Written in an engaging and accessible manner by
one of the leading scholars in his field,
Environment and Social Theory, completed
revised and updated with two new chapters, is an
indispensable guide to the way in which the environment
and social theory relate to one another.
This popular
text outlines the complex interlinking of the
environment, nature and social theory from ancient and
pre-modern thinking to contemporary social theorizing.
John Barry:
- examines the ways major religions such as
Judaeo-Christianity have and continue to conceptualize
the environment
- analyzes the way the non-human environment
features in Western thinking from Marx and Darwin, to
Freud and Horkheimer
- explores the relationship between gender and the
environment, postmodernism and risk society schools of
thought, and the contemporary ideology of orthodox
economic thinking in social theorising about the
environment.
How humans value, use and
think about the environment, is an increasingly central
and important aspect of recent social theory. It has
become clear that the present generation is faced with a
series of unique environmental dilemmas, largely
unprecedented in human history.
With summary points,
illustrative examples, glossary and further reading
sections this invaluable resource will benefit anyone
with an interest in environmentalism, politics,
sociology, geography, development studies and
environmental and ecological economics.
