Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity

Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity
Author: Tom Jagtenberg
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 327
Release: 1996-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1452248524

Addressing a growing need to examine environmental issues from a cultural perspective, this innovative book adopts a cultural studies approach to reach a deeper understanding of the significance of ecological issues in our lives. Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity explores such vital questions as: Can nature survive? How do academic disciplines engage with environmental crises? And, how do we map sustainable futures? The authors, Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie, bring a body of relevant literature into the debate - that stems from both cultural and environmental issues - as well as their own multidisciplinary perspectives on the subject.

Post-Secular Society

Post-Secular Society
Author: Gustaaf Geeraerts
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 135129606X

Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the West is often seen as marked by both innovation and disarray. In spite of differing approaches and perspectives of secularization, rational choice and de-secularization, many scholars agree that the West is experiencing a general "resurgence" of religion across most Western societies. Post-Secular Society discusses the changes in religion related to globalization and New Age forms of popular religion. The contributors review religion that is rooted in the globalized political economy and the relationship of post-secularism to popular consumer culture. Also reviewed is innovative discourse as a religious belief system, theories of the post-secular, religious, and spiritual well-being, and healing practices in Finland and environmentalism. This paperback edition includes a new preface by Peter Nynas.

Ecological Modernisation Around the World

Ecological Modernisation Around the World
Author: Arthur P.J. Mol
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317994809

The idea of ecological modernisation originated in Western Europe in the 1980s, gaining attention around the world by the late 1990s. At the core of this social scientific and policy-oriented approach is the view that contemporary societies have the capability of dealing with their environmental crises. Experiences in some countries demonstrate that modern institutions can incorporate environmental interests into their daily routines. Elsewhere, economic and political interests dominate development trajectories and environmental deterioration continues, challenging the premises of ecological modernisation. This volume brings together research on ecological modernisation practices around the world. Studies on Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia examine the applicability of this approach to advanced industrial countries, transitional economies and developing countries respectively. Authors critically examine the premises of ecological modernisation theory, assess its value for understanding past and present environmental transformations, and outline paths for designing future sustainable development. Taken together, the studies in collected this volume offer significant refinements, extensions and critiques of ecological modernisation theory and suggest important directions for future research on social and policy dimensions of environmental change.

The Environmental Communication Yearbook

The Environmental Communication Yearbook
Author: Stephen P. Depoe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 113524992X

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Green Politics

Green Politics
Author: J. Radcliffe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2000-03-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0333981693

At the heart of the green debate are a set of basic contradictions concerning beliefs and actions. This book reveals the problems associated with these contradictions, including adherence to decentralized political forms while accepting authoritarian intervention on behalf of the environment; a belief that this is the politics of the new age but in practice split between left and right; a rejection of the rationalist scientific project and a reliance on the lessons of the science of ecology.

The Green Studies Reader

The Green Studies Reader
Author: Laurence Coupe
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415204064

Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts.

The Making of Green Knowledge

The Making of Green Knowledge
Author: Andrew Jamison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2001-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521796873

A comprehensive introduction to the politics of the environment and the development of environmental knowledge.

Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives

Gender and Environmental Education: Feminist and Other(ed) Perspectives
Author: Annette Gough
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2024-06-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1040032230

This timely book provides a starting point for critical analysis and discourse about the status of gendered perspectives in environmental education research. Through bringing together selected writings of Annette Gough, it documents the evolving discussions of gender in environmental education research since the mid-1990s, from its origins in putting women on the agenda through to women’s relationships with nature and ecofeminism, as well as writings that engage with queer theory, intersectionality, assemblages, new materialisms, posthumanism and the more-than-human. The book is both a collection of Annette Gough, and her collaborators, writings around these themes and her reflections on the transitions that have occurred in the field of environmental education related to gender since the late 1980s, as well as her deliberations on future directions. An important new addition to the World Library of Educationalists, this book foregrounds women, their environmental perspectives, and feminist and other gendered research, which have been marginalised for too long in environmental education.

Post-Ecologist Politics

Post-Ecologist Politics
Author: Ingolfur Blühdorn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134652364

Since the late 1980s, ecological thought and the European eco-movement have gone through a phase of fundamental transformation which has been widely acknowledged but not yet theorised in any satisfactory way. This important text questions why radical ecological criticism has had so little impact on contemporary society, despite the urgency of the issues it highlights. The book offers a challenging theoretical critique of ecological thought itself.

Unity Of Nature, The: Wholeness And Disintegration In Ecology And Science

Unity Of Nature, The: Wholeness And Disintegration In Ecology And Science
Author: Alan Marshall
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2002-10-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1783261161

The idea behind The Unity of Nature is a strong theoretical theme in a number of scientific and environmental fields from ecosystems ecology, through quantum physics to environmental philosophy and ecopolitics giving rise to an inspiring, optimistic, socially-responsive and environment-friendly worldview. The fields of science and environmentalism have inherited this theme of natural unity through an intellectual lineage that encompasses many non-scientific and non-environmental fields such as sociology, theology and political philosophy. Many of these fields have used natural unity in a way which is in stark opposition to the metaphysical and political desires of those who promulgate the unity of nature for progressive social change.This book discusses how this has transpired and examines the social and intellectual processes that have been at work. These include the social construction of the Organicism versus Mechanicism debate in ecology, the intellectual links between neo-classical economic principles and the ‘New Sciences’, the techno-scientific background of Gaia theory, and the social conservatism of ecological functionalism.