Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
Browse
The Logic of Environmentalism: Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

View Table of Contents


Series
Volume 1

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

The Logic of Environmentalism

Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

Vassos Argyrou

208 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-032-8 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (September 2005)

ISBN  978-1-84545-105-9 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (September 2005)

eISBN 978-1-78238-194-5 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845450328


View CartYour country: - edit  Buy the eBook from these vendorsRequest a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“…a fascinating journey through the European understanding of ‘nature’ as opposed to ‘humanism’…and interesting and provocative volume.”  ·   Journal of Biosocial Science

“…a powerful critique of contemporary environmentalism, and the anthropology that supports it.”  ·  Human Ecology

“Argyrou’s compelling argument has important implications for the future of conservation and development…the new ‘facts’ of environmentalism are no more objective or true than the old facts of modernism.”  ·  American Anthropologist

“This is…potentially an important book.”  ·  Environmental Politics

Description

Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands.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 provocative 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.

Vassos Argyrou lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull. His research interests include social and cultural theory, poststructuralism and postcolonialism and southern Europe. Publications include Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (Pluto Press 2002).

Subject: Environmental Studies (General)Anthropology (General)


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend The Logic of Environmentalism Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $135.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.