{"product_id":"discourses-of-the-environment-isbn-9780631211235","title":"Discourses of the Environment","description":"This book is the first to provide students with critical understandings of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives inspired from Michel Foucault.  Contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Foucault and The Environment: An Introduction: Eric Darier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Histories:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.\"The Entry Of Life Into History\": Foucault And Ecological Governmentality: Paul Rutherford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Medicine, Health And The Environment: The Construction Of Environmental \"Awareness\": Isabelle Lanthier And Lawrence Olivier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Sex At The Limits: Population, Environmentalism, And Late Capitalism: Catriona Sandilands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Ecological Modernisation And Environmental Risk: Foucault And Recent Social Theory: Paul Rutherford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Environmentalities:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Environmentality As Green Governmentality Geo-Power, Eco-Knowledge And Enviro-Discipline As Tactics Of Normalisation: Timothy W. Luke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art And Foucauldian Heterotopias: Thomas Heyd.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Practice Of The Green Subjects: Nature Writing As Self-Technology: Sylvia Bowerbank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Resistances:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Nature As Dangerous Space: Foucault's Challenge To Marxism, Liberal Humanism And The General Call For 'Grounded Responsibility': Peter Quigley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Foucault's Unnatural Ecology: Neil Levy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Foucault Against Environmental Ethics: Toward A Green Aesthetic Of Existence?: Eric Darier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"provides a stimulating read and a path through post-structuralist terrain.\" \u003ci\u003eYvonne Rydin, London School of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e represents an important contribution to addressing the links between poststructuralism and the environment. The divergent analyses are engaging and should provide material for debate and inquiry. Environmental theorists and practitioners will find this book of benefit, although the novelty of this intellectual effort should diminish as scholars recognise the important links between Foucault and nature.\" \u003ci\u003eLocal Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'In \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e Eric Darier brings together nine scholars from a variety of disciplines who are all working on environmental issues from the broad perspective provided by the work of the late Michel Foucault. The result is an important and challenging contribution to the understanding of the environment as a central problem of modern societies and as an object of study across the natural and human sciences.' -- \u003cb\u003eJames Tully,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Victoria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Darier's \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e makes a major contributors to a debate that really deserves to be broader than it has been. Bringing the breakthrough political theory of Michel Foucault to the environmental movement, the book is so compelling that it makes one wonder why such an approach has been so rare.' --\u003cb\u003eBill Chaloupka,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Montana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eEric Darier\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePremises about Environmental Studies in Context: Knowledge, Language, History and the Self\u003c\/i\u003e in Michael D. Metha \u0026amp; Eric Ouellet (Eds.) \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Sociology: Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (Toronto: Captus Press, 1995) and \u003ci\u003eTime to be Lazy: Work, the Environment and Modern Subjectivities\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eTime and Society\u003c\/i\u003e 7(2) September 1998.  \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989073543397,"sku":"NP9780631211235","price":51.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631211235.jpg?v=1761782685","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/discourses-of-the-environment-isbn-9780631211235","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}