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Changing our Environment, Changing Ourselves

Nature, Labour, Knowledge and Alienation

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Editors:
  1. James S. Ormrod

    1. School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton School of Applied Social Science, Brighton, United Kingdom

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves

    • James S. Ormrod
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Work of Peter Dickens

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Peter Dickens: Late Capitalism, Nature, and Mental Life

      • Ted Benton
      Pages 15-35

    3. Defragmenting Nature: Themes in Peter Dickens’s Work

      • James S. Ormrod
      Pages 37-78

  4. Philosophical and Theoretical Debates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Environmental Alienation

      • Kate Soper
      Pages 81-99

    3. Marx’s Universal Metabolism of Nature and the Frankfurt School: Dialectical Contradictions and Critical Syntheses

      • John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark
      Pages 101-135

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 289-315
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About this book

In this book, a celebration of the work of the sociologist Peter Dickens serves as the catalyst for exploring the relationship between human ‘internal nature’ (our health and psychological well-being) and ‘external nature’ (the environment on which we depend and which we collectively transform). Across contributions from Ted Benton, James Ormrod, Kate Soper, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, Graham Sharp, James Addicott, Kathryn Dean and Peter Dickens himself, the book draws attention to alienation associated with the promotion of different knowledges in late capitalist production. But it also highlights the possibilities for generating less alienated relations with our environment in the future. As well as discussing the philosophical and theoretical issues involved, the book contains contemporary case studies of ultra-processed food, satellite farming, computerised thinking and dark tourism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton School of Applied Social Science, Brighton, United Kingdom

    James S. Ormrod

About the editor

James S. Ormrod is a Principal Lecturer in Sociology, University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are in social movements and the relationships human beings have with their environment and the universe in general. He is the author of Fantasy and Social Movements (2014) and, with Peter Dickens, Cosmic Society (2007).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Changing our Environment, Changing Ourselves

  • Book Subtitle: Nature, Labour, Knowledge and Alienation

  • Editors: James S. Ormrod

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56991-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56990-5Published: 09 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84895-9Published: 21 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56991-2Published: 28 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 315

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Geography

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