Social Theories for the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

Diversities Across the Divides
Redaktion: Godfrey, Phoebe; Galilea, Ordoitz

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to key social theories from classical, multicultural, global, and indigenous perspectives, while also inviting them to understand social theories as stories that create our culturally specific social realities.

The readings in this collection emphasize the ways our culturally perceived social-environmental divide has historically been constructed to the detriment of both society and the environment. Social Theories for the Anthropocene offers students the theoretical tools necessary to re-imagine and re-dream. First, to re-imagine what it means to be 'human' as we culturally define it. Second, to rethink how to apply such new possibilities to the transformation of Western culture from its current self-destructive trajectory to something more equitable and more sustainable.

Placing readings from classical social theory in dialogue with writings from a diverse range of modern thinkers, this timely reader will be indispensable for undergraduate students and instructors undertaking courses on social theory, the environment, climate change, and ecology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040428832
• Artikelnr.: 75686290

Autorenporträt

Phoebe Godfrey is Professor in Residence of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research interests include ecology, sustainability, climate change, food, social justice, and social theory. A scholar-activist, her research and teaching seek to put her personal commitments to equality, justice, and sustainability into practice. She is the author of Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Connecticut (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor of Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (Routledge, 2016) and Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (Routledge, 2016). She is the co-founder of the CLiCK (Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen) in Windham, Connecticut. Ordoitz Galilea is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Susquehanna University, USA, where he teaches foundations and theory courses in sociology, as well as criminology, human rights, and environmental sociology. His research primarily focuses on community culture and how collective meanings are created, spread, contested, and impact upon individual behaviors. Currently, he is researching how community identity and values are presented through festivals and public celebrations, such as the annual running of the bulls in his native Pamplona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Where Are We
Anyhow? Charles Lemert
Preface by Raouf Mama
How To Use This Book
A Note on Stories and Cultural Heritage
1. Introduction Part I - Void: Origins
Birth
Emergence
2. Introduction to Part I Ordoitz Galilea
3. You'll Never Believe What Happened: The Truth About Stories Thomas King
4. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
5. Genesis (from The Holy Bible)
6. The Creation (from Metamorphoses Book I) Ovid
7. Society as Objective Reality (from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge) Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
8. Introduction (from A Vindication of the Rights of Women) Mary Wollstonecraft
9. The Woman I Love is a Planet: The Planet I Love is a Tree (from This Sacred Earth: Religion
Nature
Environment) Paula Gunn Allen
10. Pink and Blue Forever (from Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World) Anna Fausto-Sterling
11. Social Facts (from The Rules of the Sociological Method) Emile Durkheim
12. The Legend of Peugeot (from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind) Yuval Noah Harari
13. Black Feminism in Transnational Context (from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge
Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment) Patricia Hill Collins
14. Introduction (from The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise) Martin Prechtel
15. Homo Sapiens: Born of the Earth (from The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our Place in Nature) David Suzuki (with Amanda McConnell and Adrienne Mason)
16. Biyaal (preface) (from Indigenous Knowledge Production: Navigating Humanity within a Western World) Marcus Woolombi Waters
17. There's Knowledge In (from Fertile Ground: Beauty and Brokenness) Raluca Mocanu
Part II - Water: Spirit
Emotions
Meaning
18. Introduction to Part II Zareen Reza
19. Soul Sounds Cara Jackson
20. Introduction (from Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence) Gregory Cajete
21. Estranged Labor (from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844) Karl Marx
22. The Honorable Harvest (from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom
Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants) Robin Wall Kimmerer
23. Aztec Creation Myth
24. Of Our Spiritual Strivings (from The Souls of Black Folk) W.E.B. DuBois
25. The Social Self - The Meaning of 'I' (from Human Nature and the Social Order) Charles Horton Cooley
26. A Fable for Tomorrow (from Silent Spring) Rachel Carson
27. Rachel Carson was Right - Then and Now (from Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment) Joni Seager
28. Pythagoras's Teachings: The Elements (from The Metamorphoses) Ovid
29. Feminist Textual Analysis - The Problem of Sociological Description (from Texts
Facts and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling) Dorothy E. Smith
30. A Matter of Tuning (from Elsewhere
Within Here: Immigration
Refugeeism and the Boundary Event) Trinh T. Minh-ha
31. Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (from The Sacred Canopy) Peter L. Berger
Part III - Earth: Matter
Life
Bodies
