Environmental Sociology

From Analysis to Action
Herausgeber: King, Leslie; Auriffeille, Deborah McCarthy

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Produktbeschreibung

Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action is designed to pique studentsà â â interest in environmental issues and to illustrate how sociological perspectives can help us better understand the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to environmental problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Fourth Edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781538116784
• ISBN-10: 1538116782
• Artikelnr.: 54380793

Autorenporträt

Leslie King is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College. Her areas of interest include population studies, environmental sociology and social movements. Her most recent research investigates corporatization of social movement activism. Debbie McCarthy Auriffeille is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the College of Charleston. Her areas of research have included environmental justice and sustainable lifestyles. She is currently completing a project on green parenting.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
PART I
Imagining Nature
Chapter 1. Nature's Looking Glass
Hillary Angelo and Colin Jerolmack
PART II
Political Economy
Chapter 2. Why Ecological Revolution?
John Bellamy Foster
Chapter 3. The Unfair Trade-off: Globalization and the Export of Ecological
Hazards
Daniel Faber
Chapter 4. The Tragedy of the Commodity: The Overexploitation of the
Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fisher
Stefano B. Longo and Rebecca Clausen
Chapter 5. Ecological Modernization at Work? Environmental Policy Reform in
Sweden at the Turn of the Century
Benjamin Vail
Chapter 6. A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological
Footprint in China, India, Japan, and the United States, 1961-2003
Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz
PART III
Race, Class, Gender and the Environment
*Chapter 7. The Du Bois Nexus: Intersectionality, Political Economy, and
Environmental Injustice in the Peruvian Guano Trade in the 1800s.
Brett Clark, Daniel Auerbach and Karen Xuan Zhang
*Chapter 8. Ruin's Progeny: Race, Environment, and Appalachia's Coal Camp
Blacks.
Karia L. Brown, Michael W. Murphy and Appollonya M. Porcelli
*Chapter 9. Environmental Apartheid: Eco-health and Rural Marginalization
in South Africa
Valerie Stull, Michael M. Bell and Mpumelelo Ncwadi
Chapter 10. Turning Public Issues into Private Troubles: Lead
Contamination, Domestic Labor, and the Exploitation of Women
Lois Bryson, Kathleen McPhillips, and Kathryn Robinson
PART IV
Media
Chapter 11. Media Framing of Body Burdens: Precautionary Consumption and
the Individualization of Risk
Norah MacKendrick
*Chapter 12. Legitimating the Environmental Injustices of War: Toxic
Exposures and Media Silence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Eric Bonds
Part V
Disaster
Chapter 13. The BP Disaster as an Exxon Valdez Rerun
Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Duane A. Gill, J. Steven Picou
Chapter 14. Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis
Thomas D. Beamish
*Chapter 15. Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New
Orleans Neighborhoods
Stever Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter and Pam Jenkins
PART VI
Social Movements
Chapter 16. People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit: Emotions,
Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation
Kari Marie Norgaard
*Chapter 17. Environmental Threats and Political Opportunities: Citizen
Activism in the North Bohemian Coal Basin
Thomas E. Shriver, Alison E. Adams, and Stefano B. Longo
Chapter 18. Politics by Other Greens: The Importance of Transnational
Environmental Justice Movement Networks
David Naguib Pellow
PART VII
Changes in Progress
*Chapter 19. Ontologies of Sustainability in Ecovillage Culture:
Integrating Ecology, Economics, Community, and Consciousness
Karen Liftin
*Chapter 20. Plans for pavement or for people? The Politics of Bike Lanes
on the 'Paseo Boricua' in Chicago, Illinois
Amy Lubitow, Bryan Zinschlag, and Nathan Rochester
*Chapter 21. Campus Alternative Food Projects and Food Service Realities:
Alternative Strategies
Peggy F. Barlett
*Chapter 22. From the New Ecological Paradigm to Total Liberation: The
Emergence of a Social Movement Frame
David N. Pellow and Hollie Nyseth Brehm
*Denotes new selections