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Castells on Environmentalism and Ecology
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
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 [...]
Engels on Nature
From the Dialectics of Nature: It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought.
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Robbins on Political Ecology as Critique