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Rethinking the conditions of life, space and the state of the world figured prominently in the events of 1968, yet little attention is now being paid to ecological themes that arose in this influential period. Ecopolitics reassesses awareness - or non-awareness of ecological issues in the work of key French poststructural thinkers and others affected by these events. Calling into question the status of the 'subject', poststructuralism has been driven not only by feminism but by various findings, in both the social and applied sciences, that bear a strong ecological consciousness. Poststructuralism has continued to open new ways of thinking about the world and of studying concrete conditions of life. Its long-range effects are made possible by an environmental awareness that remains today at the heart of issues concerning cultural theory. Pointing first to some currently disparaging critiques of ecology in the work of Luc Ferry and Jean Baudrillard, Ecopolitics then returns to Claude Levis-Strauss' critical reading of Satre, which led the way towards ecological thinking in contemporary. Through a reading of key texts by Bateson Serres, Prigogine and Stergers, Virillo, Guattari, Cixous, Irigaray and others, Ecopolitics illustrates how by means of reassuring nature and questioning technologies, a shift away from humanism has played a key role in shaping of ecological thought. Ecopolitics will appeal to students concerned with the environment and those engages in gender and cultural studies.

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This is a book to read and reread. For not only are the insights of the author herself highly valuable . . . she also conveys, in an exciting way, and from an ecological perspective, some of the most important ideas of such thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Cixous and Irigaray.. A worthy read. - Political Geography Verena Andermatt Conley demonstrates that ecological thinking was an extremely important element in the formation of poststructuralism and she thus powerfully reorients our understanding of that innovative generation of French thought. Moreover the ecopolitics that emerge from her readings is innovative and refreshingly different from the various strands of ecological thought dominant in the Anglophone world today. -Michael Hardt, Duke University ... the attention Conley draws to the geophilosophical basis of Deleuze and Guattari's thought...is the most important feature of her book... So what ecopolitics must do, and what this book does very well, is initiate a new dialectic, one that balances capitalism and the environment, without allowing the priority generally afforded humans to dictate terms... Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought is undoubtedly deserving of a broad readership. - Ian Buchanan, University of Tasmania

This is a book to read and reread. For not only are the insights of the author herself highly valuable . . . she also conveys, in an exciting way, and from an ecological perspective, some of the most important ideas of such thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Serres, Cixous and Irigaray.. <br> A worthy read. <br>- Political Geography <br> Verena Andermatt Conley demonstrates that ecological thinking was an extremely important element in the formation of poststructuralism and she thus powerfully reorients our understanding of that innovative generation of French thought. Moreover the ecopolitics that emerge from her readings is innovative and refreshingly different from the various strands of ecological thought dominant in the Anglophone world today. <br>-Michael Hardt, Duke University <br>... the attention Conley draws to the geophilosophical basis of Deleuze and Guattari's thought...is the most important feature of her book... So what ecopolitics must do, and what this book does very well, is initiate a new dialectic, one that balances capitalism and the environment, without allowing the priority generally afforded humans to dictate terms... Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought is undoubtedly deserving of a broad readership. <br>- Ian Buchanan, University of Tasmania <br>

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