Description:
"An indispensable and timely collection which confronts the core questions at the multi-scale intersections of political ecology and political economy today." - Roger Keil, York University
Brief description:
Josée Johnston works in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her major area of research is the sociology of food and her work brings together several research threads including globalization, political ecology, consumerism, and critical theory.
Review Quotes:
Nature's Revenge expertly confronts the depredation of nature that we call the ecological crisis, covering a great range of issues with a rigorous and hopeful eye. Its essays provide an unusually fine combination of concreteness, practicality, and theoretical sophistication.
--Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature and the editor of Capitalism, Nature, SocialismNature's Revenge achieves something that is increasingly rare in academic books: an incisive critique of modern society that is both highly relevant and readily accessible to a wide audience. It offers insight into the social and political causes of environmental decline and provides inspiration and strategic direction for those interested in affecting change. Nature's Revenge will stimulate and invigorate anyone who cares about the future of our world.
--Sharon Beder, University of Wollongong, New South WalesAn indispensable and timely collection which confronts the core questions at the multi-scale intersections of political ecology and political economy today.
--Roger Keil, York University, author (with Gene Desfor) of Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles