Critical Environmental Politics

<p>The aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions problems and research agendas in the field. </p><p>The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism and spanning disciplines including international relations geography sociology history philosophy anthropology and political science. The 28 chapters cover a range of global and local studies illustrations and cases. These range from the Cochabamba conference in Bolivia to climate camps in the UK; UN summits in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to climate migrants from Pacific islands; forests in Indonesia to Dutch energy governance reform; indigenous communities in Namibia to oil extraction in the Niger Delta; survivalist militias in the USA to Maasai tribesmen in Kenya. </p><p>Rather than following a regional or issue-based (e.g. water forests pollution etc) structure the volume is organised in terms of key concepts in the field including those which have been central to the social sciences for a long time (such as citizenship commodification consumption feminism justice movements science security the state summits and technology); those which have been at the heart of environmental politics for many years (including biodiversity climate change conservation eco-centrism limits localism resources sacrifice and sustainability); and many which have been introduced to these literatures and debates more recently (biopolitics governance governmentality hybridity posthumanism risk and vulnerability).</p><p>Features and benefits of the book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Explains the most important concepts and theories in environmental politics. </li> <p> </p> <li>Reviews the core ideas behind crucial debates in environmental politics.</li> <p> </p> <li>Highlights the key thinkers – both classic and contemporary – for studying environmental politics.</li> <p> </p> <li>Provides original perspectives on the critical potential of the concepts for future research agendas as well as for the practice of environmental politics.</li> </ul><p>Each chapter is written by leading international authors in their field. </p><p>This exciting new volume will be essential textbook reading for all students of environmental politics as well as provocatively presenting the field in a different light for more established researchers.</p>