Title: Engaging the everyday : environmental social criticism and the resonance dilemma /
Authors: Meyer, John M.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental sociology.; Environmental responsibility; Environmental policy Social aspects; Environmental protection Social aspects.; Environmental policy Social aspects.; Environmental protection Social aspects; Environmental responsibility; Environmental sociology
Abstract: "Meyer pioneers a uniquely political approach to environmental social criticism that follows from a startling central propostion: that it is not outright oppression and denialism that are the most significant impediments but what he aptly terms the 'resonance dilemma.' This is the failure of climate and environmental challenges - however important we may grant that they are - to strike us as integral everyday concerns. This lively, eloquent, accessible volume models the very style of social criticism that it calls for in response to this dilemma: a 'resonant' environmental criticism that works on (rather than against) everyday practices." Lisa Disch, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy.
Contents: Introduction : the resonance dilemma and environmental social criticism -- Toward a political theory of materiality -- We have never been liberal -- The question of materiality in environmental politics -- Private practices yet political -- Land and the concept of private property -- Automobility and freedom -- Homes, household practices, and the domain(s) of citizenship -- Conclusion.