The logic of environmentalism : anthropology, ecology, and postcoloniality / Vassos Argyrou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Argyrou, Vassos, author.

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; Volume 1.

Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Environmentalism--Philosophy.

Environmentalism.

Ethnobiology--Philosophy.

Ethnobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Summary:

Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book that challenges the widespread assumption that environmentalism reflects a radical departure from modernity. Our perception of nature may have changed, the author maintains, but environmentalism remains a thoroughly modernist project. It reproduces the cultural logic of modernity, a logic that finds meaning in unity and therefore strives to efface difference, and to reconfirm the position of the West as the source of all legitimate signification.

Contents:

The Logic of Environmentalism; Contents; Prelude; 1. First Change; 2. Second Change; 3. The Logic of the Same; 4. 'Beyond Humanism': and further to the other side; 5. No Change; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781845451059

1845451058

9781845450328

1845450329

9781782381945

1782381945

OCLC:

953629491