Environment and social theory / [manuscript] /
John Barry.
- 2nd ed.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- p. cm.
- Routledge introductions to the environment .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Nature", "environment" and social theory -- The role of the environment historically within social theory -- The uses of "nature" and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and enlightenment accounts -- Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- The environment and economic thought -- Risk, environment and postmodernism -- Ecology, biology and social theory -- Greening social theory.