Cheryl Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 14 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environmental Governmentality
This chapter asks critical thinkers and activist movements to concentrate their efforts on mapping out how and why the essential tasks of government today pivot on the arts of exercising power in techno-economic forms in both “the ecology” and “the economy” to protect the environment, maintain order, and attain the good life through more effective governmentalizing actions. In turn, they must determine if such actions either attain democratic act…
Environmental Science and Politics
This chapter examines the relation between environmental science and politics with regard to its implications for environmental values, expert advice, and the public understanding of science. Environmental thinkers have offered powerful critiques of modern science, but they have also relied on science both to understand environmental problems and to legitimate political responses to them. Ironically, both romantic critics of science and their rat…
Ecological Democracy and the Co-participation of Things
Is ecological democracy possible? If so, what would it entail? This chapter first reviews the literature based in deliberative democracy that proposes to extend communicative competence to non-humans, and then traces an alternative constructivist line of environmental political thinking from its beginnings in the strand of science and technology studies pioneered by Bruno Latour and others known as actor-network theory, through two actor-network …
Human Nature, Non-human Nature, and Needs
This chapter assesses the relevance of Frankfurt School critical theory for contemporary environmental political theory. Early Frankfurt School thinkers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse developed a critique of instrumental rationality that provides a powerful framework for understanding the domination of nature in modernity, including an inability to articulate and defend human needs. Habermas subsequently attempts to mitigate this totaliz…
Capital, Environmental Degradation, and Economic Externalization
Neo-liberal principles of individualism, privatization, consumption, and unconstrained choice underpinning advanced capitalism are rapidly becoming the predominant strategy used in response to widespread environmental degradation and climate change. This essay describes and analyzes capital’s production of negative environmental externalities. Despite a slew of environmental legislation passed by governments the world over—a response to the deman…
Challenging the Human X Environment Framework
Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and opportunities for understanding and organizing an environmental politics able to transform environmental degradation and address global climate change. This essay explains how arguments about human embodiment, symbiosis, and human embeddedness in social and material habitats have led to a reconceptualization of the human as well as the environment. Next, …
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory
Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, this Handbook illustrates, defines, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT). Authors address canonical theorists and contemporary political and environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial section focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry wi…
Cultivating Human and Non-human Capabilities for Mutual Flourishing
The commitment to human flourishing in various traditions of political thought has been an important bridge between anthropocentrically conceived political theory and the more encompassing concerns of biocentrism and eco-centrism in environmental political theory. This chapter explores how this commitment has been developed and applied by scholars drawing on the theory of human capabilities—or “capabilities theory”—to imagine and construct an env…
Culture and Difference
Can non-Western traditions offer the West intellectual resources to re-conceptualize the human–nature relationship, and transform our ethical relationship to the natural world? This essay argues that there have been two kinds of approaches to this question: first, an almost purely ethical approach that is termed “civilizational,” which follows the logic inherent in biocentric critiques of Western anthropocentrism and instrumentalism; and second, …
Political Economy of the Greening of the State
Two different general claims have been made about large-scale political transformations produced by responses to environmental change. One is the claim that we are witnessing the potential emergence of a “green state,” where states internalize an ecological function as a core state imperative. Another is that we are undergoing a transition to an “environmental state.” The former claim thus envisages a radical transformation and its theory of the …
Global Environmental Justice and the Environmentalism of the Poor
There are an increasing number of ecological distribution conflicts around the world ultimately caused from the increase in the metabolism of the economy in terms of flows of energy and materials. There are resource extraction conflicts, transport conflicts, and also waste disposal conflicts. Therefore, there are many local complaints. Since the 1980s and 1990s there has been a globalizing environmental justice movement that in its strategy meeti…
Environmental Justice and the Anthropocene Meme
