Environmental justice and the new pluralism : the challenge of difference for environmentalism / David Schlosberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlosberg, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--United States.

Environmental justice.

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States.

Environmentalism.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

In this theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of critical pluralism. His study presents a challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Part I. Environmentalism and Difference: The Pluralist Challenge

1. Introduction: The Environmental Challenge to Pluralism

2. Approaches to Difference in the US Environmental Movement: Classification Schemes, Hegemonic Definitions, and Singular Motivations

Part II. Critical Pluralism in Theory

3. Pluralism and Difference: A Genealogy of Multiplicity

4. Components of a Critical Pluralism: Ethics and Processes

Part III. Environmental Justice: Critical Pluralism in Practice

5. The Politics of Networking in the Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement

6. Communicative Practices and Communicative Demands in the Environmental Justice Movement

Part IV. Conclusion

7. Environmental Justice and the Prospects for a Critical Pluralism

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-217) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191522376

0191522376

OCLC:

922953871