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Zusatztext David Schlosberg raises the issues of diversity, pluralism, and environmental politics in ways that compel attention. Careful and tightly argued, but also eloquent and readable, _Environmental Justice and the New Pluralism_ deserves a broad audience. While environmentalists have long understood that ecosystems thrive on diversity and require analytical and ethical frameworks to match, the metaphors have sometimes not been taken seriously enough in that other, stranger ecosystem - the social and political world. Schlosberg invites us to bridge the gap, to think politically about problems and solutions that can only, ever be political. Klappentext In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement! David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of 'critical' pluralism! in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of thecentury! the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed athow to acknowledge and recognize! rather than deny! the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice! the myriad ways people define and experience the 'environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement! with its base in diversity! its networked structure! and its communicative practices and demands! exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model. Zusammenfassung In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of 'critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. His timely and sophisticated study presents a challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction: The Environmental Challenge to Pluralism Approaches to Difference in the US Environmental Movement: Classification Schemes, Hegemonic Definitions, and Singular Motivations Part II Pluralism and Difference: A Genealogy of Multiplicity Components of a Critical Pluralism: Ethics and Processes Part III The Politics of Networking in the Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement Communicative Practices and Communicative Demands in the Environmental Justice Movement Part IV Environmental Justice and the Prospects for a Critical Pluralism ...
