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Nature, knowledge and negation /
The first emphasis of the volume is on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. The second emphasis is on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distrac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Current perspectives in social theory ;
vol. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Nature, Knowledge and Negation; Copyright page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction; Notes; References; Part I: Nature; Chapter 1. Climate Change, the Resource Crunch, and The Global Growth Imperative; The growth imperative: From postwar modernization to globalization; Climate change, ecological damage, and catastrophic risk; Synergistic impacts: Climate change and other growth-related ecological problems; Globalizing consumption: Hypergrowth and planetary overshoot; Critical social thought's ecological task: Re-embedding the social in nature.
- AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; Chapter 2. Social theory, climate change, and the humanity-nature relation; 1. The growth imperative; 2. Anthropogenic global warming?; 3. Re-embedding the social in nature: Proceed with care; Notes; References; Chapter 3. 'Choose life' not economic growth: critical social theory for people, planet and flourishing in the 'age of nature'; Introduction; Growthmania: The cancer stage of capitalism; Climate change, culture and subjectivities; Peak oil and a post-carbon world; Sustainable alternatives to growthmania; Transitions away from growth: Creative descent?
- ConclusionReferences; Chapter 4. Reply to my critics: Choosing life; Notes; References; Chapter 5. Developing planetarian accountancy: Fabricating nature as stock, service, and system for green governmentality; 1. Introduction; 2. Expertarchy, nation-states and ''nature''; 3. Sites of green governmentality; 4. Centers of assessment and action; 5. Summary thoughts; References; Chapter 6. Social action and catastrophe; 1. Introduction; 2. Action in extreme environments; 3. Sociology and the study of anatomical social facts; 4. Toward an anatomical sociology of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina.
- 5. Toward a model of human reaction to catastrophes6. A model of social action in catastrophic situations; 7. Conclusions; Notes; References; Part II: Knowledge; Chapter 7. Forty years of knowledge and human interests: A brief appreciation; 1. Reflection and critique; 2. Dancing with antinomies; 3. Capacities and incapacities; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Public sociology and the governance of possibility; Introduction; Burawoy's ontological fiction; Pro-professional public sociology's contribution to neoliberalism; The possibility of transformative public sociology; Notes; References.
- Chapter 9. Peirce, pragmaticism and public sociology: Translating an interpretation into praxis1. Introduction: A triadic epistemology and a meta meta-paradigmatic perspective; 2. Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmaticism and semiotics; 3. Semiotics as a methodology; 4. Signs and sign systems; 5. The role of Theory; 6. Methodological considerations and practical outcomes: Using semiotics wisely; 7. Symbolic interactionism versus semiotic interactionism; 8. Semiotics and critical theory; 9. Semiotic sharpening of pragmatist insights; 10. Peirce's interpretation of the world; 11. Pedagogy; Notes.