This essay examines the adoption of and the indifference to the term “Anthropocene” in diverse discourses addressing the urgency of climate change in the early twenty-first century. Through an analysis of keynote speeches, this essay argues that Anthropocene—a storytelling device invoking a pan-human species responsibility for the current climate crisis—is deployed widely within Euro-Australo-American academic environmental studies and environmen…
Sustainability— Post-sustainability— Unsustainability
Sustainability and sustainable development have become hegemonic frames shaping the ways in which national governments and international bodies conceptualize eco-political issues and devise related policy agendas. Yet, a consensus is emerging that this mainstream approach is unable to deliver the kind of structural change that is required if serious social conflicts and ecological collapse are to be prevented. This contribution explores why the p…
Responsibility for Climate Change as a Structural Injustice
This chapter critically explores the political and moral challenges involved in understanding the harms of climate change as the product of structural injustices with a specific focus on political responsibility. The chapter stages a critical encounter between Iris Marion Young's account of political responsibility, and the debate among climate justice theorists on how to assign responsibility for mitigation and adaptation to citizens and states.…
Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason
The Habitual Route to Environmentally Friendly (or Unfriendly) Happiness
I agree with Andreou that people are ‘highly adaptable when it comes to material goods.’ But I would supplement her point about the influence of social comparisons on experiences of happiness with a point about the influence of habit. Andreou does briefly mention habituation, arguing that ‘a good will give one less happiness once one has gotten used to having it.’ While this may be true, though, it is also true that one's sense of how necessary a…
Recognizing the Passion in Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Theory of Deliberative Democracy
Recognizing the Passion in Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Theory of Deliberative Democracy
Critics have suggested that deliberative democracy reproduces inequalities of gender, race, and class by privileging calm rational discussion over passionate speech and action. Their solution is to supplement deliberation with such forms of emotional expression. Hall argues that deliberation already inherently involves passion, a point that is especially important to recognize in order to deconstruct the dichotomy between reason and passion that …
Passions and constraint’: The marginalization of passion in liberal political theory
Positive arguments on behalf of passion are scarce in liberal political theory. Rather, liberal theorists tend to push passion to the margins of their theories of politics, either by ignoring it or by explicitly arguing that passion poses a danger to politics and is best kept out of the public realm. The purpose of this essay is to criticize these marginalizations and to illustrate their roots in impoverished conceptions of passion. Using a riche…
Reason, Passion, and Politics in Rousseau
What role do passion and sentiment play in politics, according to Rousseau? In this article I demonstrate that for Rousseau certain kinds of passion are crucially important to a healthy political society. I argue that passion plays a key role even in the Social Contract, despite that work's apparent turn toward the kind of dispassionate reason criticized in the Second Discourse. What is missing from the Social Contract is not political passion bu…
Beyond the "Literary Habit": Oral Tradition and Jazz in Beloved
Journal Article Beyond the “Literary Habit”: Oral Tradition and Jazz in Beloved Get access Cheryl Hall Cheryl Hall University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 89–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/467790 Published: 01 March 1994
G. Stanley Hall and Ashfield's academy dinners
The Annual Academy Dinners of Ashfield, Massachusetts were a forum for educational issues, and, in later years, for a wide range of political themes. G. Stanley Hall, a native of Ashfield, addressed these gatherings for eighteen of the twenty-five years they were held. Although they were of strong personal interest to Hall, it is evident that the Dinners played a role in the development of his professional life as well. The period encompassed by …
Recognizing the Passion in Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Theory of Deliberative Democracy
Critics have suggested that deliberative democracy reproduces inequalities of gender, race, and class by privileging calm rational discussion over passionate speech and action. Their solution is to supplement deliberation with such forms of emotional expression. Hall argues that deliberation already inherently involves passion, a point that is especially important to recognize in order to deconstruct the dichotomy between reason and passion that …
Responsibility for Climate Change as a Structural Injustice
This chapter critically explores the political and moral challenges involved in understanding the harms of climate change as the product of structural injustices with a specific focus on political responsibility. The chapter stages a critical encounter between Iris Marion Young's account of political responsibility, and the debate among climate justice theorists on how to assign responsibility for mitigation and adaptation to citizens and states.…
