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The politics of the Earth : environmental discourses / John S. Dryzek.

By: Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, cop. 2013Edition: 3. edDescription: 268 sISBN:
  • 9780199696000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7 23
  • 333.7 23/swe
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  • Qadn
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The Politics of the Earth provides an accessible and engaging introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. Leading scholar John S. Dryzek analyses the various approaches which have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades and which are likely to be influential in the future, including survivalism, environmental problem solving, sustainability, and green radicalism.This new edition includes more on global environmental politics, as well as updated and expanded examples including more material on China. Dryzek looks at the most modern discourses, including discussions surrounding climate change, and has reworked the material on justice and green radicalism to include more on climate justice and new developments such as transition towns and radical summits. An engaging writing style and helpful boxed material make this complex subject accessible to students.

Previous ed.: 1997

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Boxes and Figures(p. xvii)
  • Part I Introduction(p. 1)
  • 1 Making Sense of Earth's Politics: A Discourse Approach(p. 3)
  • The changing terms of environmental politics(p. 3)
  • A discourse approach(p. 9)
  • Classifying the main environmental discourses(p. 14)
  • Questions to ask about discourses(p. 17)
  • The differences that discourses make(p. 19)
  • The uses of discourse analysis(p. 21)
  • Part II Global Limits and their Denial(p. 25)
  • 2 Looming Tragedy: Limits, Boundaries, Survival(p. 27)
  • The origins of survivalism(p. 27)
  • To the limits-and beyond(p. 30)
  • From limits to planetary boundaries(p. 34)
  • The political philosophy of survival(p. 37)
  • Discourse analysis of limits and survival(p. 40)
  • Limits and survival in practice(p. 43)
  • Limits and survival: an assessment(p. 48)
  • 3 Growth Unlimited: The Promethean Response(p. 52)
  • The Promethean background(p. 52)
  • Promethean argument to the foreground(p. 53)
  • Promethean environmentalism(p. 58)
  • Analysis of Promethean discourse(p. 59)
  • The impact of Promethean discourse(p. 64)
  • Promethean discourse: an assessment(p. 69)
  • Part III Solving Environmental Problems(p. 73)
  • 4 Leave it to the Experts: Administrative Rationalism(p. 75)
  • The repertoire of administrative rationalism(p. 76)
  • Discourse analysis of administrative rationalism(p. 88)
  • The justification of administrative rationalism(p. 90)
  • Administrative rationalism in crisis(p. 92)
  • From government to governance?(p. 96)
  • 5 Leave it to the People: Democratic Pragmatism(p. 99)
  • Democratic pragmatism in action(p. 100)
  • Democratic pragmatism as government and governance(p. 108)
  • The rationality of democratic pragmatism(p. 111)
  • Discourse analysis of democratic pragmatism(p. 114)
  • The limits of democratic pragmatism(p. 117)
  • 6 Leave it to the Market: Economic Rationalism(p. 122)
  • Privatizing everything if you can(p. 124)
  • If you can't privatize it, market it anyway(p. 129)
  • Analysis of economic rationalism discourse(p. 134)
  • An assessment of economic rationalism(p. 138)
  • Part IV The Quest for Sustainability(p. 145)
  • 7 Greener Growth: Sustainable Development(p. 147)
  • What is sustainable development?(p. 147)
  • The career of the concept(p. 150)
  • Discourse analysis of sustainable development(p. 155)
  • Whither sustainable development?(p. 160)
  • 8 Industrial Society and Beyond: Ecological Modernization(p. 165)
  • Cleanest and greenest(p. 165)
  • The idea of ecological modernization(p. 170)
  • Discourse analysis of ecological modernization(p. 173)
  • Radicalizing ecological modernization?(p. 176)
  • Ecological modernization in the balance(p. 179)
  • Part V Green Radicalism(p. 185)
  • 9 Changing People: Green Consciousness(p. 187)
  • The varieties of green consciousness(p. 187)
  • The romantic disposition and its critics(p. 195)
  • Discourse analysis of green consciousness(p. 197)
  • The impact of green consciousness change(p. 201)
  • Can green consciousness save the Earth?(p. 204)
  • 10 New Society: Green Politics(p. 207)
  • The varieties of green politics(p. 207)
  • Discourse analysis of green politics(p. 218)
  • Green politics in practice(p. 221)
  • Being green in global capitalist times(p. 227)
  • Part VI Conclusion(p. 231)
  • 11 Ecological Democracy(p. 233)
  • References(p. 241)
  • Index(p. 263)