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Author(s): Damian White, Alan Rudy, Brian Gareau
ISBN(s): 9780230241046, 0230241042
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Year: 2015
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ISBN 10: 0230241042 
ISBN 13: 9780230241046
Author: Damian White, Alan Rudy, Brian Gareau

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.

Environments Natures and Social Theory Towards a Critical Hybridity 1st Table of contents:

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 Embe
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 Populate
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
The Global Environmentalism of Limits and the Problem of Exponential Growth in a Finite System
Epistemological Skepticism of Global Modeling
The Free Market Promethean Cornucopian Response
The Bet
A Zero-Sum Debate or Shifting Positions in the Light of Changing Circumstances?
Revisions and Reversals in the Environmentalism of Limits
Revisions and Reversals from the Promethean/Cornucopian Worldview
“Big State” Promethean Politics – Defending the Future or Protecting the Past?
Conclusion
4 Social Environmentalism and Political Ecology: The Missing Third, Fourth and Fifth Dimensions of t
Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology
Barry Commoner: Socialist Ecology
Feminist Political Ecology and Demographic Transition Theory
Southern Critiques of the “Northern” Environmental Debate
The Political Ecology of Land and Resources
Criticism of Social Environmentalism and Political Ecologists
Planetary Boundaries/Planetary Opportunities
Conclusion
5 Structures and Institutions: The Treadmill of Production, the Metabolic Rift and the Sociology of
Structural Political Economy Perspectives
The Treadmill of Production
The Metabolic Rift in Eco-Marxism
The Sociology of Ecological Modernization
Merits of the Metabolic Rift and the Treadmill of Production
Limits of the Metabolic Rift and the Treadmill of Production
Malthusianism and Dualism
The Challenge of Non-Equilibrium Ecology and Southern Political Ecology to Metabolic Rift and Treadm
The Limits of Zero-Sum Binary Thinking and Left Functionalism: The Disproportionality and Divergence
The Postpolitics of (Socialist) Eco-Catastrophism
Evaluating the Sociology of Ecological Modernization
Limits of the Sociology of Ecological Modernization
Functionalism and Theoretical Limitations in the Sociology of Ecological Modernization
Empirical and Methodological Deficiencies in the Sociology of Ecological Modernization: Ecologically
Ecological Modernization as Postpolitical Eco-Managerialism? The Normative Deficit in Ecological Mod
The Problem with “Greenwash,” The Neo-Liberalization of Environmental Governance and the Politic
Conclusion
6 Hybridities and Agencies: Latour, Haraway, Beck and the Vital Materialists
Hybridity
Bruno Latour: We Have Never Been Modern
Latour and Actor-Network Theory
Doing Actor-Network Theory
Donna Haraway: We Have Never Been Human
Ulrich Beck: The Sociology of Risk
Democracy, Science and Environmental Politics in a Postnaturalistic Age
Evaluating the Hybrid Thinking of Latour, Haraway and Beck
Critical Thoughts on Beck – Risk Society or a Society of Hypochondriacs?
Critical Thoughts on Latour: Enlightenment, Agency and the Missing Middle
Critical Perspectives on Donna Haraway: Towards a Critical Hybridity?
Exuberant Ontologies, Vital Materialisms and Decentered Humans
Conclusion
7 Culture, Spaces, Power: From Environmental Justice to Urban Political Ecologies
Creative Historical Ecologies: Rereading the Historical Relations between Environmental History, Lab
Environmental Justice and the Sociology of Environmental Inequalities
Hybrid, Cyborg and Relational Eco-Marxisms and Urban Political Ecologies
Critical Evaluations
Conclusion
8 Global Environmental Governance and Neoliberalization
Global Environmental Governance: A History of Transition and Change
The Early Years: Environmental Pollution and Resource Protection
The Transitional Years: Sustainable Development and Sustaining Growth
The Contested Years: Neoliberalism and the Environment
Neoliberalization of Global Environmental Governance
From Environmental Justice to Expertise: A Look at the Development of the Basel Convention
From Social Welfare to Individual Profits: A Look at the Neoliberalization of the Montreal Protocol
The Challenge of Global Climate Change
Conclusion
9 Anthropocene Politics I: Market Natures™
Neoliberal Hybrid Ecologies – Free People Living in Fortress Ecologies
End Times Ecology
Critical Evaluations 1
Bright Greens: Natural Capitalism, Cradle to Cradle and Beyond
Post-Environmentalism
Critical Evaluations II
Conclusion
10 Anthropocene Politics II: Democratic Natures, Public Ecologies
Cosmopolitics: Democratic Experiments to Make Things Public
Redirective Practices, Plenitude and Experiments in Sustainable Living
Critical Evaluations I
A Hybrid and Post Free Market Economy?
Municipalist and NeoStatist Political Strategies for Developing a Hybrid Politics
Critical Evaluations II

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