The Meaning of Growth uses interpretive social science to uncover the cultural roots of political resistance to environmental science and policy. This book should be of interest to academics in the fields of environmental sociology and communications studies.
The Meaning of Growth uses interpretive social science to uncover the cultural roots of political resistance to environmental science and policy. This book should be of interest to academics in the fields of environmental sociology and communications studies.
Richard McNeill Douglas is a research fellow of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at the University of Surrey and fellow of the Westminster Abbey Institute. Previously, Douglas has worked at the UK Parliament, for the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth. His writing on the environment and political economy has appeared in three books and a range of publications, including Energy Research & Social Science, Environmental Humanities, Environmental Politics, International Journal of Green Economics, Social Epistemology, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, Political Quarterly, Prospect, Monthly Review, Capitalism Nature Socialism, The Mint Magazine, Left Foot Forward, and Church Times.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword. Prologue: 1972 - The high-water mark of modernity. Introduction: The question mark. 1. An irrational denial of limits? 2. Interpreting the denial of limits: the secular theodicy of modernity 3. Growthism vs limitism: a new analysis of environmental discourse 4. Freedom: The good life according to growthism 5. Power: the economy in mind 6. Immortality: growth against death. Conclusion: limits and transcendence
Foreword. Prologue: 1972 - The high-water mark of modernity. Introduction: The question mark. 1. An irrational denial of limits? 2. Interpreting the denial of limits: the secular theodicy of modernity 3. Growthism vs limitism: a new analysis of environmental discourse 4. Freedom: The good life according to growthism 5. Power: the economy in mind 6. Immortality: growth against death. Conclusion: limits and transcendence
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