Bioregionalism and civil society : democratic challenges to corporate globalism
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Bibliographic Information
Bioregionalism and civil society : democratic challenges to corporate globalism
(Sustainability and the environment, 9)
UBC Press, c2004
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-315) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Bioregionalism and Civil Society addresses the urgent need forsustainability in industrialized societies. It explores the bioregionalmovement in the US, Canada, and Mexico, examining its vision, values,strategies, and tools for building sustainablesocieties. Practically, Mike Carr argues for bioregionalism as aplace-specific, community movement that can stand in diverse oppositionto the homogenizing trends of corporate globalization. Theoretically,the author seeks lessons for civil society-based social theory andstrategy. Carr's argument that bioregional values andcommunity-building tools support a diverse, democratic, socially justcivil society that respects the natural world makes a significantcontribution to the fields of green political science, social changetheory, and environmental thought.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Corporate Globalism, Civil Society, andBioregionalism
1. Civil Society against Consumerism
2. Ecocentric Social Capital: The Ecology of Kinship
3. Bioregional Vision and Values
4. Bioregional Strategy and Tools for Community Building
5. Narrative Accounts of Reinhabitation in Rural and UrbanSettings
6. Continental Movement: A Narrative Account of the ContinentalBioregional Story
7. Conclusion: Civil Society Theory, Bioregionalism, and GlobalOrder
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