TY - BOOK ID - 30703997 TI - Divided natures PY - 2002 SN - 0262286114 0585436630 0262250632 9780262286114 9780585436630 9780262250634 0262232219 9780262232210 0262731479 9780262731478 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Political ecology KW - Political ecology. KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Science Theory KW - Social ecology KW - Green movement KW - ENVIRONMENT/General KW - SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30703997 AB - In this book Kerry Whiteside introduces the work of a range of French ecological theorists to an English-speaking audience. He shows how thinkers in France and in English-speaking countries have produced different strains of ecological thought and suggests that the work of French ecological theorists could lessen pervasive tensions in Anglophone ecology.Much of the theory written in English is shaped by the debate between anthropocentric ecologists, who contend that the value of our nonhuman surroundings derives from their role in fulfilling human interests, and ecocentric ecologists, who contend that the nonhuman world holds ultimate value in and of itself. This debate is almost nonexistent among French theorists, who tend to focus on the processes linking nature and human identity. Whiteside suggests that the insights of French theorists could help English-language theorists to extricate themselves from endless debates over the real center of nature's value.Among the French theorists discussed are Denis de Rougemont, Denis Duclos, Rene Dumont, Luc Ferry, Andre Gorz, Felix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Alain Lipietz, Edgar Morin, Serge Moscovici, and Michel Serres. The English-language theorists discussed include John Barry, Robyn Eckersley, Robert Goodin, Tim Hayward, Holmes Rolston III, and Paul Taylor. ER -