32. Introduction to Part III Ordoitz Galilea
33. Earth Will Tell Mohja Kahf
34. Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart (from Parallax) Karen Barad
35. Chinese Creation Myth
36. The Iron Cage: Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism (from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) Max Weber
37. Making Men
Making War (from Masculinity and the New War : The Gendered Dynamics of Contemporary Armed Conflict) David Duriesmith
38. A Fruitless Endeavor: Confronting the Heteronormativity of Environmentalism (from Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment) Cameron Butler
39. On the Instability of the (Notion of) Nature (from Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime) Bruno Latour
40. The Birth of Athena (from Theogony) Hesiod
41. Homeland Earth (from Journal of Conscious Evolution) Edgar Morin
42. The Monogamous Family (from The Origin of the Family
Private Property and the State) Friedrich Engels
43. First Prefatory Discussion and Supplementary Note to the Second Prefatory Discussion (from Muqaddimah) Ibn Khaldun
44. The Theory of the Body is Already a Theory of Perception (from Phenomenology of Perception) Maurice Merleau-Ponty
45. Always and All-Ways
Trees Move Jasmine K. Brown
Part IV - Fire: Change
Strife
Resilience
46. Introduction to Part IV Phoebe Godfrey
47. Big Brother Reven Smith
48. !Kung Hunter-Gathers: Feminism
Diet and Birth Control (from Science Magazine) Gina Bari Kolata
49. The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
50. Global Environmental and Climate Justice Movements (from Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment) David Pellow
51. Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South (from Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana) Arturo Escobar
52. The Anomic Division of Labour (from The Division of Labour in Society) Emile Durkheim
53. San Creation Myth
54. The Subsistence Perspective (from The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader)Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
55. Anthropocene and Environmental Justice (from Curating the Future: Museums
Communities and Climate Change) Rob Nixon
56. Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves (from This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation) Evelyn Alsultany
57. The Ecosex Manifesto 2.0 Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle with Guillermo Gomez-Peña
58. Indigenous Just Transformation (from Climate Justice and Community Renewal) Tom Goldtooth
59. Exile is Never the Ending of the Story Mohja Kahf
Part V - Air: Illusion
Death
Transformation
60. Introduction to Part V Ordoitz Galilea
61. Coming Home (from Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of Civilization) Roy Scranton
62. III (from Civilization and Its Discontents) Sigmund Freud
63. Stories
Histories and Conclusions (from The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable) Amitav Ghosh
64. Power of Death (from History of Sexuality) Michel Foucault
65. The Trouble with Wilderness; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (from Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature) William Cronon
66. Day of the Pipeline Mohja Kahf
67. What Makes the Mainstream Media Mainstream (from Z Magazine) Noam Chomsky
68. Colonization as Myth-Making: A Case Study of Aotearoa (from Being Indigenous) Moana Jackson
69. Simply Serve Nature and All is Well (from One Straw Revolution) Masanobu Fukuoka
70. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science
Technology
and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (from Simians
Cyborgs
and Women: The Reinvention of Nature) Donna Haraway
71. Interdependent Ecological Transsex (from Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory) Bailey Kier
72. The Rise of Critical Animal Studies (from Listening to Voices: On the Pleasures and Problems of Studying Human-Animal Relationships) Lynda Birke
73. Becker's Truth: Denial of Death as a Way of Life (from From Greed to Green ) Charles Derber
74. Inuit Creation Myth
75. Bestiary Joanna Macy
Part VI - Aether: Dissolution
Regeneration
Flexibility
76. Introduction to Part VI Phoebe Godfrey
77. Where Do We Start? Devin Samuels
78. The Power of Trees (from Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World) Wangari Maathai
79. Womanism and Agroecology: An Intersectional Praxis Seed Keeping as Acts of Political Warfare (from Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race
Class and Gender) Shakara Tyler and Aleya Fraser
80. Hindu Creation Myth
81. A Humongous Fungus Among Us (from Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections on Natural History) Stephen Jay Gould
82. Exploring the Nexus: Bringing Together Sustainability
Environmental Justice and Equity (from Space and Polity) Julian Agyeman
Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans
83. 'I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess': Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory (from PhiloSOPHIA) Jasbir K. Puar
84. Being Human (or What?) in the Digital Matrix Lan: The Construction of the Humanated (from Post-Human Futures: Human Enhancement
Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory) Pierpaolo Donati
85. Last Days of the Anthropocene - A Gallery Exhibit
with Questions Mohja Kahf
86. There is a River in Me: Theory from Life (from Theorizing Native Studies) Dian Million
87. On a Damaged Planet - Arts of Living (from Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet) Anna Tsing
Heather Anne Swanson
Elaine Gan
and Nils Bubandt
88. The Illusion of Scarcity (from Sacred Economics: Money
Gift and Society in the Age of Transition) Charles Eisestein
89. Someone Benjamin Todd
90. Where is the Holy Land? (from Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future) Leslie Gray