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Papers by Peter Cannavo
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisi... more Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for such political concepts as rights, citizenship, justice, democracy, the state, race, class, and gender. As the field has matured, scholars have begun to explore connections between Green Theory and such canonical political thinkers as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. The essays in this volume put important figures from the political theory canon in dialogue with current environmental political theory. It is the first comprehensive volume to bring the insights of Green Theory to bear in reinterpreting these canonical theorists. Individual essays cover such classical figures in Western thought as Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Mill, and Burke, but they also depart from the traditional canon to consider Mary Wollstonecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Confucius. Engaging and accessible, the essays also offer original and innovative interpretations that often challenge standard readings of these thinkers. In examining and explicating how these great thinkers of the past viewed the natural world and our relationship with nature, the essays also illuminate our current environmental predicament. Essays onPlato * Aristotle * Niccolo Machiavelli * Thomas Hobbes * John Locke * David Hume * Jean-Jacques Rousseau * Edmund Burke * Mary Wollstonecraft * John Stuart Mill * Karl Marx * W. E. B. Du Bois * Martin Heidegger * Hannah Arendt * Confucius ContributorsSheryl D. Breen, W. Scott Cameron, Peter F. Cannavo, Joel Jay Kassiola, Joseph H. Lane Jr. Timothy W. Luke, John M. Meyer, Ozguc Orhan, Barbara K. Seeber, Francisco Seijo, Kimberly K. Smith, Piers H. G. Stephens, Zev Trachtenberg, Andrew Valls, Harlan Wilson
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Apr 15, 2020
Environmental Values, Feb 1, 2022
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Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2021
The MIT Press eBooks, 2007
This paper studies how strategies aiming at working landscapes can simultaneously improve stormwa... more This paper studies how strategies aiming at working landscapes can simultaneously improve stormwater resiliency and spatial quality in two suburban neighbourhoods in New Orleans that were hard hit by hurricane Katrina in 2005. A spatial strategy mitigates stormwater flooding problems during a 1/10-year storm event and explores the potential of water as an amenity in the city. The paper identifies the need for a new approach by quantifying problems concerning (1) hydrology, (2) vegetation and (3) vacancy. Based on topography, subsidence rate, problems with rain flooding and the original appearance of the landscape, 4 landscape zones are distinguished that provide basic concepts for interventions on all scale levels, addressing the 3 problems stated above. A new water plan for the area based on retain-store-discharge principles and a robust network of native vegetation form a new landscape framework. By utilising the empty space(s) due to vacancy following the hurricane to serve as water storage, this problem turns into an opportunity to recreate attractive residential areas with high quality of life. The results of this study illustrate how preparation for the future and a changing climate poses challenges, but also offers opportunities for the creation of attractive delta cities.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 6, 2022
A politics that affirms natural limitseither ecological limits or limits posed by the human const... more A politics that affirms natural limitseither ecological limits or limits posed by the human constitutionis subject to certain criticisms. One of these suggests that a focus on natural limits unduly constrains politics, crowding out deliberation and self-government in favour of expert management. This paper considers how the civic republican tradition approaches the concept of natural limits. The republican tradition offers two arguments for affirming natural limits, one emphasizing the value of vulnerability and the other emphasizing the ideal of liberty as non-domination. However, the two arguments are in tension with one another. An emphasis on vulnerability suggests a natural, pre-political set of constraints on politics (thus seemingly validating the very criticism levelled at a politics of limits), whereas an emphasis on non-domination suggests a more open-ended, contested politics. This tension points to deeper tensions between the communitarian and Italian-Atlantic strands of the republican tradition. In the end, the paper tries to address these tensions by showing that an egalitarian approach to vulnerability actually supports the ideal of non-domination and that a respect for natural limits is consistent with a robust, deliberative republican politics emphasizing contestation and self-government. In developing the concept of vulnerability, the paper draws upon not only republican thought, but also feminist theory.
Environmental Politics, Sep 20, 2020
View related articles View Crossmark data reflections and insights on our political and environme... more View related articles View Crossmark data reflections and insights on our political and environmental crisis, but offers insufficient guidance as to how we might actually solve it.
