Discourses of the Environment

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.

Spis treści:
Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1. Foucault and The Environment: An Introduction: Eric Darier.
Part I Histories:.
2."The Entry Of Life Into History": Foucault And Ecological Governmentality: Paul Rutherford.
3. Medicine, Health And The Environment: The Construction Of Environmental "Awareness": Isabelle Lanthier And Lawrence Olivier.
4. Sex At The Limits: Population, Environmentalism, And Late Capitalism: Catriona Sandilands.
5. Ecological Modernisation And Environmental Risk: Foucault And Recent Social Theory: Paul Rutherford.
Part II Environmentalities:.
6. Environmentality As Green Governmentality Geo–Power, Eco–Knowledge And Enviro–Discipline As Tactics Of Normalisation: Timothy W. Luke.
7. Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art And Foucauldian Heterotopias: Thomas H eyd.
8. The Practice Of The Green Subjects: Nature Writing As Self–Technology: Sylvia Bowerbank.
Part III Resistances:.
9. Nature As Dangerous Space: Foucault′s Challenge To Marxism, Liberal Humanism And The General Call For ′Grounded Responsibility′: Peter Quigley.
10. Foucault′s Unnatural Ecology: Neil Levy.
11. Foucault Against Environmental Ethics: Toward A Green Aesthetic Of Existence?: Eric Darier.
Bibliography.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
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.

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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.