Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book for people wanting to understand the interactions between social media and other platforms, truth, and the environment. While the book does not offer easy answers, it will be useful to scholars and practitioners in multiple fields who are working on their diagnosis of the problem." * Journal of Development Studies *
"The significance of this book goes far beyond the environmental dimension, as the main argument and the detailed analysis to which it gives rise are of the utmost importance for understanding the social and political tensions that animate the world today." * New Global Studies *
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Truth is a prime example of topical, generative, cutting-edge contemporary political ecology. . . .Thanks to Büscher’s versatility and clear language, the book is commendable to students of political ecology, sociology, online cultures, social theory scholars, conservation practitioners, and other interested non-academics." * Human Ecology *
"Truth About Nature reads like a remedy thanks to its political-ecological outlook, with its feet on the empirical ground, its heart in the practical world, and its head in the conceptual sky; it stands contradictions and does what others only write about- dialectics."
* Springer Nature *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Truth about Nature?
Part One. (Meta)theoretical Bearings
1. Truth Tensions
Part Two. The Political Economy of Platforms, Post-truth, and Power
2. Sharing Truths and Natures
3. Between Platforms, Post-truth, and Power
Part Three. Environmentalism 2.0
4. Conservation 2.0: The Politics of Cocreation
5. Elephant 2.0: The Politics of Platforms
6. Kruger 2.0: The Politics of Distinction
7. Rhino 2.0: The Politics of Hysteria
Conclusion: Speaking Truth to Power
Notes
Bibliography
Index
