Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) now out in paperback

[damian...@gmail.com]

Colleagues, 

Just to inform you, our book Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) just came out today in paperback. 

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/environments-natures-and-social-theory-damian-white/?sf1=barcode&st1=9780230241039 

Drawing environmental sociology and geography in human and political ecology, cyborg feminism, ANT and environmental justice studies the core argument of the book suggest that the old two-dimensional environmental debate (limits/no limits/catastrophe/cornucopia) has exhausted itself as a productive frame of reference. We need to move beyond Malthus, romanticism, free market fanaticism and tired old contrarianism. Rather attention needs to turn to socio-ecological hybridities, justice, power, possibility and reconstruction..

You can read the preface and introduction "The socio-ecological imagination" for free here: 

https://www.academia.edu/19243110/The_Socio-Ecological_Imagination_Preface_and_Introduction_to_White_Rudy_Gareau_Environments_Natures_and_Social_Theory 

all the best,

Damian White

Head of the Department of History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 

Associate Professor of Sociology

Rhode Island School of Design

2 College Street, Providence, RI 02903 USA 434-202-9159

[Chan, Kai]

Thanks for sending this, Damian. From a quick look, it seems great. I’ll take a closer look as I prepare to teach my grad course at UBC, “Exploding Social-Ecological Systems”, KC

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Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services)

CHANS Lab (Connecting Human and Natural Systems)

Leopold Leadership Fellow; Global Young Academy member

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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z4

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[Robert Dyball]

Hi Kai

Your course looks great. My ANU course Human Futures has a similar focus.

You may be interested in this text (I attach a flyer and recent review), which I use (not surprising perhaps as I co-authored it).

You might also be aware the ESA Human Ecology Section is currently co-hosted at the Society for Human Ecology website.
http://societyforhumanecology.org/

We will be making announcements regarding the section's activity for ESA Floridia 2016 there - including travel awards.

You can follow on facebook and twitter @humanecology

Cheers

Rob (Human Ecology Section Chair)

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Dr Robert Dyball
Senior Lecturer, Human Ecology Program

Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University

Room 2.16 Building 141, Canberra 0200 Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 3704
Email: rob.dyball@anu.edu.au

Visiting Professor, University of the Philippines Los Baños

Editor, Human Ecology Review

Co-Author Understanding Human Ecology

Twitter @humanecology