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Environment and social theory / John Barry.

By: Barry, John, 1966-Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge introductions to environment seriesPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 350 p. : ill. ; [ca. 23-29] cmISBN: 9780415376174 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415376167 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415376173 (hardback); 0415376165 (pbk.)Subject(s): Human ecology -- Philosophy | Human ecology -- Religious aspects | Social sciences -- Philosophy | Human beings -- Effect of environment onLOC classification: GF21 | .B28 2007Online resources: Click here to view Also available as an electronic resource.
Contents:
1. "Nature", "environment" and social theory -- 2. The role of the environment historically within social theory -- 3. The uses of "nature" and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and enlightenment accounts -- 4. Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- 5. Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- 6. Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- 7. Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- 8. The environment and economic thought -- 9. Risk, environment and postmodernism -- 10. Ecology, biology and social theory -- 11. Greening social theory.
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