Description
Book SynopsisA bold rethinking of urban political ecology
Trade Review"Everyday Environmentalism makes a compelling argument about how new environmental understandings can emerge from a critique of everyday life. Moving seamlessly between theory and practice in mutually illuminating ways, this book sheds exciting new light on the conditions of possibility for a radical socionatural politics." —Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley
"Everyday Environmentalism provides access to a host of historically complex ideas central to the evolution of urban political ecology and beyond. Alex Loftus’s depth of knowledge within social theory, urban studies, and socionature studies is robust." —Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Emerging Moments in an Urban Political Ecology
1. The Urbanization of Nature: Neil Smith and Posthumanist Controversies
2. Sensuous Socio-Natures: The Concept of Nature in Marx
3. Cyborg Consciousness: Questioning the Dialectics of Nature in Lukács
4. When Theory Becomes a Material Force: Gramsci’s Conjunctural Natures
5. Cultural Praxis as the Production of Nature: Lefebvrean Natures
Conclusion: The Nature of Everyday Life
Notes
Index
