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The Logic of Environmentalism
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Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality
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Artikel-Nr:
9781845450328
Veröffentl:
2005
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.09.2005
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Vassos Argyrou
Gewicht:
461 g
Format:
235x157x16 mm
Serie:
1, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Vassos Argyrou lectures in social anthropology at the University of Hull. He has also taught at Intercollege in Nicosia and several universities in the US, including Indiana State University, Reed College, Holy Cross College and Colgate University. Research interests include social and cultural theory, postcolonialism, ritual and myth, southern Europe
Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands.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.
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