Denaturalizing Ecological Politics

Denaturalizing Ecological Politics
Author: Andrew Biro
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0802037941

With Denaturalizing Ecological Politics, Andrew Biro has found a way of rescuing environmentalism from the ideological trap of naturalism.

Ecological Politics

Ecological Politics
Author: John Rensenbrink
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1498536999

Rejection of politics is deep and widespread. Even sincere and responsible individuals who practice it hold their nose while doing so. Yet politics must be practiced, and well, if the planet and the people are to survive. A clue for our future success as a species lies in the fact that ecology has never really been tried in politics. Yet ecology holds the secret of success for planet and people precisely in politics. Deep in ecology is the astounding fact, scientifically examined and attested to, that we are already related. Though taught by elite after elite that we are separate from nature and thus from everyone and everything, this can now be seen as the great mistake and a perpetuated lie from generation to generation. A new ontology of being related is the gateway of consciousness to a new and exciting politics for survival and democracy. Waves of transformation lap at barriers in the political sphere. But they are repulsed by an entrenched politics rooted not only in the greed and power hunger of a dominant few, or in outmoded structures of economic and political power, but in the old millennial ontology of being separate. Our extraordinary times call for a new political party animated by the ecology of being related. It is a party of a different kind, one that frees itself from giant worldwide corporations, is fully and overtly dedicated to non-violence and rooted in the awareness that the people come first. This party knows that elections must be fair and equal and must enable undistorted dialogue, and that people in government must not only proclaim but practice the principle of being of, for, and by the people. This book challenges The Green Party, now on a footing in over 100 countries, to be this party of a different kind.

Remaking Society

Remaking Society
Author: Murray Bookchin
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-02-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 184935443X

According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies. Drawing on rich traditions of ecological science, anthropology, history, utopian philosophy, and ethics, Remaking Society offers a coherent framework for social and ecological reconstruction. This innovative work on nature and society provides readers with clear strategies for averting disaster. In their foreword to this new edition of Remaking Society, Marina Sitrin and Debbie Bookchin show that remaking is a continuing project: “If hierarchy has deeply wounded our relationships with each other and the natural world, capitalism has plunged a knife that much more deeply into the wound. Capitalism, [Bookchin] believes, has distorted every aspect of political, social, and even personal life.… Our challenge then is to build movements everywhere that will preserve and expand our innate creativity and eradicate any tendencies toward hierarchy, status, or other forms of domination.”

Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory

Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory
Author: Mathew Humphrey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007-09-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1134380429

This volume examines the reasons why some despair at the prospects for an ecological form of democracy, and challenges the recent ‘deliberative turn’ in environmental political thought. Deliberative democracy has become popular for those seeking a reconciliation of these two forms of politics. Demand for equal access to a public forum in which the best argument will prevail appears to offer a way of incorporating environmental interests into the democratic process. This book argues that deliberative theory, far from being friendly to the environmental movement, shackles the ability those seeking radical change to make their voices heard in the most effective manner. Mathew Humphrey challenges beliefs about the relationship between ecological politics and democracy at a time when those who take direct action are being swept up in the War on Terror. By calling for a more open and contested form of democracy, in which the boundaries of what constitutes ‘acceptable’ behaviour are not decided in advance of actual debate, Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory is an original contribution to the literature on environmental politics, ecological thought and democracy.

The Politics of Nature

The Politics of Nature
Author: Andrew Dobson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 113480301X

A balanced and comprehensive survey of current green political ideas - their varying responses to fundamental problems in political theory and their relationships with other ideological traditions.

Second Nature

Second Nature
Author: Crina Archer
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0823251411

The essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the volume issues a call to think anew about nature, not only as a traditional concept that should be deconstructed or affirmed but also as a site of human political activity and struggle worthy of sustained theoretical attention.

Politics of Nature

Politics of Nature
Author: Bruno Latour
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2004-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674012899

What is to be done with politicl ecology? Qhy political ecology has to let go of nature; How to bring the collective together; A new separation of power; Skills for the collective; Exploring common worlds; What is to be done? political ecology.

A World of Many Worlds

A World of Many Worlds
Author: Marisol de la Cadena
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478004312

A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro