Green Politics and the Culture of Consumerism (Neo Liberalism)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780230514157
Subjects: Green movement; Environmental policy
Description: This volume examines the links between stress, social division and excessive competition that are associated with the neoliberal discourse. Discourse analysis is used in a critical manner to examine the way that environmental issues are shaped.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Discourse, Power and Environmental Policy; 2 Rational Choice Theory and Environmental Policy; 3 Science, Politics and Environmentalists; 4 Neo-liberalism and Green Politics; 5 Health and Materialism; 6 The Politics of Performance; 7 A Green Alternative; 8 Truth, Technology and Progress; 9 Concluding Comments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.