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Author:
Bowers, Tom, author.
Title:
Environmentalism and contemporary heterotopia : novel encounters with waste / Tom Bowers.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
v, 173 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Environmental protection--Citizen participation.
Pollution--Philosophy.
Pollution--Moral and ethical aspects.
Incongruity.
Factory and trade waste--Government policy--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The ethics of agency in a dirty world. The potential of dissonance and heterotopia -- Beyond sustainability : relationality, uncertainty, and the responsible posthuman environmental public -- Reorientations to risk -- The ethics of agency in a dirty world.
Summary:
"Examining spaces where leisure activities are offered on sites of industrial waste, this book argues that such heterotopic spaces may foster a remaking of public environmental responsibility and ecological care that is not based on a utopian vision of environmental purity but an attempt to exist responsibly in the continued presence of waste"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1793622973
9781793622976
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1302577929
LCCN:
2022006410
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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