{"product_id":"green-utopias-environmental-hope-before-and-after-nature-hardback-9780745684734","title":"Green Utopias; Environmental Hope Before and After Nature (Hardback) 9780745684734","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGreen Utopias\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnvironmental Hope Before and After Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa Garforth (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745684734, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 October 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This subtle, lucid and measured account charts the changing and conflicting discourses of limits, sustainability, wildness, adaptation and apocalypse. With clarity and care, Lisa Garforth's distinctive use of social theory explains and counters the difficulty of thinking (beyond) crisis and the importance of the utopian lens in exploring possible futures.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRuth Levitas, University of Bristol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGreen Utopias\u003c\/i\u003e moves from the romantic eco-utopian interventions of the 1960s infused by hope for a redeemable nature to the realistic, yet stubbornly utopian, manoeuvres of the Anthropocene. Garforth articulates a utopian method informed by 'green hope' that 'unsettles' capitalist hegemony and enables humanity to live creatively with 'multiple ecologies and nonhuman others.' This is essential reading for all citizens of the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTom Moylan, University of Limerick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The conclusion intriguingly chooses not to choose between the various ecotopian possibilities that have been sketched out in the monograph, not even between the 'before' and 'after' nature of the title; instead, Garforth argues, we must 'greet the Anthropocene' with a multitude of strategies ranging from hope and fear to apocalypse and adaptation. [...] In such dire times, the thinking goes, we should welcome any sort of utopian hope we can muster.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience Fiction Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvironmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreen Utopias\u003c\/i\u003e explores these ideas of environmental hope in the post-war period, from the environmental crisis to the end of nature. Using a broad definition of Utopia as it exists in Western policy, theory and literature, Lisa Garforth explains how its developing entanglement with popular culture and mainstream politics has shaped successive green future visions and initiatives. In the face of apocalyptic, despairing or indifferent responses to contemporary ecological dilemmas, utopias and the utopian method seem more necessary than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis distinctive reading of green political thought and culture will appeal across the social sciences and humanities to all interested in why green utopias continue to matter in the cultivation of ecological values and the emergence of new forms of human and non-human well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduction: utopia, environment and nature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEnvironmentalism: from crisis to hope\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDeep ecology: wild nature, radical visions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUtopian fiction: imagining the sustainable society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNo future: green utopias between apocalypse and adaptation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAfter nature: ecological utopianism from limits to loss\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConclusion: long live the green utopia?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407337222424,"sku":"9780745684734","price":42.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745684734.jpg?v=1784163239","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/green-utopias-environmental-hope-before-and-after-nature-hardback-9780745684734","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}