Discourses of the Environment - Softcover

 
9780631211235: Discourses of the Environment
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631211233 ISBN 13: 9780631211235
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault.

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About the Author

Eric Darier is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change at Lancaster University (UK) and previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environmental Policy Unit, Queens University, Canada. His publications include Premises about 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, the Environment and Modern Subjectivities in Time and Society 7(2) September 1998.

From the Back Cover

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.

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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.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631211233
ISBN 13 
9780631211235
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
291
Editor
Darier Eric

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