Columbia University Press
The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism
Key Metrics
- Keith Makoto Woodhouse
- Columbia University Press
- Paperback
- 9780231165891
- 9 X 5.9 X 1.1 inches
- 1.2 pounds
- History > United States - 20th Century
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Woodhouse explores how radical environmentalism responded to both postwar affluence and a growing sense of physical limits. While radicals challenged the material and philosophical basis of industrial civilization, they glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people's different relationships to the nonhuman world. Woodhouse discusses how such views increasingly set Earth First! at odds with movements focused on social justice and examines the implications of ecocentrism's sweeping critique of human society for the future of environmental protection. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States, The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought.
Author Bio
Keith Woodhouse teaches courses for the History Department and the Environmental Policy and Culture program.
His research interests are environmental history, intellectual history, political history, and the twentieth-century United States. He is the author of The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism, which focuses on the ideas and political and philosophical commitments that radical environmentalists held and what those commitments tell us about the relationship between the environmental movement and American political thought.
He has taught at several campuses in the University of Wisconsin system and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He received his PhD from University of Wisconsin in 2010.
Source: Northwestern University - Department of History
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