Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism

The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-829485-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 469 g

In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of `critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the century, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed at how to acknowledge and recognize, rather than deny, the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice, the myriad ways people define and experience the `environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement, with its base in diversity, its networked structure, and its communicative practices and demands, exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlosberg, David

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutzorganisationen, Naturschützer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part 1. Pluralism and Difference: The Environmental Challenge

- 1: Introduction: The Environmental Challenge to Pluralism

- 2: Approaches to Difference in the US Environmental Movement: Classification Schemes, Hegemonic Definitions, and Singular Motivations

- Part 2. Critical Pluralism in Theory

- 3: Pluralism and Difference: A Genealogy of Multiplicity

- 4: Components of a Critical Pluralism: Ethics and Processes

- Part 3. Environmental Justice: Critical Pluralism in Practice

- 5: The Politics of Networking in the Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement

- 6: Communicative Practices and Communicative Demands in the Environmental Justice Movement

- Part 4. Conclusion

- 7: Environmental Justice and the Prospects for a Critical Pluralism

Über Autor(innen)

David Schlosberg is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University