Beyond Sovereign Territory by Thom Kuehls

Beyond Sovereign Territory by Thom Kuehls

How should we think about politics in a world where ecological problems - from the deforestation of the Amazon to acid rain - transcend national boundaries? This is the timely and important question addressed by Thom Kuehls in Beyond Sovereign Territory. Contending that the sovereign territorial state is not adequate to contain or describe the boundaries of ecopolitics, the author reorients our thinking about government, nature, and politics. Kuehls argues that changes in technology and the scope of governmental aims have rendered conventional ecological and internationalist aims anachronistic - and ultimately ineffective - in the face of impending environmental collapse. He questions the process by which land is transformed into an object of sovereignty - into territory - demonstrating how representations of political space that are premised on territorial sovereignty fail to come to terms with much of what is involved in ecopolitics. Ultimately, Kuehls critiques an orientation that privileges a certain utilitarian relationship between humans and nonhuman nature, one in which the earth is largely interpreted as given to humans. Deeply humanistic and challenging conventional wisdom, Beyond Sovereign Territory will be of interest to readers of environmental politics, geography, international politics, and political theory.

Thom Kuehls is an assistant professor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where he teaches political theory.

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ISBN 13	9780816624683
ISBN 10	0816624682
Title	Beyond Sovereign Territory
Author	Thom Kuehls
Series	Borderlines
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	1996-02-07
Number of pages	192
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