George A Gonzalez
Biographic Data
| ID | 460654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George A Gonzalez |
| GIVEN NAMES | George A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gonzalez |
| SIGNATURE | GONZALEZ G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0513-2278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Popular Culture As Art and Knowledge: A Critique of Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democracy
This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy. It turns to art, more specifically popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy. Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines holds that reason in the world metaphysically exists. Reasons of the world are reasons of the Hegelian Absolute. Thus, similar to the fact that gravity is…
Chapter One. Deconstruction versus Reason in the World
Justice and Popular Culture: Star Trek as Philosophical Text
This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the environment…
The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future
The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in
Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future
Is Obama's 2014 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan Symbolic? The Creation of the US EPA and a Reliance on the States
In 2014, the US Barack Obama Presidential Administration announced a plan to directly address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions from the country's fleet of power plants, about 600 of which ar
The US Politics of Water Pollution Policy: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and the Vending of Technology
Consistent with the pluralist theory of policymaking, whose proponents emphasize interest group competition in the formation of public policy (Dahl 1961; Kamieniecki 2006), researchers generally ar
The Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Wilderness Preservation Policy Network
The U.S. Wilderness Act of 1964 is viewed as the result of pluralist politics,1 with a coalition of environmental groups taking the political lead in the formation and enactment of this legislation
The future of the planet: Technology, climate change, and oil depletion
The Triumph of Technology: The BBC Reith Lectures 2005 by Alec Broers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 119. $17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 5216 7965 6 The Science and Politics of
An Eco-Marxist analysis of oil depletion via urban sprawl
The United States' urban zones are the most sprawled in the world. Urban sprawl in the US substantially contributes to global oil depletion and to the global warming phenomenon. In this article the author demonstrates that urban sprawl can only be fully comprehended within the political economy framework developed by Karl Marx. Marx concepts of value and rent are indispensable to understanding the profligate use of fossil fuels vis-à-vis urban sp…
The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion (Suny Series in Global Environmental Policy)
"Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental groups, but rather locally oriented economic elites in conjunction with state and local governments. These local growth coalitions, composed of mostly large landholders, land developers, and the owners of regional media and ut…
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Environmental or Economic Sustainability
In 2000 the U.S. Congress authorized the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). At an estimated cost of $7.8 billion, it represents the most ambitious effort in recent U.S. history to reform a water management infrastructure. This infrastructure is located in South Florida and controls water in the Everglades. As the title of this plan indicates, the effort to reform this water manipulation system is being promoted as a means to restor…
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Modernisation
The diffusion of urban development results in higher emissions of global warming gases, especially carbon dioxide, because urban sprawl results in higher energy use in transportation and the heating and cooling of spacious homes on the urban periphery. The techniques and politics underlying the diffuse urban form were pioneered in the United States in the late nineteenth century, where landowners and developers sought to use mechanised forms of t…
Urban Growth and the Politics of Air Pollution: The Establishment of California's Automobile Emission Standards
The state of California has been the nation's leader in the formulation of automobile emission standards. Given that California is at the center of policymaking in the U.S. with regard to automobile emission standards, this study analyzes the factors that have historically shaped the formulation of California's standards. Policy analysis in this area, to explain the development of the state's pollution abatement policies, largely concentrate on t…
I, Too, Am State-Sensitive: A Response to Christopher Klyza
I would like to thank the editors of this journal for providing this venue and thus allowing this exchange between myself and Prof. Klyza to take place. Moreover, I would like to thank Prof. Klyza for his thoughtful rejoinder. Nevertheless, and not surprisingly, I disagree with his interpretation of my work. More importantly, however, I disagree with Prof. Klyza's interpretation of his own work as well as with his interpretation of the state-cent…
Ideas and State Capacity, or Business Dominance? A Historical Analysis of Grazing on the Public Grasslands
State-centered theorists have forwarded the argument that the role of ideas and state capacity in the formulation of public policies is evidence of an autonomous polity. These theorists hold that state capacity and ideas have an autonomous and independent role in determining state behavior and public policy development. Reflective of this, statist Christopher Klyza posits ideas and state capacity as the primary factors in the development of the p…
Democratic Ethics and Ecological Modernization: The Formulation of California’s Automobile Emission Standards
