Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity

In: Themes in Social Theory Ser.

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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.

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Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity

In: Themes in Social Theory

White, Damian; Rudy, Alan P.; Gareau, Brian J.

White, Damian; Rudy, Alan P.; Gareau, Brian J.

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From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and critical design studies to provide a definitive mapping of the state of environmental social theory in the age of the anthropocene. Environments, Natures and Social Theory provokes dialogue and confrontation between critical political economists, actor network theorists, neo-Malthusians and environmental justice advocates. It maps out the new environmental politics of hybridity moving from hybrid neo-liberals to end times ecologists, from post environmentalists to cyborg eco-socialists. White, Rudy and Gareau insist on the necessity of a critical but optimistic hybrid politics, arguing that a more just, egalitarian, democratic and sustainable anthropocene is within our grasp. This will only be brought into being, however, by reclaiming, celebrating and channeling the reconstructive potential of entangled hybrid humans as inventive hominids, creative gardeners, critical publics and political agents. Written in an accessible style, Environments, Natures and Social Theory is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences

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