Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 2
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Methods
- 1 Re-compos(t)ing the Ghosts of Sociologies Past: Towards More Cosmoecological Sociologies
- 2 On Discourse-Intensive Approaches to Environmental Decision-Making: Applying Social Theory to Practice
- 3 Community-Based Research
- 4 Using Geographic Data in Environmental Sociology
- Part II Embodied Environmental Sociology
- Part III Beyond the Human
- Part IV Sustainability and Climate Change
- Part V Resources
- Part VI Food and Agriculture
- Part VII Social Movements
- Index
- References
1 - Re-compos(t)ing the Ghosts of Sociologies Past: Towards More Cosmoecological Sociologies
from Part I - Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology Volume 2
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Methods
- 1 Re-compos(t)ing the Ghosts of Sociologies Past: Towards More Cosmoecological Sociologies
- 2 On Discourse-Intensive Approaches to Environmental Decision-Making: Applying Social Theory to Practice
- 3 Community-Based Research
- 4 Using Geographic Data in Environmental Sociology
- Part II Embodied Environmental Sociology
- Part III Beyond the Human
- Part IV Sustainability and Climate Change
- Part V Resources
- Part VI Food and Agriculture
- Part VII Social Movements
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter asks whether, given current environmental challenges, is it perverse of feminist environmental sociologists to seem to abandon the sociological ancestors and appeal instead to mushrooms, to call for making kin with other critters, to turn to telling different stories or to compos(t)ing ourselves differently as humans? We argued that not only is it not perverse it is urgently needed. We argue, however, that such a re-composting needed a serious engagement with the sociological traditions of understanding the roles of institutional arrangements and power, including political economic and discursive. We also consider the shadow side of framing humanity as the villain of climate change and argue sociological analysis has an indispensable role to play in disrupting the troubling potential for authoritarian and repressive politics in much of climate change discourse.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology , pp. 11 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020