The state of California is the force leading the nation’s automobile emission standards. Environmental groups working on clean air policies, however, have been co-opted by the state agency responsible for setting the state’s automobile emission standards, the California Air Resources Board, and the automobile and oil industries. This has been done primarily by controlling the nature of the discourse surrounding the public debate on how to improve…
The Conservation Policy Network, 1890-1910: The Development and Implementation of "Practical" Forestry
The economic elite theory of American politics offers a better understanding of the development of the U.S. Forest Service, and its precursors, than the more recent state autonomy theory. During the Progressive Era a policy network composed of individuals from the upper class and the corporate community imported European forestry ideas into the United States and transformed them into "practical forestry," an approach emphasizing the profitable ha…
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Modernisation
The diffusion of urban development results in higher emissions of global warming gases, especially carbon dioxide, because urban sprawl results in higher energy use in transportation and the heating and cooling of spacious homes on the urban periphery. The techniques and politics underlying the diffuse urban form were pioneered in the United States in the late nineteenth century, where landowners and developers sought to use mechanised forms of t…
Ideas and State Capacity, or Business Dominance? A Historical Analysis of Grazing on the Public Grasslands
State-centered theorists have forwarded the argument that the role of ideas and state capacity in the formulation of public policies is evidence of an autonomous polity. These theorists hold that state capacity and ideas have an autonomous and independent role in determining state behavior and public policy development. Reflective of this, statist Christopher Klyza posits ideas and state capacity as the primary factors in the development of the p…
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Environmental or Economic Sustainability
In 2000 the U.S. Congress authorized the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). At an estimated cost of $7.8 billion, it represents the most ambitious effort in recent U.S. history to reform a water management infrastructure. This infrastructure is located in South Florida and controls water in the Everglades. As the title of this plan indicates, the effort to reform this water manipulation system is being promoted as a means to restor…
The Conservation Policy Network, 1890-1910: The Development and Implementation of "Practical" Forestry
The economic elite theory of American politics offers a better understanding of the development of the U.S. Forest Service, and its precursors, than the more recent state autonomy theory. During the Progressive Era a policy network composed of individuals from the upper class and the corporate community imported European forestry ideas into the United States and transformed them into "practical forestry," an approach emphasizing the profitable ha…
The US Politics of Water Pollution Policy: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and the Vending of Technology
Consistent with the pluralist theory of policymaking, whose proponents emphasize interest group competition in the formation of public policy (Dahl 1961; Kamieniecki 2006), researchers generally ar
An Eco-Marxist analysis of oil depletion via urban sprawl
The United States' urban zones are the most sprawled in the world. Urban sprawl in the US substantially contributes to global oil depletion and to the global warming phenomenon. In this article the author demonstrates that urban sprawl can only be fully comprehended within the political economy framework developed by Karl Marx. Marx concepts of value and rent are indispensable to understanding the profligate use of fossil fuels vis-à-vis urban sp…
The future of the planet: Technology, climate change, and oil depletion
The Triumph of Technology: The BBC Reith Lectures 2005 by Alec Broers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 119. $17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 5216 7965 6 The Science and Politics of
Urban Growth and the Politics of Air Pollution: The Establishment of California's Automobile Emission Standards
The state of California has been the nation's leader in the formulation of automobile emission standards. Given that California is at the center of policymaking in the U.S. with regard to automobile emission standards, this study analyzes the factors that have historically shaped the formulation of California's standards. Policy analysis in this area, to explain the development of the state's pollution abatement policies, largely concentrate on t…
The Conservation Policy Network, 1890-1910: The Development and Implementation of "Practical" Forestry
The economic elite theory of American politics offers a better understanding of the development of the U.S. Forest Service, and its precursors, than the more recent state autonomy theory. During the Progressive Era a policy network composed of individuals from the upper class and the corporate community imported European forestry ideas into the United States and transformed them into "practical forestry," an approach emphasizing the profitable ha…
I, Too, Am State-Sensitive: A Response to Christopher Klyza
I would like to thank the editors of this journal for providing this venue and thus allowing this exchange between myself and Prof. Klyza to take place. Moreover, I would like to thank Prof. Klyza for his thoughtful rejoinder. Nevertheless, and not surprisingly, I disagree with his interpretation of my work. More importantly, however, I disagree with Prof. Klyza's interpretation of his own work as well as with his interpretation of the state-cent…
Ideas and State Capacity, or Business Dominance? A Historical Analysis of Grazing on the Public Grasslands
