Green Politics and Neo-Liberalism

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Discourse, Power and Environmental Policy......Page 18
Foucault on power......Page 22
Discursive transformation......Page 24
The shifting self-interests of US CFC producers and consumers......Page 28
De-centred power is not enough......Page 30
Transport and power......Page 33
Alternative energy and power......Page 39
Truth and knowledge about US nuclear power......Page 45
2 Rational Choice Theory and Environmental Policy......Page 48
The fall of classic rational choice......Page 49
RCT and \'soft\' incentives......Page 54
Ostrom\'s institutional RCT......Page 57
Belief systems, norms and self-interest......Page 60
RCT and new international environmental problems......Page 64
3 Science, Politics and Environmentalists......Page 71
In the shadow of the bomb......Page 73
From the scientisation of politics to the politicisation of science......Page 75
Scientists and environmental groups......Page 77
Saving the whale......Page 79
CFCs and ozone depletion......Page 81
Beyond positivism......Page 83
Blurred roles......Page 85
4 Neo-liberalism and Green Politics......Page 88
Public choice and market theory......Page 89
The norms of public choice......Page 91
Middle classes and material self-interest......Page 94
Interpreting self-interest......Page 95
Can green politics reinterpret self-interest?......Page 98
5 Health and Materialism......Page 105
Inequalities, health and social malaise......Page 107
Stress health and work......Page 111
Status and the competitive society......Page 115
Competition and consumption......Page 118
The consequences of too much competition......Page 119
The new discourse of stress at work......Page 121
6 The Politics of Performance......Page 126
Education, competition and performance......Page 131
Does increasing competition in education work?......Page 133
School league tables......Page 136
Co-operative solutions......Page 139
A culture of stress......Page 142
Holistic approaches to society......Page 145
Greens and socialism......Page 147
Gorz\'s green socialism – a path to paradise?......Page 149
The shape of future work......Page 154
Reforming work......Page 157
Paths to holism: eastern and western......Page 160
Paths to \'downshifting\'......Page 162
Greens and urban regeneration[sup(3)]......Page 167
8 Truth, Technology and Progress......Page 172
Epistemology and ontology......Page 174
The notion of \'species realism\'......Page 175
Human truths and environmental progress......Page 179
Postmodernism and environmental practice......Page 181
Technology and progress......Page 186
Technology and risk......Page 189
Three ages of control......Page 193
Discourse and truth......Page 197
Social green strategies......Page 198
Reconstituting self-interest......Page 200
Rational choice and self-interest......Page 201
Correcting foucault......Page 202
Notes......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 206
C......Page 218
D......Page 219
E......Page 220
H......Page 221
M......Page 222
P......Page 223
R......Page 224
T......Page 225
Z......Page 226