Course Outline -- Week 7
Wk 7 – The Environmental State
Required
Molotch, Harvey. 1976. "The City as a Growth Machine," American Journal of Sociology 64:251-61 [online] Available: <http://www.jstor.org>
Dryzek, John S., "Ecology and Discursive Democracy," pp. 176-97 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
FitzSimmons, Margaret, et al. "Environmentalism and the Liberal State," pp. 198-216 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Hay, Colin, "Environmental Security and State Legitimacy," pp. 217-31 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Gismondi, Michael and Mary Richardson, "Discourse and Power in Environmental Politics," pp. 232-52 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Demirovic, Alex, "Ecological Crisis and the Future of Democracy," pp. 253-74 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Recommended
Paehlke, Robert and Douglas Torgerson. 1990. "Environmental Politics and the Administrative State," pp. 285-299 in Paehlke and Torgerson, eds., Managing Leviathan (RR)
Szasz, Andrew. 1991. "In Praise of Policy Luddism: Strategic Lessons from the Hazardous Waste Wars," Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2(1):14-29 (RR)
Goldfrank, et al., Ecology and the World-System, selections
Wapner, Paul, "Politics Beyond the State: Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics," ch. 36 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth
Other
Jamison, Andrew, et al. 1999. "Public Engagement and Science and Technology Policy Options (PESTO). Final Report." March. [online] Available: <http://www.au.dk/~cesamat/PESTO.pdf>
- Fox and Brown, eds., Struggle for Accountability
- Harvey, Conditions of Postmodernity
Jänicke, Martin and Helge Jörgens. 1998. "National Environmental Policy Planning in OECD Countries: Preliminary Lessons from Cross-National Comparisons," Environmental Politics 7(2):27-54
last updated January 25, 2002