Sociology of Environment - Bibliography

Dickens, Peter. 1992. Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Sociologist's critical review of Neo-Darwinian and traditional sociological contribution to the contemporary discourse on the society-nature relationship. A proposed New Ecological Paradigm' based on Marx's early writings(natural being and species being).

Evernden, Neil. 1992. The Social Creation of Nature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Discursive analysis of the western concept of nature since the Renaissance. Author challenges objective notions of "natural" ("the very language of conservation denies wildness"). Nature is defined in terms of planetary domestication. Nature needs to be liberated from the epistemic mantle of western humanism and "green chaos."

Murphy, Raymond. 1994. Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Author challenges the rationalist basis of the sociological thesis that reality and nature are social constructions and argues for an "ecosystemic sociology."

Redclift, Michael and Ted Benton (eds.). 1994. Social Theory and the Global Environment. London and New York: Routledge.
12 contributed papers by mainly British sociologists exploring the contributions of sociology to the contemporary environmental discourse.

Soule', Michael E. and Gary Lease (eds.). 1995. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction. Washington, D.C: Island Press.
Nine contributed chapters that critique the wave of postmodern relativist positions questioning key concepts of nature and wilderness in environmental sociology and philoso- phy by Paul Shepard, Albert Borgmann, Donald Worster, editor and others.

Merchant, Carolyn. (1980). Death of Nature.

Rifkin, Jeremy. (1991). Biosphere Politics: A New Consciousness for a New Century.

Bowers, C. A. (1997). The culture of denial : why the environmental movement needs a strategy for reforming universities and public schools.

Bryner, Gary C. (2001) Gaia's wager : environmental movements and the challenge of sustainability.

Jamison, Andrew. (2001) The making of green knowledge : environmental politics and cultural transformation.

Badiner, Allan Hunt. (1990). Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology.

Barth, Gunther. (1990). Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History.

Berry, Wendell. (1977). The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture.

Devall, Bill and Sessions, George. (1985). Deep Ecology.

Haraway, Donna J. (1995). Cyborgs and Symbionts: Living Together in the New World Order.

Nash, Roderick F. (1989). The Rights of Nature.

Ross, Andrew. (1994). The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society.

Romanyshyn, Robert D. (1992). Technology as Symptom and Dream.

Shepard, Paul. (1982). Nature and Madness.

Shepard, Paul. (1991). Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature.

Short, John Rennie. (1991). Imagined Country: Society, Culture and Environment.

Wilber, Ken. (1995). Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution.

William Cronon, ed. 1995. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.

Robert W. McChesney, 1997. Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy. New York: Seven Stories Press.

Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Toward a New Modernity. London, Newbury Park, and New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Selected articles on electronic reserve.

Suggested readings (environmental sociology):

John A. Hannigan. 1995. Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective. London and New York: Routledge.

Charles L. Harper. 1996. Environmental Sociology: A Human Perspective. Upper Saddle River: NJ: Prentice Hall.

Craig Humphrey and Frederick Buttel. 1982. Environment, Energy and Society. Malabor, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishers.

Riley E. Dunlap and Angela Mertig. 1992. American Environmentalism. Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis.