Using a framework that accounts for the ontologies, material conditions, and power relations that structure global environmental problems, Lipschutz is able to more effectively question attempts to clean up the globe and sustain the world′s natural resources. Throughout the text, the author uses compelling cases to illustrate the effects of globalization and capitalism, yet is careful to make the link between the local and the global to show how we, as individuals, are both consumers of goods and producers of pollution.
A powerful new approach
Combined with practical pedagogy
Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses on foreign policy, international politics, global environmental politics, ecological philosophy, and Cold War film and fiction. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies at UCSC and Chair of the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Lipschutz has degrees in physics from the University of Texas-Austin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at U.C. Berkeley. Lipschutz is the author of, most recently, Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance--The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet (SUNY Press, 1996), After Authority--War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century (SUNY Press, 2000), and Film, Fiction, and the Cold War: Popular Culture and Foreign Policy During America′s Half-Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001). He is editor of On Security (Columbia, 1995), co-editor (with Ken Conca) of The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics (Columbia, 1993), and co-editor (with Beverly Crawford) of The Myth of "Ethnic Conflict"--Politics, Economics, and "Cultural" Violence (International and Area Studies, UC-Berkeley, 1998).