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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457645003321

Autore

Luke Timothy W

Titolo

Ecocritique [[electronic resource] ] : contesting the politics of nature, economy, and culture / / Timothy W. Luke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8761-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Environmentalism

Green movement

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture; 1 Deep Ecology as Political Philosophy; 2 Ecological Politics and Local Struggles: Earth First! as an Environmental Resistance Movement; 3 The Nature Conservancy or the Nature Cemetery: Buying and Selling ""Perpetual Care"" as Environmental Resistance; 4 Worldwatching at the Limits of Growth; 5 Environmental Emulations: Terraforming Technologies and the Tourist Trade at Biosphere 2; 6 Green Consumerism: Ecology and the Ruse of Recycling; 7 Marcuse and the Politics of Radical Ecology

8 Developing an Arcological Politics: Paolo Soleri on Ecology, Architecture, and Society9 Community and Ecology: Bookchin on the Politics of Ecocommunities and Ecotechnology; Conclusion. New Departures for Ecological Resistance; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Timothy Luke exposes how ecological critics, organizations, and movements manipulate our conception of the environment. Turning the tables on the ecocritics, Luke demonstrates how ecocriticism can move beyond its familiar confines to engage larger cultural, economic, and political questions.