Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity

In: Themes in Social Theory Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- List of Figures and Tables -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Socio-Ecological Imagination -- There is No Unitary "Anthropos" and Environmental Problems are Socially Mediated -- Nature-Cultures -- Realism, Constructionism and Beyond -- Material, Cultural and Political Ecologies -- Power and Socio-Ecological Entanglements -- Conclusion -- 1 Unnatural Social Theory? The Problem of Nature in Classic Social Theory -- Enlightenment and Social Theory -- Naturalistic Reductionism in Social Theory: Malthus, Spencer and Social Darwinism -- Social Reductionism: Durkheim -- Looking Beyond Mainstream Traditions in Social Theory -- Marx and Engels on Ecology and Environmental Questions -- Social Anarchism, Mutualism and Regionalism -- A.N. Whitehead, Gabriel Tarde and the Sociology of Associations -- Human Ecology -- Catton and Dunlap - Contesting Human Exemptionalism -- Ted Benton - Rejecting Human Exceptionalism but Defending the Specificity of the Ecologically Embedded Social Agent -- Haraway: A Relational View of Nature-Cultures -- Negotiating Hybrid Worlds -- Conclusion -- 2 Hybrid Histories: Historical Socio-Ecologies in the Age of "the Anthropocene" -- Noble/Ignoble Savages and Postcolonial Histories -- Environmental Histories of Small-Scale, Agricultural and Feudal Societies -- Collapse, Overshoot or Social and Ecological Resilience? -- Understanding the Landscape of the Pre-Columbian Americas: A Pristine World or a Worked and Populated Hybrid Landscape? -- Mobile Nonhuman Histories: Crosby's Ecological Imperialism -- The Rise of "the Anthropocene"? -- Anthropocene, Capitalocene or the Global Production of Multiple Socionatures? -- Conclusion -- 3 Limits/No Limits? Neo-Malthusians, Prometheans and Beyond -- The Rise of the Neo-Malthusians.