Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory

ISBN-13: 9780199685271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 672 str.

Teena Gabrielson; Cheryl Hall; John M. Meyer

Opis

Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, defines, illustrates, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT).

Featuring contributions from distinguished political scientists working in this field, this volume addresses canonical theorists and contemporary environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial volume focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry, engaging both traditions of political thought and the academy. In the second section, the handbook explores conceptualizations of nature and the environment, as well as the nature of political subjects, communities, and boundaries within our environments. A third section addresses the values that motivate environmental theorists -- including justice, responsibility, rights, limits, and flourishing -- and the potential conflicts that can emerge within, between, and against these ideals. The final section examines the primary structures that constrain or enable the achievement of environmental ends, as well as theorizations of environmental movements, citizenship, and the potential for on-going environmental action and change.

Recenzje

For anyone seriously concerned with environmental issues and understanding the associated politics, this is a book they should have on their shelves. It can be consulted on a wide range of topics, and represents a true state-of-theart guide. It is difficult to select specific contributions to highlight, but having been engaged with research that addressed notions of environmental justice, I was drawn to the four chapters that explicitly tackled this topic. These provide an historical overview of the concept's evolution, and they also demonstrate vital insights to the challenges being posed by the need to seek 'climate justice', or the efforts to minimise harm associated with climate change and the 'structural injustice' of its harmful impacts, symbolising how the least developed countries may suffer the worst impacts of climate change despite contributing little to the problem.The Handbook is thoroughly worthy of the label 'treasure trove'.

O autorze

Teena Gabrielson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming. Her work on environmental citizenship, justice, and toxics discourse has been published in distinguished scholarly journals such as Environmental Politics, Theory & Event, and Citizenship Studies. Cheryl Hall is Associate Professor of political theory in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason and other work exploring the roles that emotions, values, imagination, deliberation, stories, and structures play in encouraging or discouraging more just and sustainable ways of life. John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics, in Environmental Studies, and in the Environment and Community program at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He is the author of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015), as well as other books and articles in environmental political theory. David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, and the Director of the Sydney Environment Institute, at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Defining Environmental Justice, co-author of Sustainable Materialism and Climate Challenged Society, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, all with Oxford University Press.