Discourses Of The Environment

Provides critical understandings of the environment using theoretical perspectives inspired by Michel Foucault. The 11 contributions examine the proliferation of discourses about the environment that have emerged in the past 30 years, and help make sense of the significance of environmental legislation, regulation, institution-building, environmental movements, and new environmental practices. The volume also explores issues of current public and academic debate, such as the construction of environmental awareness and how concerns for the environment translate into new social practices. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Eric Darier is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change at Lancaster University (UK) and previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environmental Policy Unit, Queens University, Canada. His publications include Premises about Environmental Studies in Context: Knowledge, Language, History and the Self in Michael D. Metha & Eric Ouellet (Eds.) Environmental Sociology: Theory and Practice (Toronto: Captus Press, 1995) and Time to be Lazy: Work, the Environment and Modern Subjectivities in Time and Society 7(2) September 1998.