The logic of environmentalism
Subtitle: anthropology, ecology, and postcoloniality
By: Vassos Argyrou.
Series: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ;; v. 1
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Human ecology -- Philosophy; Environmentalism -- Philosophy; Ethnobiology -- Philosophy
Description: "Although modernity's understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands.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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.