Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism

TRAMA

In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of 'critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the<BR>century, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed at<BR>how to acknowledge and recognize, rather than deny, the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice, the myriad ways people define and experience the 'environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement, with<BR> its base in diversity, its networked structure, and its communicative practices and demands, exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model.

SOMMARIO

Part 1Pluralism and Difference: The Environmental Challenge; Introduction: The Environmental Challenge to Pluralism; Approaches to Difference in the US Environmental Movement: Classification Schemes, Hegemonic Definitions, and Singular Motivations; Part IICritical Pluralism in Theory; Pluralism and Difference: A Genealogy of Multiplicity; Components of a Critical Pluralism: Ethics and Processes; Part IIIEnvironmental Justice: Critical Pluralism in Practice; The Politics of Networking in the Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement; Communicative Practices and Communicative Demands in the Environmental Justice Movement; Part IVConclusion; Environmental Justice and the Prospects for a Critical Pluralism

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199256419
• Dimensioni: 216 x 14.7 x 139 mm Ø 294 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 236