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Beyond sovereign territory : the space of ecopolitics
- Title
- Beyond sovereign territory : the space of ecopolitics / Thom Kuehls.
- Author
- Kuehls, Thom.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1996]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 168 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- How should we think about politics in a world where ecological problems - from the deforestation of the Amazon to acid rain - transcend national boundaries? This is the timely and important question addressed by Thom Kuehls in Beyond Sovereign Territory. Contending that the sovereign territorial state is not adequate to contain or describe the boundaries of ecopolitics, the author reorients our thinking about government, nature, and politics.
- Kuehls argues that changes in technology and the scope of governmental aims have rendered conventional ecological and internationalist aims anachronistic - and ultimately ineffective - in the face of impending environmental collapse. He questions the process by which land is transformed into an object of sovereignty - into "territory"--Demonstrating how representations of political space that are premised on territorial sovereignty fail to come to terms with much of what is involved in ecopolitics. Ultimately, Kuehls critiques an orientation that privileges a certain utilitarian relationship between humans and nonhuman nature, one in which the earth is largely interpreted as given to humans. Deeply humanistic and challenging conventional wisdom, Beyond Sovereign Territory will be of interest to readers of environmental politics, geography, international politics, and political theory.
- Series Statement
- Borderlines ; v. 4
- Uniform Title
- Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 4.
- Alternative Title
- Beyond sovereign territory
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-164) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Brazil -- 1. Natures, Ethics, and Ecologies -- 2. Exploring the Space of the (Inter)State (I): Sovereignty -- 3. Exploring the Space of the (Inter)State(II): Governmentality -- 4. Theories of Ecopolitics: Machines, Organisms, Cyborgs -- 5. Brazil of the North.
- ISBN
- 0816624674
- 9780816624676
- 0816624682
- 9780816624683
- LCCN
- 95031240
- OCLC
- ocm32922812
- 32922812
- SCSB-2085637
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library