Environmentalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22366909 |
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| Authors | Eeva Berglund (0000-0003-0269-562X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1965 |
| OpenAlex | W4241695430 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Environmentalism is concern over the impacts of human activity on the nonhuman world, as manifested in social movements, politics, and in diffuse practices like lifestyle choices. As a way of knowing (epistemology) and a moral discourse (ethics), environmentalism reworks concepts of nature and concepts of the person, both implicitly and through green literature and discourse. Environmentalism both informs and challenges powerful global institutions. Anthropologists have approached it as a worldview and as a discursive construction of nature and agency but also, through ethnographies of activism, showing that environmental problems are always culturally specific even where they are understood by those involved as planetary. In approaching environmentalism, anthropologists have often built on the long‐term and partial perspective of the ethnographic method, generating engaged and complex understandings of environmentalism as both place bound and networked, both planet centered and people centered, as a compelling and complicated contemporary phenomenon with growing political salience
Environmental ethics · Environmental sociology · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Highly cited | No |
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