Living with Nature

PART I. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION FO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; 1. Sustainable Development and the Crisis of Nature: On the Political Anatomy of an Oxymoron; 2. The North as/and the Other: Ecology, Domination, Solidarity; 3. Nature in Spiritual Traditions: Social and Cultural Implications for Environmental Change; PART II. DISCOURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND EXPERTISE; 4. Engineering the Environment: The Politics of Nature Development; 5. Eco-managerialism: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge Formation; 6. Mapping Complex Socio-Natural Relationships: Cases from Mexico and Africa; 7. Security and Solidarity: Toward an Anti-Reductionist Framework for the Analysis of Environmental Policy; PART III. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; 8. The Environment of Justice; 9. Images of Place in Green Politics: The Cultural Mirror of Indigenous Traditions; 10. Partnership Ethics and Cultural Discourse: Women and the Earth Summit

Frank Fischer is a Professor of Political Science at Rugers and member of Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Maarten Hajer is a Professor of Political Science University of Amsterdam.