Perspectives on Politics, Mar 1, 2017
his book is that Wurgaft left the most urgent questions that the study raises unaddressed by focu... more his book is that Wurgaft left the most urgent questions that the study raises unaddressed by focusing on these particular thinkers, and by interpreting their ideas as having a consensus on the need for intellectuals to remain primarily politically disengaged. It remains the case today that the function of intellectuals within the public sphere is a deeply contested question, and the general absence in the book of voices such as Sartre’s, who saw intellectuals as having a more activist role, seems likely to limit the relevance that Thinking in Publicmay otherwise have had. This is, of course, a work of intellectual history being reviewed in a political science journal, and thus much of this criticism largely reflects the differing interests and objectives of political theorists and intellectual historians. In sum, Wurgaft offers us a deft and thoughtful comparative study of three seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, each of whom thought deeply about the unique character of that eventful century’s politics, and about the role intellectuals should have in that political context.
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
Political Theory, May 27, 2013
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 2016
This chapter attempts to broaden our understanding of the relatively under-investigated connectio... more This chapter attempts to broaden our understanding of the relatively under-investigated connection between civic republican and green perspectives. The chapter outlines key similarities between civic republicanism and more radical forms of environmentalism and highlights how both republicanism and environmentalism face an internal tension between communitarian values and a strong commitment to meaningful participatory politics. The author argues that greater engagement with republicanism by environmental political theory can promote a better grasp of environmentalism’s political implications and internal tensions. Moreover, engagement with republicanism can also yield insight into how we might address ecological threats, including climate change. Republican conceptions of dispersed sovereignty, civic virtue, and even the proper use of nature can help guide a more ecologically sustainable society.
The MIT Press eBooks, Jul 9, 2010
Liberty and the Ecological Crisis, 2019
Encyclopedia of Political Theory
The MIT Press eBooks, Sep 19, 2008
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2008
Perspectives on Politics, 2019
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisi... more Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for such political concepts as rights, citizenship, justice, democracy, the state, race, class, and gender. As the field has matured, scholars have begun to explore connections between Green Theory and such canonical political thinkers as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. The essays in this volume put important figures from the political theory canon in dialogue with current environmental political theory. It is the first comprehensive volume to bring the insights of Green Theory to bear in reinterpreting these canonical theorists. Individual essays cover such classical figures in Western thought as Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Mill, and Burke, but they also depart from the traditional canon to consider Mary Wollstonecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Confucius. Engaging and accessible, the essays also offer original and innovative interpretations that often challenge standard readings of these thinkers. In examining and explicating how these great thinkers of the past viewed the natural world and our relationship with nature, the essays also illuminate our current environmental predicament. Essays onPlato * Aristotle * Niccolo Machiavelli * Thomas Hobbes * John Locke * David Hume * Jean-Jacques Rousseau * Edmund Burke * Mary Wollstonecraft * John Stuart Mill * Karl Marx * W. E. B. Du Bois * Martin Heidegger * Hannah Arendt * Confucius ContributorsSheryl D. Breen, W. Scott Cameron, Peter F. Cannavo, Joel Jay Kassiola, Joseph H. Lane Jr. Timothy W. Luke, John M. Meyer, Ozguc Orhan, Barbara K. Seeber, Francisco Seijo, Kimberly K. Smith, Piers H. G. Stephens, Zev Trachtenberg, Andrew Valls, Harlan Wilson
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Apr 15, 2020
Environmental Values, Feb 1, 2022
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Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2021
The MIT Press eBooks, 2007
