Emergent themes? A year in the life of Environmental Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13084160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stewart Lockie (0000-0002-2109-6342, Federal Foreign Office, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 237-240 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2325-1042 • E-ISSN: 2325-1042 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23251042.2015.1125610 |
| OpenAlex | W2240237861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
[Extract] Attempts to summarize key themes in environmental sociology – the sorts of summaries we find in review articles, 'state of the art' handbooks and introductory texts – usually present environmental sociology as a series of debates: (1) constructivism versus materialism; (2) eco- logical modernization versus ecological realism; and (3) European versus North American sociology.1 Sometimes, these debates are explicitly mapped onto to each other – giving us something like 'constructivist European ecological modernizationists' versus 'critical American material realists'. Sometimes, this mapping is implied. Of course, any attempt to summarize a field must impose some kind of order and 'key debates' may, in principle, be as useful a way to do this as any other. No-one means to imply that environmental sociology can be split neatly down the middle, leaving two distinct paradigmatic communities fighting it out for theoretical and geopolitical supremacy. The real world, everyone will admit, is more complex, more fluid and, thankfully, more interesting. There is always room towards the end of handbooks and review essays for a section on 'the Other'– whether this Other be scholarship from outside the USA and Europe or the emergence of new theoretical or empirical concerns. It's just that some problems, places and conceptual frameworks tend to dominate scholarship and debate. Or do they
Constructivism (international relations · Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Epistemology · Historicism · International relations · Materialism · Naturalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Ecological modernization theory
The evolution of the environmental movement in Belarus
The lie of the lion
Unequal carbon exchanges
Climate governance in the post-industrial city
A typology of diversion
Climate capitalism and the global corporate elite network
A multisector alliance approach to environmental social movements
Friend or foe? Why US energy efficiency nonprofits collaborate with business and government
Tourism and the treadmill of production
Slowing the nanotechnology treadmill
Coopted environmental justice? Activists’ roles in shaping EJ policy implementation
Natural waste
Seeing and believing
The territorialization of environmental Governance. Governing the environment based on just inequalities
Energy consumption and working hours
The impacts of technology
Aiming for zero
Towards a global environmental sociology? Legacies, trends and future directions
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |