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Article Excerpt
Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond
by Andrew Biro, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2005, xiii + 230 pp., cloth $60.00 (ISBN 08020-8022-7), paper $24.95 (ISBN 08020-3794-1)
There is a certain irony, not completely lost on environmentalists, that at the very moment when the political significance of ecology seems almost indisputable, so many social theorists seem intent on denaturalizing ecological politics. Although, as recent debates about the 'social construction' of nature show, this 'denaturalization' takes very different forms, many, as in Bruno Latour's recent Politics of Nature (2004: 9), call on environmentalists to 'let go of nature'.
Quite what this means is difficult to determine, but it is certainly intended to shift attention away from an idea (or in Biro's terms, an ideology) of nature as something 'out there' needing to be saved, appreciated or conserved. Indeed, it is precisely such an idea/ideology of a 'nature' transcending...
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