State-centered theorists have forwarded the argument that the role of ideas and state capacity in the formulation of public policies is evidence of an autonomous polity. These theorists hold that state capacity and ideas have an autonomous and independent role in determining state behavior and public policy development. Reflective of this, statist Christopher Klyza posits ideas and state capacity as the primary factors in the development of the p…
Democratic Ethics and Ecological Modernization: The Formulation of California’s Automobile Emission Standards
The state of California is the force leading the nation’s automobile emission standards. Environmental groups working on clean air policies, however, have been co-opted by the state agency responsible for setting the state’s automobile emission standards, the California Air Resources Board, and the automobile and oil industries. This has been done primarily by controlling the nature of the discourse surrounding the public debate on how to improve…
Urban Growth and the Politics of Air Pollution: The Establishment of California's Automobile Emission Standards
The state of California has been the nation's leader in the formulation of automobile emission standards. Given that California is at the center of policymaking in the U.S. with regard to automobile emission standards, this study analyzes the factors that have historically shaped the formulation of California's standards. Policy analysis in this area, to explain the development of the state's pollution abatement policies, largely concentrate on t…
The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion (Suny Series in Global Environmental Policy)
"Who has been at the political forefront of clean air policy development in the United States? In The Politics of Air Pollution, George A. Gonzalez argues that the answer is neither the federal government, nor environmental groups, but rather locally oriented economic elites in conjunction with state and local governments. These local growth coalitions, composed of mostly large landholders, land developers, and the owners of regional media and ut…
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Environmental or Economic Sustainability
In 2000 the U.S. Congress authorized the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). At an estimated cost of $7.8 billion, it represents the most ambitious effort in recent U.S. history to reform a water management infrastructure. This infrastructure is located in South Florida and controls water in the Everglades. As the title of this plan indicates, the effort to reform this water manipulation system is being promoted as a means to restor…
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Modernisation
The diffusion of urban development results in higher emissions of global warming gases, especially carbon dioxide, because urban sprawl results in higher energy use in transportation and the heating and cooling of spacious homes on the urban periphery. The techniques and politics underlying the diffuse urban form were pioneered in the United States in the late nineteenth century, where landowners and developers sought to use mechanised forms of t…
An Eco-Marxist analysis of oil depletion via urban sprawl
The United States' urban zones are the most sprawled in the world. Urban sprawl in the US substantially contributes to global oil depletion and to the global warming phenomenon. In this article the author demonstrates that urban sprawl can only be fully comprehended within the political economy framework developed by Karl Marx. Marx concepts of value and rent are indispensable to understanding the profligate use of fossil fuels vis-à-vis urban sp…
The future of the planet: Technology, climate change, and oil depletion
The Triumph of Technology: The BBC Reith Lectures 2005 by Alec Broers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 119. $17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 5216 7965 6 The Science and Politics of
The Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Wilderness Preservation Policy Network
The U.S. Wilderness Act of 1964 is viewed as the result of pluralist politics,1 with a coalition of environmental groups taking the political lead in the formation and enactment of this legislation
The US Politics of Water Pollution Policy: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and the Vending of Technology
Consistent with the pluralist theory of policymaking, whose proponents emphasize interest group competition in the formation of public policy (Dahl 1961; Kamieniecki 2006), researchers generally ar
The Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future
The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in
Politics of Star Trek: Justice, War, and the Future
Is Obama's 2014 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan Symbolic? The Creation of the US EPA and a Reliance on the States
In 2014, the US Barack Obama Presidential Administration announced a plan to directly address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions from the country's fleet of power plants, about 600 of which ar
Popular Culture As Art and Knowledge: A Critique of Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democracy
This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy. It turns to art, more specifically popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy. Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines holds that reason in the world metaphysically exists. Reasons of the world are reasons of the Hegelian Absolute. Thus, similar to the fact that gravity is…
Chapter One. Deconstruction versus Reason in the World
Justice and Popular Culture: Star Trek as Philosophical Text
This book examines how the Star Trek franchise does more than reflect and depict the political currents of the times. Gonzalez argues that Star Trek also presents an argument as to what constitutes a just, stable, thriving society. By analyzing Star Trek, this book argues that in order to obtain true democracy and justice the productive forces of society must be geared toward achieving a thriving society, the whole individual, and the environment…
Political science (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)