From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and critical design studies to provide a definitive mapping of the state of environmental social theory in the age of the anthropocene.Environments, Natures and Social Theory provokes dialogue and confrontation between critical political economists, actor network theorists, neo-Malthusians and environmental justice advocates. It maps out the new environmental politics of hybridity moving from hybrid neo-liberals to end times ecologists, from post environmentalists to cyborg eco-socialists. White, Rudy and Gareau insist on the necessity of a critical but optimistic hybrid politics, arguing that a more just, egalitarian, democratic and sustainable anthropocene is within our grasp. This will only be brought into being, however, by reclaiming, celebrating and channeling the reconstructive potential of entangled hybrid humans as inventive hominids, creative gardeners, critical publics and political agents. Written in an accessible style, Environments, Natures and Social Theory is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences.

Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity (Themes in Social Theory, 6)

Politics & Social Sciences

White, Damian

Rudy, Alan

Gareau, Brian

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and critical design studies to provide a definitive mapping of the state of environmental social theory in the age of the anthropocene. Environments, Natures and Social Theory provokes dialogue and confrontation between critical political economists, actor network theorists, neo-Malthusians and environmental justice advocates. It maps out the new environmental politics of hybridity moving from hybrid neo-liberals to end times ecologists, from post environmentalists to cyborg eco-socialists. White, Rudy and Gareau insist on the necessity of a critical but optimistic hybrid politics, arguing that a more just, egalitarian, democratic and sustainable anthropocene is within our grasp. This will only be brought into being, however, by reclaiming, celebrating and channeling the reconstructive potential of entangled hybrid humans as inventive hominids, creative gardeners, critical publics and political agents. Written in an accessible style, Environments, Natures and Social Theory is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences.

Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity (Themes in Social Theory, 11)

Review\nThere is a magnetic quality to the way Damian White crafts his verses that makes his words pop out of the pages, becoming more than a sum of their parts. This is what top-tier poets do.\n~ Readers' Favorite\nReaders can navigate White's terrain with a sense of unfolding lies, secrets, and revelations that coexist under the veneer of truth, understanding, and reality both within and outside self, in the greater world.\n~ Midwest Book Review\nIf you've got I Made a Place for You on your coffee table or bedside table, it's going to prove extremely browsable. Pick it up and flip through it and spend time with a couple of artists who spent careful time curating and connecting things they care deeply about.\n~ Independent Book Review\nThis is an emotionally-resonant, observant, and thought-provoking collection of poetry. I heartily enjoyed I Made A Place For You for its potent, authentic and lyrical poetry that expertly utilized beautiful imagery to add additional layers to an already fascinating collection.\n~ Literary Titan\nThe images marry the whimsical and the macabre with elements of both Dalí and The Little Prince. While the drawings aren't explicitly religious, they convey a journey through the unknown and the indescribable...\n~ Kirkus\n"...a wholly original work that asks all of us to look a bit deeper inside ourselves, and to excavate all that we've buried for too long."\n- Dr. Clint Smith, New York Times best-selling author of How The Word Is Passed\n"It's like language poetry crossed with gospel: extremely powerful."\n- Dan Gutstein, author of Metacarpalism\n---\nWhat if I told you the golden rule of speech is to speak when spoken through?\nThis poetry collection explores a number of themes, ranging from spirituality and religion to perseverance and humility. The poems in Damian White's debut book dwell less in the realm of imagistic and narrative impulses and more so strive for "higher order statement."\nIn I Made A Place For You, we experience the turmoil unearthed from daring to make a place for our inmost curiosities.

I Made A Place For You

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Atmosphere Press

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