Environment and social theory /

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Author / Creator:Barry, John, 1966-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Description:ix, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge introductions to environment
Environment and society texts
Routledge introductions to environment series.
Environment and society.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3966337
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ISBN:0415172691
0415172705 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-235) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Series editors' preface
  • List of figures
  • List of boxes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the environment and social theory
  • Chapter 1. 'Nature', 'environment' and social theory
  • Chapter 2. The role of the environment historically within social theory
  • Chapter 3. The uses of 'nature' and the nonhuman world in social theory: pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment accounts
  • Chapter 4. Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world
  • Chapter 5. Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought
  • Chapter 6. The environment and economic thought
  • Chapter 7. Risk, environment and postmodernism
  • Chapter 8. Ecology, biology and social theory
  • Chapter 9. Greening social theory
  • Glossary
  • Internet resources and sites
  • Bibliography
  • Index