A01=Peter Dickens
abstract
Author_Peter Dickens
Category=JH
causal
critical
division
ecological rationality
environmental sociology
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knowledge
knowledge fragmentation
labour
lay expertise
Marxist alienation in ecology
powers
process
realism
scientific emancipation
social realism theory
technical
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- ISBN 9780415089227
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world.
He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.
Peter Dickens is Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex.
