Deleuze and environmental damage
Subtitle: violence of the text
By: by Mark Halsey.
Series: Advances in criminology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Deleuze, Gilles.; Offenses against the environment.; Environmental degradation.; Ecology -- Philosophy.; Human ecology.; Criminology.
Description: "This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation. Through a notably detailed micro-political analysis of forest conflict, the author explores the limits of academic commentary on environmental issues and suggests that the traditional variables of political economy, race and gender need to be recast in light of four key modalities through which 'the environment' and 'environmental damage' are (re)produced. Focusing on vision, speed, lexicon and affect, the book engages a new ethics for categorising and regulating 'Nature' and challenges criminologists, sociologists, cultural theorists and others to reconsider what it is possible to say and do about environmental problems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity and ecological thought : a brief critique; title: Environment and ecological thought; title: Ecology and machinic thought : Deleuze/Guattari; title: Event, method, lexicon; title: Becoming known; title: Becoming forest; title: Becoming contested; title: On the unsaid : text, nature(s), damage; title: Conclusion.