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Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity
Damian White
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Description for Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity
Paperback. Issues around the environment provoke ethical, cultural, scientific and political debates. This unique inter-disciplinary introduction guides readers through these debates, drawing on recent and influential social theory and empirical cases to map out scholarship in the area. It is essential reading for anyone interested in social environmentalism. Series: Themes in Social Theory. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHBA; RNA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and critical design studies to provide a definitive mapping of the state of environmental social theory in the age of the anthropocene. Environments, Natures and Social Theory provokes dialogue and confrontation between critical political economists, actor network theorists, neo-Malthusians and ... Read more
From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and critical design studies to provide a definitive mapping of the state of environmental social theory in the age of the anthropocene. Environments, Natures and Social Theory provokes dialogue and confrontation between critical political economists, actor network theorists, neo-Malthusians and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Themes in Social Theory
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230241046
SKU
V9780230241046
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99-15
About Damian White
Damian White is Head of the Department of History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Alan Rudy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University, USA. Brian Gareau is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Boston College, USA.
Reviews for Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity
For those of us who want to better theorize and situate struggles, Environments, Natures, and Social Theory is a potentially welcome and timely intervention that can help us contextualize them both theoretically and practically ... White, Rudy and Gareau should be commended for their accomplishment. All of us who study and write about socionatural hybridity have an obligation to figure ... Read more