{"product_id":"discourses-of-the-environment-9780631211235","title":"Discourses of the Environment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book to offer critical understandings of discourses of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives.   Addresses issues of current public debate.   Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"provides a stimulating read and a path through post-structuralist terrain.\" \u003ci\u003eYvonne Rydin, London School of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e represents an important contribution to addressing the links between poststructuralism and the environment. The divergent analyses are engaging and should provide material for debate and inquiry. Environmental theorists and practitioners will find this book of benefit, although the novelty of this intellectual effort should diminish as scholars recognise the important links between Foucault and nature.\" \u003ci\u003eLocal Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'In \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e Eric Darier brings together nine scholars from a variety of disciplines who are all working on environmental issues from the broad perspective provided by the work of the late Michel Foucault. The result is an important and challenging contribution to the understanding of the environment as a central problem of modern societies and as an object of study across the natural and human sciences.' -- \u003cb\u003eJames Tully,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Victoria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Darier's \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e makes a major contributors to a debate that really deserves to be broader than it has been. Bringing the breakthrough political theory of Michel Foucault to the environmental movement, the book is so compelling that it makes one wonder why such an approach has been so rare.' --\u003cb\u003eBill Chaloupka,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Montana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Foucault and The Environment: An Introduction: Eric Darier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Histories:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.\"The Entry Of Life Into History\": Foucault And Ecological Governmentality: Paul Rutherford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Medicine, Health And The Environment: The Construction Of Environmental \"Awareness\": Isabelle Lanthier And Lawrence Olivier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Sex At The Limits: Population, Environmentalism, And Late Capitalism: Catriona Sandilands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Ecological Modernisation And Environmental Risk: Foucault And Recent Social Theory: Paul Rutherford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Environmentalities:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Environmentality As Green Governmentality Geo-Power, Eco-Knowledge And Enviro-Discipline As Tactics Of Normalisation: Timothy W. Luke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art And Foucauldian Heterotopias: Thomas Heyd.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Practice Of The Green Subjects: Nature Writing As Self-Technology: Sylvia Bowerbank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Resistances:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Nature As Dangerous Space: Foucault's Challenge To Marxism, Liberal Humanism And The General Call For 'Grounded Responsibility': Peter Quigley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Foucault's Unnatural Ecology: Neil Levy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Foucault Against Environmental Ethics: Toward A Green Aesthetic Of Existence?: Eric Darier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403421819223,"sku":"9780631211235","price":46.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631211235.jpg?v=1730483422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discourses-of-the-environment-9780631211235","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}