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 environmental justice advocates. It maps out the new environmental politics of hybridity moving from hybrid neo-liberals to end times ecologists, from post environmentalists to cyborg eco-socialists. White, Rudy and Gareau insist on the necessity of a critical but optimistic hybrid politics, arguing that a more just, egalitarian, democratic and sustainable anthropocene is within our grasp. This will only be brought into being, however, by reclaiming, celebrating and channeling the reconstructive potential of entangled hybrid humans as inventive hominids, creative gardeners, critical publics and political agents. Written in an accessible style, Environments, Natures and Social Theory is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences.
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Environments, Natures and Social Theory
Towards a Critical Hybridity
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Towards a Critical Hybridity
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- List of Figures and Tables
- Publisher’s Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: The Socio-Ecological Imagination
- 1 Unnatural Social Theory? The Problem of Nature in Classic Social Theory
- 2 Hybrid Histories: Historical Socio-Ecologies in the Age of “the Anthropocene”
- 3 Limits/No Limits? Neo-Malthusians, Prometheans and Beyond
- 4 Social Environmentalism and Political Ecology: The Missing Third, Fourth and Fifth Dimensions of the Environmental Debate
- 5 Structures and Institutions: The Treadmill of Production, the Metabolic Rift and the Sociology of Ecological Modernization
- 6 Hybridities and Agencies: Latour, Haraway, Beck and the Vital Materialists
- 7 Culture, Spaces, Power: From Environmental Justice to Urban Political Ecologies
- 8 Global Environmental Governance and Neoliberalization
- 9 Anthropocene Politics I: Market Natures™
- 10 Anthropocene Politics II: Democratic Natures, Public Ecologies
- Conclusion: Hybrid Arguments, Hybrid Flourishing, Hybrid Futures
- Bibliography
- Index
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