Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Author | : Alex Latta |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857457486 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857457489 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.