Eric Darier 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 "Premises about Environmental Studies in Context: Knowledge, Language, History and the Self" in Michael D. Metha & Eric Ouellet (Eds.) "Environmental Sociology: Theory and Practice" (Toronto: Captus Press, 1995) and "Time to be Lazy: Work, the Environment and Modern Subjectivities" in "Time and Society" 7(2) September 1998.