This paper studies how strategies aiming at working landscapes can simultaneously improve stormwa... more This paper studies how strategies aiming at working landscapes can simultaneously improve stormwater resiliency and spatial quality in two suburban neighbourhoods in New Orleans that were hard hit by hurricane Katrina in 2005. A spatial strategy mitigates stormwater flooding problems during a 1/10-year storm event and explores the potential of water as an amenity in the city. The paper identifies the need for a new approach by quantifying problems concerning (1) hydrology, (2) vegetation and (3) vacancy. Based on topography, subsidence rate, problems with rain flooding and the original appearance of the landscape, 4 landscape zones are distinguished that provide basic concepts for interventions on all scale levels, addressing the 3 problems stated above. A new water plan for the area based on retain-store-discharge principles and a robust network of native vegetation form a new landscape framework. By utilising the empty space(s) due to vacancy following the hurricane to serve as water storage, this problem turns into an opportunity to recreate attractive residential areas with high quality of life. The results of this study illustrate how preparation for the future and a changing climate poses challenges, but also offers opportunities for the creation of attractive delta cities.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 6, 2022
A politics that affirms natural limitseither ecological limits or limits posed by the human const... more A politics that affirms natural limitseither ecological limits or limits posed by the human constitutionis subject to certain criticisms. One of these suggests that a focus on natural limits unduly constrains politics, crowding out deliberation and self-government in favour of expert management. This paper considers how the civic republican tradition approaches the concept of natural limits. The republican tradition offers two arguments for affirming natural limits, one emphasizing the value of vulnerability and the other emphasizing the ideal of liberty as non-domination. However, the two arguments are in tension with one another. An emphasis on vulnerability suggests a natural, pre-political set of constraints on politics (thus seemingly validating the very criticism levelled at a politics of limits), whereas an emphasis on non-domination suggests a more open-ended, contested politics. This tension points to deeper tensions between the communitarian and Italian-Atlantic strands of the republican tradition. In the end, the paper tries to address these tensions by showing that an egalitarian approach to vulnerability actually supports the ideal of non-domination and that a respect for natural limits is consistent with a robust, deliberative republican politics emphasizing contestation and self-government. In developing the concept of vulnerability, the paper draws upon not only republican thought, but also feminist theory.
Environmental Politics, Sep 20, 2020
View related articles View Crossmark data reflections and insights on our political and environme... more View related articles View Crossmark data reflections and insights on our political and environmental crisis, but offers insufficient guidance as to how we might actually solve it.
Perspectives on Politics, Mar 1, 2017
his book is that Wurgaft left the most urgent questions that the study raises unaddressed by focu... more his book is that Wurgaft left the most urgent questions that the study raises unaddressed by focusing on these particular thinkers, and by interpreting their ideas as having a consensus on the need for intellectuals to remain primarily politically disengaged. It remains the case today that the function of intellectuals within the public sphere is a deeply contested question, and the general absence in the book of voices such as Sartre’s, who saw intellectuals as having a more activist role, seems likely to limit the relevance that Thinking in Publicmay otherwise have had. This is, of course, a work of intellectual history being reviewed in a political science journal, and thus much of this criticism largely reflects the differing interests and objectives of political theorists and intellectual historians. In sum, Wurgaft offers us a deft and thoughtful comparative study of three seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, each of whom thought deeply about the unique character of that eventful century’s politics, and about the role intellectuals should have in that political context.
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
Political Theory, May 27, 2013
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
The MIT Press eBooks, Jan 26, 2015
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 2016
This chapter attempts to broaden our understanding of the relatively under-investigated connectio... more This chapter attempts to broaden our understanding of the relatively under-investigated connection between civic republican and green perspectives. The chapter outlines key similarities between civic republicanism and more radical forms of environmentalism and highlights how both republicanism and environmentalism face an internal tension between communitarian values and a strong commitment to meaningful participatory politics. The author argues that greater engagement with republicanism by environmental political theory can promote a better grasp of environmentalism’s political implications and internal tensions. Moreover, engagement with republicanism can also yield insight into how we might address ecological threats, including climate change. Republican conceptions of dispersed sovereignty, civic virtue, and even the proper use of nature can help guide a more ecologically sustainable society.
The MIT Press eBooks, Jul 9, 2010
Liberty and the Ecological Crisis, 2019
Encyclopedia of Political Theory
The MIT Press eBooks, Sep 19, 2008
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2008
Perspectives on Politics, 2019