Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn / by Thomas S.J. Smith.
2019
HM856-861
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Title
Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn / by Thomas S.J. Smith.
Author
Smith, Thomas S. J.
ISBN
9783319940786
3319940783
9783319940779 (print)
3319940775
9783319940793 (print)
3319940791
9783030067908 (print)
3030067904
3319940783
9783319940779 (print)
3319940775
9783319940793 (print)
3319940791
9783030067908 (print)
3030067904
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (VII, 93 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-94078-6 doi
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HM856-861
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.707
Summary
This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction, and quantification to an unprecedented extent. As such, the book argues that our ways of measuring both the environment, such as through sustainability metrics like footprints and Payments for Ecosystem Services, and society, through gross domestic product and wellbeing measures, play a constitutive and problematic role in how we conceive of ourselves in the world. Subsequently, as the quantified environmental approach drives a dualistic wedge between the human and non-human realms, in its final section the book puts forward recent developments in new materialism and feminist ethics of care as providing practical ways of re-founding sustainable development in a way that firmly acknowledges human-ecological relations. This book will be an invaluable reference for scholars and students in the fields of human geography, political ecology, and environmental sociology.-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The New Sustainable Development Agenda: An Introduction to Measurement and Conceptualisation
Chapter 2
The Abstraction of Nature and the Death of Environmental Politics: Our Calculable Earth
Chapter 3
Our Calculable Selves: The rise and hegemony of wellbeing discourse
Chapter 4
Ecological Ethics of Care and the Multiple Self: Revisiting the roots of environmentalism.
The New Sustainable Development Agenda: An Introduction to Measurement and Conceptualisation
Chapter 2
The Abstraction of Nature and the Death of Environmental Politics: Our Calculable Earth
Chapter 3
Our Calculable Selves: The rise and hegemony of wellbeing discourse
Chapter 4
Ecological Ethics of Care and the Multiple Self: Revisiting the roots of environmentalism.