Towards a deconstructive environmental criticism

Oxford Literary Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-68

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References (40)

1. Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society (London: Polity, 1999), 119
2. A list of relevant papers and books would include Avner de-Shalit, Why Posterity Matters: Environmental Policies and Future Generations (London: Routledge, 1995)
3. Ernest Partridge, ed. Responsibilities to Future Generations: Environmental Ethics (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1981)
4. Frederick E. Emery, 'Methodological Premises of Social Forecasting,' Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1974, pp. 97-115
5. Bertram Bandman, 'Do Future Generations have the Right to Breath Clean Air? A Note,' Political Theory, 10. 1 (Feb. 1982), pp. 95-102
6. Patrick Brantlinger, 'Apocalypse 2001, Or, What Happens after Posthistory?', Cultural Critique, 39 (Spring 1998), pp. 59-83
7. Lawrence E. Johnson, 'Future Generations and Contemporary Ethics', Environmental Values, 12 (2003), 471-87
8. Roy W. Perrett, 'Future Generations and the Metaphysics of the Self: Western and Indian Philosophical Perspectives,' Asian Philosophy 13 (2003), pp. 29-37
9. Jan J. Boersema, 'How to Prepare for the Unknown? On the Significance of Future Generations and Future Studies in Environmental Policy,' Environmental Values, 10 (2001), pp. 35-58
10. Tae-Change Kim and Ross Harrison, eds., Self and Future Generations: An Intercultural Conversation (Cambridge: WhiteHorse Press, 1999)
11. SallieWestwood, 'Re-Branding Britain: Sociology, Futures and Futorology,' Sociology, 34 (2000), pp. 185-202
12. Lothar Gundling, 'Our Responsibility to Future Generations,' The American Journal of International Law, 84 (1990), pp. 207-12
13. Several writers here refer to the now platitudinous concept of 'sustainable development'. See Julie Davidson, 'Sustainable Development: Business as Usual or a New Way of Living?', Environmental Ethics 22 (2000) pp. 25-42
14. Timothy W. Luke, Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 75-94, 109-14
15. Kristian Skagen Ekeli, 'Green Constitutionalism: The Constitutional Protection of Future Generations', Ratio Juris 20 (2007), pp. 378-401, 397-8
16. 'In Defence of Radical Disobedience', Journal of the Society of Applied Philosophy 15, 1 (1998), pp. 29-47, 43
17. 'Derrida: the Reader', in Simon Glendinning and Robert Eaglestone, eds., Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 1-11, 5
18. The environmental crisis is not mentioned. Given the prominence of this issue since the UN Earth Summit in Rio of 1992, its absence from both Derrida's work and that of his commentators suggests an inherent resistance in the very terms of Derrida's thinking. A third book has an introduction briefly mentioning 'the devastation to be wrought by irreversible climate change' as an issue for which there is as yet 'no theoretical vocabulary' (Martin McQuillan, 'Introduction: The Day after Tomorrow. ⋯ Or, The Deconstruction of the Future', in McQuillan ed. The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy (London: Pluto Press, 2007), p. 4)
19. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Routledge, 1994)
20. Bill McKibben, The End of Nature: Humanity, Climate Change and the Natural World (1990; London: Bloomsbury, 2003), p. 41
21. The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005), pp. 172-3
22. See also Wood's 'On Being Haunted by the Future', Research in Phenomenology 36 (2006), pp. 274-98
23. N. Katherine Hayles, 'Searching for Common Ground,' in Reinventing Nature: Reponses to Postmodern Deconstruction, ed. Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease (Washington DC: Island Press, 1995), pp. 47-63, 56
24. The Idea of Fraternity in America (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973). Daniel P. Thero gives an overview of various attempts to reconcile the work of John Rawls with environmental values, finding them all wanting, 'Rawls and Environmental Ethics: A Critical Examination of the Literature', Environmental Ethics 17 (1995), pp. 93-106
25. For a more favourable reading of elements of the liberal tradition in relation to environmental issues see Kathleen M. Squadrito, 'Locke's View of Dominion', Environmental Ethics 1 (1979), pp. 255-62
26. William Chaloupka, 'John Dewey's Social Aesthetics as a Precedent for Environmental Thought', Environmental Ethics 9 (1987), pp. 243-60
27. Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), p. 241
28. 'Having Nature All Ways: Liberal and Transcendental Perspectives on American Environmentalism', The Journal of Religion 77, 1 (Jan. 1997), pp. 20-43, 24
29. 'Liberalism and the Environment', Environmental Values 7 (1998), pp. 443-59, 456
30. Tom Stoppard, Jumpers (London: Faber and Faber, 1972), p. 31
31. The Long Island/'Paumanok' shore of Whitman's poem often consists now of land reclaimed through landfill sites. William Rathje and Cullen Murphy observe that 'The present contours of virtually every portion of New York City and the neighbouring parts of New Jersey and Long Island have all been shaped by [land]fill, much of it garbage' (Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001), p. 90)
32. See, for instance, Gary Snyder, 'Walt Whitman's Old "New World",' in A Place in Space: New and Selected Prose (New York: Counterpoint, 1995), pp. 214-18
33. John Storey, Cultural Studies & the Study of Popular Culture: Theories and Methods (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), p. 68, 74
34. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), p. 59. Robert J. C. Young's observations in the mid 1990s on the dilemma of progressive criticism in relation to totalitarian regimes now read like a prediction of much of the world of 2008: 'the introduction of human rights, political choice, and freedom also functions as the steady vanguard, the necessary requisite . ⋯ to produce the identificatory needs of consumer capitalism' Torn Halves (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996), p. 4
35. E. O. Wilson, The Future of Life (London: Little Brown Books, 2002), p. 23
36. Car Sick: Solutions for our Car-addicted Culture (Totnes: Green Books, 2006), p. 43
37. Psycho Geography, with pictures by Ralph Steadman (London: Bloomsbury, 2007), p. 70
38. Remark of George Ball in support of the opening of a Fiat plant in the then USSR, quoted in Benjamin R. Barber, 'Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy', Political Science Quarterly 113. 4 (Winter 1998-1999), pp. 573-89, 575
39. See J. Laplanche, J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psycho-Analysis (London: Hogarth Press, 1973), pp. 111-14
40. Bob Pepperman Taylor, 'Environmental Ethics and Political Theory', Polity 23 (1991), pp. 567-83, 581