Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue and Progress (SAGE Politics Texts series) Book

Rethinking Green Politics offers a wide-ranging overview and critical analysis of the theoretical framework that underpins the values, principles and concerns of contemporary green politics and the appropriate institutional means for realizing green ends. In challenging the ecocentric and anarchistic traits of much green political ideology, John Barry argues for a new theory-based conceptualization of green moral and political theory and practice. He develops an immanent critique of `deep' and `shallow' green thought, ecologism and environmentalism, and in this way reconstructs green political theory. Explaining and examining existing models of thinking and providing new insights, this text will be essential reading for all students of green and environmental politics who wish to develop a deeper understanding of green political theory and to consider the possibility of a green and sustainable democratic society.Read More