Bioregionalism and Civil Society - Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Bioregionalism and Civil Society addresses the urgent need for sustainability in industrialized societies. The book explores the bioregional movement in the US, Canada, and Mexico, examining its vision, values, strategies, and tools for building sustainable societies. Bioregionalism is a philosophy with values and practices that attempt to meld issues of social and economic justice and sustainability with cultural, ecological, and spiritual concerns. Further, bioregional efforts at democratic social and cultural change take place primarily in the sphere of civil society. movement that can stand in diverse opposition to the homogenizing trends of corporate globalization. Theoretically, the author seeks lessons for civil society-based social theory and strategy. Conventional civil society theory from Europe proposes a dual strategy of developing strong horizontal communicative action among civic associations and networks as the basis for strategic vertical campaigns to democratize both state and market sectors. However, this theory offers no ecological or cultural critique of consumerism. By contrast, Carr integrates both social and natural ecologies in a civil society theory that incorporates lessons about consumption and cultural transformation from bioregional practice. a diverse, democratic, socially just civil society that respects and cares for the natural world makes a significant contribution to the field of green political science, social change theory, and environmental thought.

General

Imprint:	University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Sustainability and the Environment
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	2005
Authors:	Mike Carr
Dimensions:	229 x 165mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Sewn
Pages:	344
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7748-0944-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
LSN:	0-7748-0944-2
Barcode:	9780774809443

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