CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

The aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions problems and research agendas in the field The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism and spanning disciplines including international relations geography sociology history philosophy anthropology and political science The 28 chapters cover a range of global and local studies illustrations and cases These range from the Cochabamba conference in Bolivia to climate camps in the UK UN summits in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to climate migrants from Pacific islands forests in Indonesia to Dutch energy governance reform indigenous communities in Namibia to oil extraction in the Niger Delta survivalist militias in the USA to Maasai tribesmen in Kenya Rather than following a regional or issue based e g water forests pollution etc structure the volume is organised in terms of key concepts in the field including those which have been central to the social sciences for a long time such as citizenship commodification consumption feminism justice movements science security the state summits and technology those which have been at the heart of environmental politics