Environmental Sociology

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781538116777
• ISBN-10: 1538116774
• Artikelnr.: 54387753

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