Critical environmental politics

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction – Carl Death
2.Biodiversity – Bram Büscher
3. Biopolitics – Kevin Grove
4. Citizenship – Emma Hinton
5. Climate change – Chukwumerije Okereke and Mark Charlesworth
6. Commodification – Matthew Paterson
7. Conservation – James Igoe
8. Consumption – Andrew Brooks and Raymond Bryant
9. Eco-centrism – Katie McShane
10. Feminism – Erika Cudworth
11. Governance – Susan Baker
12. Governmentality – Eva Lövbrand and Johannes Stripple
13. Hybridity – Alan Rudy and Damian White
14. Justice – Patrick Bond
15. Limits – Gabriela Kütting
16. Localism – Karen Litfin
17. Movements –Stephan Price, Clare Saunders and Cristiana Olcese
18. Posthumanism – Steve Hobden
19. Resource violence – Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso
20. Risk – Luigi Pellizzoni
21. Sacrifice – Paul Wapner
22. Science – Tim Forsyth
23. Security – Simon Dalby
24. States – Thom Kuehls
25. Summits – Carl Death
26. Sustainability – Mark Whitehead
27. Technology – Timothy W. Luke
28.Vulnerability – Chris Methmann and Angela Oels

The aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions, problems, and research agendas in the field.

The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism, and spanning disciplines including international relations, geography, sociology, history, philosophy, anthropology, and political science. The 28 chapters cover a range of global and local studies, illustrations and cases. These range from the Cochabamba conference in Bolivia to climate camps in the UK; UN summits in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to climate migrants from Pacific islands; forests in Indonesia to Dutch energy governance reform; indigenous communities in Namibia to oil extraction in the Niger Delta; survivalist militias in the USA to Maasai tribesmen in Kenya.

Rather than following a regional or issue-based (e.g. water, forests, pollution, etc) structure, the volume is organised in terms of key concepts in the field, including those which have been central to the social sciences for a long time (such as citizenship, commodification, consumption, feminism, justice, movements, science, security, the state, summits, and technology); those which have been at the heart of environmental politics for many years (including biodiversity, climate change, conservation, eco-centrism, limits, localism, resources, sacrifice, and sustainability); and many which have been introduced to these literatures and debates more recently (biopolitics, governance, governmentality, hybridity, posthumanism, risk, and vulnerability).

Features and benefits of the book:

Explains the most important concepts and theories in environmental politics.

Reviews the core ideas behind crucial debates in environmental politics.

Highlights the key thinkers – both classic and contemporary – for studying environmental politics.

Provides original perspectives on the critical potential of the concepts for future research agendas as well as for the practice of environmental politics.

Each chapter is written by leading international authors in their field.

This exciting new volume will be essential textbook reading for all students of environmental politics, as well as provocatively presenting the field in a different light for more established researchers.

(https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Environmental-Politics/Death/p/book/9780415631228)