range of theoretical and critical concepts to address the many questions about the environment within the broader debate around modernity and postmodernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780631211228
• ISBN-10: 0631211225
• Artikelnr.: 24852323

Autorenporträt

Eric Darier is a Research Associate at the Centre for theStudy of Environmental Change at Lancaster University (UK) andpreviously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environmental Policy Unit,Queens University, Canada. His publications include Premisesabout Environmental Studies in Context: Knowledge, Language,History and the Self in Michael D. Metha & Eric Ouellet(Eds.) Environmental Sociology: Theory and Practice(Toronto: Captus Press, 1995) and Time to be Lazy: Work, theEnvironment and Modern Subjectivities in Time andSociety 7(2) September 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes On Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Part I Histories.

Part II Environmentalities.

Part III Resistances.

Bibliography.

Rezensionen

"provides a stimulating read and a path through post-structuralistterrain." Yvonne Rydin, London School of Economics

"Discourses of the Environment represents an importantcontribution to addressing the links between poststructuralism andthe environment. The divergent analyses are engaging and shouldprovide material for debate and inquiry. Environmental theoristsand practitioners will find this book of benefit, although thenovelty of this intellectual effort should diminish as scholarsrecognise the important links between Foucault and nature."Local Environment

'In Discourses of the Environment Eric Darier bringstogether nine scholars from a variety of disciplines who are allworking on environmental issues from the broad perspective providedby the work of the late Michel Foucault. The result is an importantand challenging contribution to the understanding of theenvironment as a central problem of modern societies and as anobject of study across the natural and human sciences.' -- JamesTully, University of Victoria

'Darier's Discourses of the Environment makes a majorcontributors to a debate that really deserves to be broader than ithas been. Bringing the breakthrough political theory of MichelFoucault to the environmental movement, the book is so compellingthat it makes one wonder why such an approach has been so rare.'--Bill Chaloupka, University of Montana