Conference paper
Governmentality, Law, Public Interest and the Environment
The Australian Sociology Association
The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Conference (2003) (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 04/12/2003–06/12/2003)
2003
Abstract
The legal regulation of the environment is exemplary of the formation, practice and challenge of modern legal discourse and governance. The latter part of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of environmentalism and the problematization of the environment in terms of the management of hazard and risk. The social authority of law to endorse and regulate governmental programmes has meant that it has been inevitably implicated in the contestation and negotiation of environmental governance. In turn, environmental governance and discourse have required a certain refiguring of legal rationality. Legal discourse has been confronted by the immanent critique of environmentalism. In this paper I reflect upon the formation and limits of legal discourse about protection of the environment.
Details
- Title
- Governmentality, Law, Public Interest and the Environment
- Authors/Creators
- J. Goodie (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- The Australian Sociology Association (TASA) Conference (2003) (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 04/12/2003–06/12/2003)
- Publisher
- The Australian Sociology Association
- Identifiers
- 991005542023707891
- Copyright
- The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Law
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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