Democratic Ideals and the Politization of Nature introduces the feral citizen as a response to a perceived need to revitalize the disruptive, critical, and exploratory nature of democratic culture. By learning from the traditions of aimless walking and by embracing a consciously feral method of political engagement, radically-democratic citizens can prompt political moments that create conditions where the primacy of the political can be performed, realized and defended. Ultimately, this book seeks not to solve the problems and paradoxes of democracy but to assist in unleashing and celebrating them. Garside concludes that using the methodology of feral citizenship inspired by environmentalism and democratic articulation to reprioritize the political within the green public sphere, citizens can reclaim necessary (and welcome) tensions between representations of nature and political citizenship.

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Nick Garside is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Canada.

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Book Title: Democratic Ideals and the Politicization of Nature
Book Subtitle: The Roving Life of a Feral Citizen
Authors: Nick Garside
Series Title: Environmental Politics and Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008664
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00865-7Published: 06 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43573-9Published: 06 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00866-4Published: 31 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2731-670X
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 198
Topics: Environmental Politics, Political Science, Political Sociology, Environmental Philosophy, Earth Sciences, general, Democracy

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