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Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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Robbins on Political Ecology as Critique

By gtdonovan | Published: 06.27.2010
From Political Ecology, p12-13: As critique, political ecology seeks to expose flaws in dominant approaches to the environment favored by corporate, state, and international authorities, working to demonstrate the undesirable impacts of policies and market conditions , especially from the point of view of local people, marginal groups, and vulnerable populations. It works to “denaturalize” [...]
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Escobar on the Political Ecology of Technonature

By gtdonovan | Published: 03.12.2010
From After Nature, p13: A definition of political ecology for technonature would emphasize the biocultural configurations that are emerging and those that are possible according to particular constellations of actors, technologies, and practices. The political ecology of technonature would study the actual and potential biocultural arrangements linked to technoscience, particularly along the axes of organicity-artiflciality [...]
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Castells on Environmentalism and Ecology

By gtdonovan | Published: 03.05.2010
From The Power of Identity (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II), pp 112-113: By environmentalism I refer to all forms of collective behavior that, in their discourse and in their practice, aim at correcting destructive forms of relationship between human action and its natural environment, in opposition to the prevailing structural and [...]
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Latour on Political Ecology

By gtdonovan | Published: 03.01.2010
From the Politics of Nature, p246: The term does not differentiate between scientific ecology and political ecology; it is built on the model of (but in opposition to) “political economy.” It is thus used to designate, by opposition to the “bad” philosophy of ecology, the understanding of ecological crises that no longer uses nature to [...]
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