UID:
almahu_9949385816102882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages).
ISBN:
9780429327100
,
0429327102
,
1000765512
,
9781000765694
,
1000765695
,
9781000765601
,
1000765601
,
9781000765519
Series Statement:
Routledge explorations in environmental studies
Content:
"This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits. Freedom, in all its renditions - choice, thought, action - has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively unbounded freedom that has resulted in so much ecological devastation. Liberty has piggy-backed on transformations in human-nature relationships that characterize the Anthropocene: increasing extraction of resources, industrialization, technological development, ecological destruction, and mass production linked to global consumerism. This volume provides a deeply critical examination of the concept of liberty as it relates to environmental politics and ethics in the long view. Contributions explore this entanglement of freedom and the ecological crisis as well as investigate alternative modernities and more ecologically benign ways of living on Earth. The overarching framework for this collection is that liberty and agency need to be rethought before these strongly held ideals of our age are forced out. On a finite planet, our choices will become limited if we hope to survive the climatic transitions set in motion by uncontrolled consumption of resources and energy over the past one hundred and fifty years. This volume suggests concrete political and philosophical approaches and governance strategies for learning how to flourish in news ways within the ecological constraints of the planet. Mapping out new ways forward for long term ecological well-being, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of ecology, environmental ethics, politics and sociology and for the wider audience interested in the human-earth relationship and global sustainability"--
Note:
Forward / by Dale Jamieson -- Introduction / Bruce Jennings, Kaitlin Kish, and Christopher J. Orr -- Liberty in the near Anthropocene : state, market, and livelihood / Stephen Quilley -- Nations and nationalism in the Anthropocene / Steven J. Mock -- Reclaiming freedom through prefigurative politics / Kaitlin Kish -- Are freedom and interdependency compatible? Lessons from classical liberal and contemporary feminist theory / Amy R. McCready -- Limits and liberty in the Anthropocene / Peter F. Cannavò -- The virtue ethics alternative to freedom for a mutually beneficial human-earth relationship / Anna Beresford -- Who stands for Un̳čí Makhá : the liberal nation-state, racism, freedom, and nature / Jeffery L. Nicholas -- Nature, liberty, and ontology : why nature experience still exists and matters in the Anthropocene / Piers H.G. Stephens -- Liberation from excess -- a post-growth economy case for freedom in the Anthropocene / Rafael Ziegler -- Cognitively unstable rational agents : a new challenge for economics in the Anthropocene? / Morgan Tait -- The civilicene and its alternatives : anthropology and its longue durée / Joshua Sterlin -- Defending and driving the climate movement by redefining freedom / Aaron Karp -- A beginners guide to avoiding bad policy mistakes in the Anthropocene / Martin Hensher -- Liberty, energy and complexity in the longue durée / Stephen Quilley -- Forest on trial : towards a relational theory of legal agency for transitions into the Ecozoic / Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio -- From the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene to harmony in the Ecozoic / Christopher J. Orr and Peter G. Brown.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Liberty and the ecological crisis Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020] ISBN 9780367346775
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429327100
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