Environment and social theory /
John Barry
- 2nd ed.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007
- xv, 350. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Routledge introductions to the environment .
- Routledge introductions to the environment .
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Nature", "environment" and social theory -- The role of the environment historically within social theory -- The uses of "nature" and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and enlightenment accounts -- Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- The environment and economic thought -- Risk, environment and postmodernism -- Ecology, biology and social theory -- Greening social theory
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