An Invitation to Environmental Sociology - Couverture souple

Bell, Michael Mayerfeld; Ashwood, Loka L.; Leslie, Isaac; Schlachter, Laura Hanson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1506366015 ISBN 13 : 9781506366012

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2020

Synopsis

If there were ever a time for environmental sociology, it is now. As COVID-19 is spreading across our communities, our countries, our world, we have all become too familiar with maintaining that awful term of “social distance.” Yet there can be no true distance from that which is always with us and within us: our social ecology

An Invitation to Environmental Sociology invites you to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, the authors cover a broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts. The book's unique organization explores three different kinds of questions about interactions between humans and the natural world: the material, the ideal, and the practical. The Sixth Edition of this bestseller comprises 12 chapters instead of 13, making it easier to fit into the normal rhythm of a course. But the result is also an edition that is up-to-date and enriched with much newer material, while continuing to use an inviting tone that the title promises.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Isaac Sohn Leslie is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Ike’s primary research area is the sociology of global environmental and economic change, with a focus on developing food systems for a just climate transition. Their research in the U.S. and Argentina centers queer, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives on designing food chains that prioritize healthy ecological and social relations. Ike recently co-edited a Special Issue of Society & Natural Resources on gender, sexuality, and sustainability in U.S. farming. They are also a beginning farmer and active in queer farmer organizing. For more, visit www.isaacleslie.com.

 

Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For his day job, he is principally an environmental sociologist and a social theorist, focusing on dialogics, the sociology of nature, and social justice. These concerns for the world have led him to studies of agroecology, the body, community, consumption, culture, development, food, democracy, economic sociology, gender, inequality, participation, place, politics, rurality, the sociology of music, and more. He is also a part-time composer of grassroots and classical music, and a mandolinist, guitarist, and singer.

Loka Ashwood is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Sociology. She theorizes about democracy, the environment, and social action to pinpoint points of aggravation and openings for change. She analyzes specific corporate and regulatory structures that undergird dispossession of property and community in rural places. She works with people to explore creative pathways forward amid intense distrust and government neglect. Learn more at www.lokaashwood.com.

Laura Hanson Schlachter is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her scholarship and teaching focus on environmental sociology, social movements, and economic sociology. As a mixed methods researcher, Laura has directed the first national survey about workplace democracy, interviewed activists seeding a regenerative economy in Appalachia, and collaborated with village leaders to improve walkability in rural Wisconsin. Laura has a background in inclusive economic development and an ongoing volunteer role at the Madison affiliate of 350.org. Her writing has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals, policy reports, and neighborhood newsletters. Her current research about constructive strategies to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis and alternative ways of organizing work has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation and Corporation for National and Community Service. Learn more at www.lauraschlachter.com.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

An Invitation to Environmental Sociology invites students to delve into this rapidly changing field. Written in a lively, engaging style, the authors cover a broad range of topics in environmental sociology with a personal passion rarely seen in sociology texts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1506366015
• ISBN 13: 9781506366012
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 6
• Nombre de pages: 489
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible