..., and householding – in affluent postindustrial societies. The aim is to open up new ways of thinking about property, freedom, and citizenship that might foster a more resonant and expansive political imagination, while also modeling a distinctive approach to environmental political theory....

...This is an introduction to the volume as a whole. The editors, Peter F. Cannavò and Joseph H. Lane Jr., summarize the origins and history of environmental political theory and discuss the need for a volume like Engaging Nature and how this book goes beyond past studies...

... Carolyn Ophuls William Valls Andrew An Inconvenient Truth Gore Climate change anthropogenic Gore Albert Jr Citizenship Artifice human Nominalism Objectivity Phenomenology Thomas Hobbes De Corpore(Hobbes) Leviathan(Hobbes) environmental political theory nature and politics nominalism...

... Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft) Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Wollstonecraft) Original Stories from Real Life (Wollstonecraft) environmental political theory ecofeminism feminism animal rights environmental ethics Mary...

... Class social Arendt Hannah Technology de Certeau Michel Karl Marx Capital (Marx) “Wage Labour and Capital”(Marx) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Marx) environmental political theory Marxism capitalism commodification political economy globalization Karl Marx (1818–1883...

... Confucianism Cosmoanthropism Nature Tu Wei Ming Chan Wing Tsit Doctrine of the Mean Confucius Dualism Holism Locke John Chang Tsai Intergenerational obligation Wang Yang ming Ecocentrism Wollstonecraft Mary Confucius The Analects (Confucius) Neo-Confucianism environmental political theory...

... environmental political theory Western political thought comparative political thought anthropocentrism As the essays in this volume demonstrate, the political theory canon offers a wealth of practical and theoretical insights into the relationship between humanity or, somewhat more specifically, political...

... and environmentalism face an internal tension between communitarian values and a strong commitment to meaningful participatory politics. The author argues that greater engagement with republicanism by environmental political theory can promote a better grasp of environmentalism’s political implications and internal...

...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...

...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...

...Environmental political theory serves as an important bridge between political science and environmental ethics. Environmental ethics has traditionally focused on our duties to non-humans and expanding our conception of the moral community. But that focus on individual ethical choice limits its...

...This chapter explores relationships between democratic action research and environmental political theory. In the absence of action research pedagogies, neo-liberalism will increasingly undermine the spaces and possibilities in institutions of higher education that have been integral...

... Reason Plato The Republic (Plato) Platonic forms property environmental political theory nature and politics Thomas More Utopia (More) agriculture Whether we are compelled or repelled by Plato’s arguments for the ideal city-state and just rulership, his dialogues have driven a significant...

...) environmental political theory decentralization bioregionalism anarchism federalism civic republicanism Elinor Ostrom Centralization of wealth and power contributes to social and economic injustice, environmental destruction, and militarization. … Decision-making should, as much as possible, remain...

... On the Social Contract (Rousseau) Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (Rousseau) Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Rousseau) Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Rousseau) Emile (Rousseau) environmental political theory nature and politics modernity Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major political thinker...

... Equilibrium Lane Joseph H Jr Miller Dale Stationary state economy Agriculture Parham John Collectives and collectivity Decentralization Winch Donald Scarcity Capaldi Nicholas Preservation John Stuart Mill “Nature”(Mill) Principles of Political Economy (Mill) environmental political theory...

... Sinnott Armstrong Walter Individualism Parfit Derek Niemöller Martin Martin Heidegger Being and Time (Heidegger) “The Question Concerning Technology” (Heidegger) environmental political theory Dasein climate change micropolitics Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Virtually alone among major twentieth...

...Examines the shifting relationship between environmental political theory and the political philosophy of liberalism. Earlier writings often developed a total critique of, while more recent ones offer an increasingly nuanced engagement with, liberal theory. This turn toward liberalism echoes...

... boundaries. Subsequently, the chapter explains how such historical-comparative analysis builds upon existing positions in comparative and environmental political theory by attending to premodern traditions, including a concept (rule) that has been generally neglected. Finally, it explains how poetry...