Everyday environmentalism : creating an urban political ecology

Everyday environmentalism : creating an urban political ecology /

Everyday Envirnomentalism develops a conversation between marxist theories of everyday life and recent work in urban political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis in relation to the politics of urban environments. Grounding its theoretical debate in empirical studies of struggles to obtain w...

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Main Author: Loftus, Alex
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement II.
Subjects:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Political ecology.
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Biology)
urban environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Environmentalism
Political ecology
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Table of Contents:
  • Emerging moments in an urban political ecology
  • The Urbanization of nature: Neil Smith and posthumanist controversies
  • Sensuous socio-natures: The concept of nature in Marx
  • Cyborg consciousness: questioning the dialectics of nature in Lukács
  • When theory becomes a material force: Gramsci's conjunctural natures
  • Cultural praxis as the production of nature: Lefebvrean Natures
  • The Nature of everyday life.

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