Sociobiophysicality, Cold War, and Critical Theor y: Human-Ecological Transformation and Contemporary Ecological Subjectivity
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...Indeed, he has been advocating what he calls “ecological revolution” for the past few years (see e.g. Foster, 2005b, 2009)....
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...So although Foster’s claims that the only solution to the environment-society problematic is a socialist ecological revolution may be correct, these claims do not, however, mean that such stated goals are a possibility (see Foster, 2005b, 2009)....
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...…the same time, sociologists must be aware of the potential “unreflexivity” (more on this below) involved in championing non-Western peoples, groups, communities, and/or indigenous groups from within the modern capitalist system (for examples of this type of unreflexivity, see Foster, 2005b, 2009)....
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...262 Here I would again emphasize the importance of conceptualizing social institutions in terms of social mediation, as such a conceptualization directs our focus in relation to societal context. More specifically, this focus allows us to tune into social institutions as facilitators of scientific activity through which the domination of human and nonhuman nature is exercised. This is especially important when considering the interrelationships between institutions such as the state, corporation, and university, within and through which the activity of science takes place. As mentioned, the dissertation’s emphasis on cold war, science, and the social conception of nature, in terms of a focus on social institutions conceptualized in terms of mediation is in line with recent treadmill of destruction research, which, as indicated above, could be enhanced by the critical theoretical approach advanced here. 263 See, e.g., Gauchant, 2012; McWright, 2011; Poortinga et al., 2011. 264 See Stoner and Lybeck (2011) for an example of the contemporary relevance of Adorno et al....
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...…is supported by Fisher and Freudenburg (2004), who have shown that although the overwhelming majority of today’s top scientists agree on the need to reduce emissions, environmental protection measures in the US can be resisted by key economic actors within the nation-state (see also Münch, 2001)....
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...(See Schermer, 2008 for an empirical exemplar within the context of the EU, and Austria in particular)....
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