{"product_id":"everyday-environmentalism-alex-loftus-9780816665723","title":"Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryday Environmentalism\u003c\/i\u003e develops a conversation between marxist theories of everyday life and recent work in urban political ecology, arguing for a philosophy of praxis in relation to the politics of urban environments. Grounding its theoretical debate in empirical studies of struggles to obtain water in the informal settlements of Durban, South Africa, as well as in the creative acts of insurgent art activists in London, Alex Loftus builds on the work of key marxist thinkers to redefine \"environmental politics.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA marxist philosophy of praxis--that world-changing ideas emerge from the acts of everyday people--undergirds the book. Our daily reality, writes Loftus, is woven out of the entanglements of social and natural relations, and as such a kind of environmental politics is automatically incorporated into our lives. Nevertheless, one effect of the public recognition of global environmental change, asserts Loftus, has been a resurgence of dualistic understandings of the world: for example, that nature is inflicting revenge on arrogant human societies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ambitious work reformulates--with the assistance of such philosophers as Luk當s, Gramsci, Lefebvre, and others--a politics of the environment in which everyday subjectivity is at the heart of a revolutionary politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Loftus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816665729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816665723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 93","brand":"Alex Loftus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947332370687,"sku":"9780816665723","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7f6a32a9-0729-4ec8-bd6b-df2fdcd38279.jpg?v=1681518094","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/everyday-environmentalism-alex-loftus-9780816665723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}