Description: A study of the key discursive moves in environmentalist discourses that perpetuate social inequality, offering an alternative socioecological approach to avoid these pitfalls.
Brief description: Scott Burnett is Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA and a research affiliate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of White belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Lexington, 2022).
Review Quotes: Scott Burnett's highly readable and powerful new book paves the way for further integrating critical discourse studies and political ecology. The robust conversations he envisages between these fields are not only vital to understanding our harrowing planetary socio-ecological condition but in fact necessary to kindle what he calls 'critical hope'.
Bram Büscher, Wageningen University, the Netherlands