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Discussion opens with a depiction of the 23 Oct 1995 railroad tank car explosion in Bogalusa, LA, as a way to outline the conflict between radical environmentalists (counterculturalists) & progressives (liberal capitalists & socialists). The modernist critique that radical environmentalism (ie, deep ecology) has affinities with early-20th-century nature-worshipping, reactionary movements is then examined. A progressive thread is discerned in deep ecology & ecofeminism despite their unyielding critique of modernity's drive to dominate nature. Attention turns to Ken Wilber's cosmological narrative, which seeks to reconcile radical environmentalism & modern progressivism. Some consideration is given to the idea of spirituality as a key facet to deep ecology. It is concluded that reconciling progressivism & environmentalism is critical to a positive & transcendent postmodern consciousness. J. Zendejas

Addresses the implications of broad shifts in environmental politics for environmentalism & progressive politics. An updated summary of the themes & contentions in the author's Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics (1989) is offered before reflecting on the ideological & political relevance of the Cold War's end & the fall of the far Left. Attention turns to globalization & the retrogressive impacts of capitalism. The implications of globalization for the politics of wealthier nations are considered, addressing the increasingly closed nature of current global decision making & the politics of deregulation. A look at the development of 1990s environmental politics focuses on the potential for new perspectives & postregulatory environmental policy tools, noting that many pro-sustainability public policies are nonregulatory & can be structured in a manner that benefits the socioeconomic condition of disadvantaged North American groups. J. Zendejas

In discussions of environmental protection, environmentalists often focus on wild areas & ignore cities. While complaining about global environmental issues like global warming, antiglobalization activists do not offer concrete alternative recommendations for respecting local sovereignty. It is argued that attending to the environmental problems of cities should be the first step in combating global environmental problems. This is because local alliances have to be formed to tackle the common problems. Through those, environmental awareness can be raised & transcend localities. In addition, the ecological footprint of a locality may extend much further than its boundaries, especially in the North. The environmental problems of cities with the largest ecological footprints should be the first addressed. Ways in which to promote urban ecological citizenship & participation with an environmental agenda focused on urban areas are discussed. Urban restoration should be viewed as re-engagement rather than resistance. M. Pflum

In discussions of environmental protection, environmentalists often focus on wild areas & ignore cities. While complaining about global environmental issues like global warming, antiglobalization activists do not offer concrete alternative recommendations for respecting local sovereignty. It is argued that attending to the environmental problems of cities should be the first step in combating global environmental problems. This is because local alliances have to be formed to tackle the common problems. Through those, environmental awareness can be raised & transcend localities. In addition, the ecological footprint of a locality may extend much further than its boundaries, especially in the North. The environmental problems of cities with the largest ecological footprints should be the first addressed. Ways in which to promote urban ecological citizenship & participation with an environmental agenda focused on urban areas are discussed. Urban restoration should be viewed as re-engagement rather than resistance. M. Pflum

After distinguishing among globalism, globality, & globalization, explored are some ideological dimensions of new tendencies toward combining globalism & environmentalism into an "ecoglobalism" dedicated toward managing the environment from the local through the global levels. It is demonstrated how the "Earth's ecologies are being transformed into sites for globalist intervention" via a "naturalist capitalism." Corporations, it is argued, have become "militant proponents for the ideologies of globalism," evolving new forms of "ecomanagerialism" to apply on a world scale. As Sklair (2002) maintains, the transnationalist capitalist class has recognized that ecological sustainability is its key to maintaining power in the new world order & is investing in new "economies of nature" in its plans for development; spatial implications of such development & the transnational proliferation of certain environments over others are considered. K. Hyatt Stewart

Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, ob Rassismus mit einem Anti-Diskriminierungsgesetz zu bekämpfen ist. Dabei wird zunächst das UNO-Übereinkommen über die Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung kurz dargestellt. Sodann wird deutlich gemacht, daß die Anerkennung des multiethnischen Charakters der Gesellschaft und die staatsbürgerliche und rechtliche Gleichstellung der Einwanderer wesentliche Voraussetzung einer erfolgreichen Antidiskriminierungsgesetzgebung sind. Ein Antidiskriminierungsgesetz kann allerdings nicht dem Zustand abhelfen, daß Staatsangehörige eines Drittstaates in Deutschland rechtlich schlechter gestellt sind als Deutsche; im weiteren können Antidiskriminierungsgesetze lediglich die Bedingungen der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Auseinandersetzung mit rassistischen Strömungen verbessern, nicht aber Rassismus abschaffen. In rechtlicher Hinsicht wird dafür plädiert, daß die Betroffen die Möglichkeiten haben sollten, ihr Recht, nicht diskriminiert zu werden, mit Leistungs-, Abwehr- und Ausgleichsansprüchen gegenüber Privatpersonen gerichtlich durchzusetzen. Im weiteren werden wirksame Sanktionen in privatrechtlicher Hinsicht wie auch im Presserecht gefordert. Abschließend werden Überlegungen zu den Verfahrensvorschriften vorgelegt (Beweisregelung, Verbandsklage). (ICD)

Varieties of environmentalist thought & their affinities with the core moral & epistemological tradition of modernity are examined. Thinking about environmental crises is dependent on the perceived relationship between language & the world. Prior to the seventeenth century, language, culture, & the natural order were embedded in the word & natural meaning stemmed from interpreting signs in nature & the environment. Modernity brought differentiation of cultural spheres & the separation of language from the world. Language became a vehicle for self-certain apodictic knowledge that legitimated human domination of nature. Two reactions of the ecology movement to this modernity discourse are neomodernism, which rejects assumptions about the correspondence between language & nature, & deep green romanticism. Problems with both of these are highlighted, & a third alternative is proposed in which social practices & nature are viewed as intersecting & ongoing forms of life. 107 References. D. Generoli

Noting that Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's Empire (2000) ignores environmental politics, its challenge to left politics is extended to green politics. Discussion opens with a look at the modernism structuring green thought. In looking at Hardt & Negri's take on modernism, it is argued that reorienting the Left requires more than just pointing out modernism's bankruptcy. In this light, green agency, the form of knowledge integral to green agency, & place or locality, three components of green thought, are examined in relation to Hardt & Negri's ideas. While Empire makes progress toward reorienting the Left by opening space for mobility & diffusion, green politics offers opportunities for further advance. However, greens rarely examine & debate their ideological commitments in the manner that Empire engages the Left. Reading greens & Empire through & against each other sheds light on a green history the greens are unaware of & the antecedents to the seemingly new politics espoused in Hardt & Negri's text. J. Zendejas