The logic of environmentalism : anthropology, ecology, and postcoloniality /
"Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this book that chal...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2005.
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| Series: | Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this book that challenges the widespread assumption that environmentalism reflects a radical departure from modernity. Our perception of nature may have changed, the author maintains, but environmentalism remains a thoroughly modernist project. It reproduces the cultural logic of modernity, a logic that finds meaning in unity and therefore strives to efface difference, and to reconfirm the position of the West as the source of all legitimate signification."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 195 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782381945 1782381945 |