In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory. With an eye to critically exposing unexamined essentialist and foundational commitments, the author shows how deep ecology remains profoundly entangled with the very traditions of thought it has sought to overcome. The author critically assesses deep ecology's relations with the Enlightenment, modernity, systems theory, anthropocentrism, the figure of wilderness and the trope of the primitive, and the imagined promise of...
In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social a...
Van Wyck (communication, Concordia U., Montreal, Quebec) uses the example of one specific government nuclear waste burial program the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico to search for a modern new way of thinking about ecological threats. Coverage includes an overview of several basic points what waste is, what nuclear wastes
Van Wyck (communication, Concordia U., Montreal, Quebec) uses the example of one specific government nuclear waste burial program the Waste Isolation ...