Passions and constraint’: The marginalization of passion in liberal political theory
Positive arguments on behalf of passion are scarce in liberal political theory. Rather, liberal theorists tend to push passion to the margins of their theories of politics, either by ignoring it or by explicitly arguing that passion poses a danger to politics and is best kept out of the public realm. The purpose of this essay is to criticize these marginalizations and to illustrate their roots in impoverished conceptions of passion. Using a riche…
Reason, Passion, and Politics in Rousseau
What role do passion and sentiment play in politics, according to Rousseau? In this article I demonstrate that for Rousseau certain kinds of passion are crucially important to a healthy political society. I argue that passion plays a key role even in the Social Contract, despite that work's apparent turn toward the kind of dispassionate reason criticized in the Second Discourse. What is missing from the Social Contract is not political passion bu…
G. Stanley Hall and Ashfield's academy dinners
The Annual Academy Dinners of Ashfield, Massachusetts were a forum for educational issues, and, in later years, for a wide range of political themes. G. Stanley Hall, a native of Ashfield, addressed these gatherings for eighteen of the twenty-five years they were held. Although they were of strong personal interest to Hall, it is evident that the Dinners played a role in the development of his professional life as well. The period encompassed by …
Beyond the "Literary Habit": Oral Tradition and Jazz in Beloved
Journal Article Beyond the “Literary Habit”: Oral Tradition and Jazz in Beloved Get access Cheryl Hall Cheryl Hall University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 1994, Pages 89–95, https://doi.org/10.2307/467790 Published: 01 March 1994
Reason, Passion, and Politics in Rousseau
What role do passion and sentiment play in politics, according to Rousseau? In this article I demonstrate that for Rousseau certain kinds of passion are crucially important to a healthy political society. I argue that passion plays a key role even in the Social Contract, despite that work's apparent turn toward the kind of dispassionate reason criticized in the Second Discourse. What is missing from the Social Contract is not political passion bu…
Passions and constraint’: The marginalization of passion in liberal political theory
Positive arguments on behalf of passion are scarce in liberal political theory. Rather, liberal theorists tend to push passion to the margins of their theories of politics, either by ignoring it or by explicitly arguing that passion poses a danger to politics and is best kept out of the public realm. The purpose of this essay is to criticize these marginalizations and to illustrate their roots in impoverished conceptions of passion. Using a riche…
Recognizing the Passion in Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Theory of Deliberative Democracy
Recognizing the Passion in Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Theory of Deliberative Democracy
Critics have suggested that deliberative democracy reproduces inequalities of gender, race, and class by privileging calm rational discussion over passionate speech and action. Their solution is to supplement deliberation with such forms of emotional expression. Hall argues that deliberation already inherently involves passion, a point that is especially important to recognize in order to deconstruct the dichotomy between reason and passion that …
The Habitual Route to Environmentally Friendly (or Unfriendly) Happiness
I agree with Andreou that people are ‘highly adaptable when it comes to material goods.’ But I would supplement her point about the influence of social comparisons on experiences of happiness with a point about the influence of habit. Andreou does briefly mention habituation, arguing that ‘a good will give one less happiness once one has gotten used to having it.’ While this may be true, though, it is also true that one's sense of how necessary a…
Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of Reason
Environmental Governmentality
This chapter asks critical thinkers and activist movements to concentrate their efforts on mapping out how and why the essential tasks of government today pivot on the arts of exercising power in techno-economic forms in both “the ecology” and “the economy” to protect the environment, maintain order, and attain the good life through more effective governmentalizing actions. In turn, they must determine if such actions either attain democratic act…
Environmental Science and Politics
This chapter examines the relation between environmental science and politics with regard to its implications for environmental values, expert advice, and the public understanding of science. Environmental thinkers have offered powerful critiques of modern science, but they have also relied on science both to understand environmental problems and to legitimate political responses to them. Ironically, both romantic critics of science and their rat…
Ecological Democracy and the Co-participation of Things
Is ecological democracy possible? If so, what would it entail? This chapter first reviews the literature based in deliberative democracy that proposes to extend communicative competence to non-humans, and then traces an alternative constructivist line of environmental political thinking from its beginnings in the strand of science and technology studies pioneered by Bruno Latour and others known as actor-network theory, through two actor-network …
