Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780415115308 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 276 str.

Kay Milton;Milton Kay

Opis

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of culture, once the property of anthropologists, has gained wide currency among social scientists. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary global arena. Taking an anthropological approach, the book examines the relationship between human culture and human ecology, and considers how a cultural approach to the study of environmental issues differs from other established approaches in social science. This book demonstrates the distinctive contribution of social and cultural anthropology to the environmental debate.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Anthropology, Culture and Environmentalism; Chapter 2 Culture and Ecology; Chapter 3 Environmentalism in Social Science; Chapter 4 Environmentalism and Cultural Diversity; Chapter 5 Globalization, Culture and Discourse; Chapter 6 The Culture of Global Environmentalist Discourse; Chapter 7 Anthropology, Social Science and Environmentalism;

O autorze

Kay Milton is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Queen’s University, Belfast.