Metanarrative and the Environment
A Story of Morality, Agency, and Governance
Series: Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 13 April 2025
- ISBN 9781032647050
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 260 g
- Language English 645
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Short description:
To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions, climate change and more. In Metanarrative and the Environment, Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a new metanarrative.
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To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour. However, all such efforts to manually correct the course of history have been dwarfed by the magnitude and heavy forward momentum of modern industrial society. In Metanarrative and the Environment, Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a legitimating discourse – a new metanarrative – which fundamentally changes the ideational landscape of human development. Dr. Purdey begins in Part I by establishing the pragmatics of our environmental predicament – its roots and responses to it. He focuses on the concept, definition, and key features of metanarrative, introducing the hegemonic story that now rules the contemporary global mindscape. Part II takes on the moral problematic more directly, encouraging the evolution of a new metanarrative by bringing our potential for agency in the face of danger into sharper relief. Metanarrative and the Environment is multidisciplinary, with a particular emphasis on the creative humanities. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as environmental activists and academics looking for a new way forward.
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Part I
The Scope and Impact of Metanarrative
Chapter 1: Metanarrative: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Narrative Protocol and the Moral Turn
Chapter 3: Global Governance in Contemporary Culture
Chapter 4: The Story of Progress and Prosperity
Chapter 5: The Folly of Growth and the New Metanarrative
Part II
Morality and Agency
Chapter 6: An Introduction to Dualism, Monism, and the Problem of Reconciliation
Chapter 7: The Material and Transcendent Worlds
Chapter 8: The New Metanarrative: Some Ontological Considerations
Chapter 9: Agency and the Evolution of Metanarrative
Chapter 10: The End and the Beginning
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