Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism

The Challenge of Difference for Environmentalism

AvDavid Schlosberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of `critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the century, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed at how to acknowledge and recognize, rather than deny, the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice, the myriad ways people define and experience the `environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement, with its base in diversity, its networked structure, and its communicative practices and demands, exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-04-01
Mått:144 x 223 x 18 mm
Vikt:405 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198294856

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David Schlosberg is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University

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Unlike many books in political science, Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism will be as helpful to political activists as it will be to academics. It delineates the differences among different generations of pluralist thought and relates those differences to efforts to organize the environmental movement, suggesting ways that would be both more effective and more just. This book is important because it is one of the first by a political theorist to examine the theoretical implications of the environmental justice movement carefully. Let us hope it opens doors that other political scientists will explore

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PART 1. PLURALISM AND DIFFERENCE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL 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 2. CRITICAL PLURALISM IN THEORY ; 3. Pluralism and Difference: A Genealogy of Multiplicity ; 4. Components of a Critical Pluralism: Ethics and Processes ; PART 3. 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 4. CONCLUSION ; 7. Environmental Justice and the Prospects for a Critical Pluralism