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Progress in Human Geography
Human Geography
The events triggered by defaults on ‘sub-prime’ mortgages have been widely described as constitut... more The events triggered by defaults on ‘sub-prime’ mortgages have been widely described as constituting a ‘crisis’. But a crisis of what exactly? Several different explanations of the 20 month drama that unfolded from summer 2007 have been proposed by a wide range of commentators. These include journalists, academics, politicians, business-people, pundits and public administrators, among others. This essay parses this superfluity of crisis talk into five principal accounts. It focuses on the Anglo-American scene. The interpretations presented range from the simplistic and populist to the complex and specialised. They are compared and contrasted, and in each case their diverse normative implications are sketched. As a Marxist, I argue that the fifth interpretation – which speaks to macro-economic imbalances and asymmetries of class power – is the most compelling. But I also argue that each of the other interpretations can be narrated and politicised in such a way as to advance Left argu...
Environmental Humanities, 2014
Social Cultural Geography, Feb 18, 2007
In Holloway S Editor Key Concepts in Geography London Sage 2003 P 252 282, 2003
Geography Compass 2014 8 450 463, Jul 1, 2014
Antipode 2015 47 1 27, 2015
Science As Culture 2006 15 159 170, Jun 1, 2006
Geography Compass 2014 8 436 439, Jul 5, 2014
Environment and Planning a 41 2010 41 1788 1794, Aug 1, 2010
Progress in Human Geography 2013 37 161 163, Feb 1, 2013
Environment and Planning a 2006 38 1 6, 2006
Geography Compass 2014 8 464 476, 2014
Nature Climate Change, 2015
Geographical Research 2016 54 1 14, 2016
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13668790303542, Jul 1, 2010
This essay offers a critique of environmental ethics and argues that a post-environmental ethics ... more This essay offers a critique of environmental ethics and argues that a post-environmental ethics may be unavoidable. It does so by exposing and questioning the ontological assumptions common to otherwise different modalities of environmental ethics. These modalities, it is argued, rest upon an implicit or explicit 'material essentialism'. Such essentialism entails the belief that putatively 'environmental' entities have discrete and relatively enduring properties. These properties 'anchor' ethical claims and permit the objects of ethical considerability to be named. Against this, it is argued that a non-essentialist ontology is preferable. This ontology presumes neither that environmental phenomena are simply environmental nor that their properties can be 'fixed' under some determinate description. Drawing on recent 'hybrid' research in human geography and elsewhere, it is suggested that the motility and mutability of ostensibly environmental entities be recognised. This recognition, I conclude, destabilises conventional environmental ethics and calls for a more supple mode of ethical reasoning.
Progress in Human Geography
Human Geography
The events triggered by defaults on ‘sub-prime’ mortgages have been widely described as constitut... more The events triggered by defaults on ‘sub-prime’ mortgages have been widely described as constituting a ‘crisis’. But a crisis of what exactly? Several different explanations of the 20 month drama that unfolded from summer 2007 have been proposed by a wide range of commentators. These include journalists, academics, politicians, business-people, pundits and public administrators, among others. This essay parses this superfluity of crisis talk into five principal accounts. It focuses on the Anglo-American scene. The interpretations presented range from the simplistic and populist to the complex and specialised. They are compared and contrasted, and in each case their diverse normative implications are sketched. As a Marxist, I argue that the fifth interpretation – which speaks to macro-economic imbalances and asymmetries of class power – is the most compelling. But I also argue that each of the other interpretations can be narrated and politicised in such a way as to advance Left argu...
Environmental Humanities, 2014
Social Cultural Geography, Feb 18, 2007
In Holloway S Editor Key Concepts in Geography London Sage 2003 P 252 282, 2003
Geography Compass 2014 8 450 463, Jul 1, 2014
Antipode 2015 47 1 27, 2015
Science As Culture 2006 15 159 170, Jun 1, 2006
Geography Compass 2014 8 436 439, Jul 5, 2014
Environment and Planning a 41 2010 41 1788 1794, Aug 1, 2010
Progress in Human Geography 2013 37 161 163, Feb 1, 2013
Environment and Planning a 2006 38 1 6, 2006
Geography Compass 2014 8 464 476, 2014
Nature Climate Change, 2015
Geographical Research 2016 54 1 14, 2016
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 13668790303542, Jul 1, 2010
This essay offers a critique of environmental ethics and argues that a post-environmental ethics ... more This essay offers a critique of environmental ethics and argues that a post-environmental ethics may be unavoidable. It does so by exposing and questioning the ontological assumptions common to otherwise different modalities of environmental ethics. These modalities, it is argued, rest upon an implicit or explicit 'material essentialism'. Such essentialism entails the belief that putatively 'environmental' entities have discrete and relatively enduring properties. These properties 'anchor' ethical claims and permit the objects of ethical considerability to be named. Against this, it is argued that a non-essentialist ontology is preferable. This ontology presumes neither that environmental phenomena are simply environmental nor that their properties can be 'fixed' under some determinate description. Drawing on recent 'hybrid' research in human geography and elsewhere, it is suggested that the motility and mutability of ostensibly environmental entities be recognised. This recognition, I conclude, destabilises conventional environmental ethics and calls for a more supple mode of ethical reasoning.