Living with Nature

Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829509-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

Despite the optimism of the `Earth Summit' held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the politics of environmental sustainable development has reached an impasse. Why do issues of environmental protection continue to take a back seat to economic competition, particularly in the international realm? Once the environmental problem was widely recognised, it was held that consensus could be reached. In practice, however, the development of sustainability had often continued to merely extend earlier technocratic practices and solutions, which fail to take into consideration the specific cultural questions.

Living With Nature seeks to place the question of the dynamics of environmental crisis within a socio-cultural dimension of the existing economic and political institutions. The book argues for a need to find a new balance between a theoretical analysis of the debate and an appreciation of local circumstances, norms and knowledge. Politically, it implies an implicit understanding of the way in which we live together with nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Frank

Hajer, Maarten A.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION FO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

- 1: Wolfgang Sachs: Sustainable Development and the Crisis of Nature: On the Political Anatomy of an Oxymoron

- 2: Yrjo Haila: The North as/and the Other: Ecology, Domination, Solidarity

- 3: Carolyn Egri: Nature in Spiritual Traditions: Social and Cultural Implications for Environmental Change

- PART II. DISCOURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND EXPERTISE

- 4: Josef Keulartz.: Engineering the Environment: The Politics of Nature Development

- 5: Timothy Luke: Eco-managerialism: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge Formation

- 6: Peter Taylor: Mapping Complex Socio-Natural Relationships: Cases from Mexico and Africa

- 7: Michael Thompson: Security and Solidarity: Toward an Anti-Reductionist Framework for the Analysis of Environmental Policy

- PART III. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE

- 8: David Harvey: The Environment of Justice

- 9: Douglas Torgerson: Images of Place in Green Politics: The Cultural Mirror of Indigenous Traditions

- 10: Carolyn Merchant: Partnership Ethics and Cultural Discourse: Women and the Earth Summit

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Fischer is a Professor of Political Science at Rugers and member of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

Maarten Hajer is a Professor of Political Science University of Amsterdam.