Human Nature, Non-human Nature, and Needs
This chapter assesses the relevance of Frankfurt School critical theory for contemporary environmental political theory. Early Frankfurt School thinkers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, and Marcuse developed a critique of instrumental rationality that provides a powerful framework for understanding the domination of nature in modernity, including an inability to articulate and defend human needs. Habermas subsequently attempts to mitigate this totaliz…
Capital, Environmental Degradation, and Economic Externalization
Neo-liberal principles of individualism, privatization, consumption, and unconstrained choice underpinning advanced capitalism are rapidly becoming the predominant strategy used in response to widespread environmental degradation and climate change. This essay describes and analyzes capital’s production of negative environmental externalities. Despite a slew of environmental legislation passed by governments the world over—a response to the deman…
Challenging the Human X Environment Framework
Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and opportunities for understanding and organizing an environmental politics able to transform environmental degradation and address global climate change. This essay explains how arguments about human embodiment, symbiosis, and human embeddedness in social and material habitats have led to a reconceptualization of the human as well as the environment. Next, …
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory
Set at the intersection of political theory and environmental politics, yet with broad engagement across the environmental social sciences and humanities, this Handbook illustrates, defines, and challenges the field of environmental political theory (EPT). Authors address canonical theorists and contemporary political and environmental problems with a diversity of theoretical approaches. The initial section focuses on EPT as a field of inquiry wi…
Cultivating Human and Non-human Capabilities for Mutual Flourishing
The commitment to human flourishing in various traditions of political thought has been an important bridge between anthropocentrically conceived political theory and the more encompassing concerns of biocentrism and eco-centrism in environmental political theory. This chapter explores how this commitment has been developed and applied by scholars drawing on the theory of human capabilities—or “capabilities theory”—to imagine and construct an env…
Culture and Difference
Can non-Western traditions offer the West intellectual resources to re-conceptualize the human–nature relationship, and transform our ethical relationship to the natural world? This essay argues that there have been two kinds of approaches to this question: first, an almost purely ethical approach that is termed “civilizational,” which follows the logic inherent in biocentric critiques of Western anthropocentrism and instrumentalism; and second, …
Political Economy of the Greening of the State
Two different general claims have been made about large-scale political transformations produced by responses to environmental change. One is the claim that we are witnessing the potential emergence of a “green state,” where states internalize an ecological function as a core state imperative. Another is that we are undergoing a transition to an “environmental state.” The former claim thus envisages a radical transformation and its theory of the …
Global Environmental Justice and the Environmentalism of the Poor
There are an increasing number of ecological distribution conflicts around the world ultimately caused from the increase in the metabolism of the economy in terms of flows of energy and materials. There are resource extraction conflicts, transport conflicts, and also waste disposal conflicts. Therefore, there are many local complaints. Since the 1980s and 1990s there has been a globalizing environmental justice movement that in its strategy meeti…
Environmental Justice and the Anthropocene Meme
This essay examines the adoption of and the indifference to the term “Anthropocene” in diverse discourses addressing the urgency of climate change in the early twenty-first century. Through an analysis of keynote speeches, this essay argues that Anthropocene—a storytelling device invoking a pan-human species responsibility for the current climate crisis—is deployed widely within Euro-Australo-American academic environmental studies and environmen…
Sustainability— Post-sustainability— Unsustainability
Sustainability and sustainable development have become hegemonic frames shaping the ways in which national governments and international bodies conceptualize eco-political issues and devise related policy agendas. Yet, a consensus is emerging that this mainstream approach is unable to deliver the kind of structural change that is required if serious social conflicts and ecological collapse are to be prevented. This contribution explores why the p…
Responsibility for Climate Change as a Structural Injustice
This chapter critically explores the political and moral challenges involved in understanding the harms of climate change as the product of structural injustices with a specific focus on political responsibility. The chapter stages a critical encounter between Iris Marion Young's account of political responsibility, and the debate among climate justice theorists on how to assign responsibility for mitigation and adaptation to citizens and states.…
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