René Girard, du mimétisme à l'hominisation

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Julia B. Corbett

"A broader and more comprehensive understanding of how we communicate with each other about the natural world and our relationship to it is essential to solving environmental problems. How do individuals develop beliefs and ideologies about the environment? How do we express those beliefs through communication? How are we influenced by the messages of pop culture and social institutions? And how does all this communication become part of the larger social fabric of what we know as "the environment"? Communicating Nature explores and explains the multiple levels of everyday communication that come together to form our perceptions of the natural world. Author Julia Corbett considers all levels of communication, from communication at the individual level, to environmental messages transmitted by popular culture, to communication generated by social institutions including political and regulatory agencies, business and corporations, media outlets, and educational organizations. The book offers a fresh and engaging introductory look at a topic of broad interest, and is an important work for students of the environment, activists and environmental professionals interested in understanding the cultural context of human-nature interactions."--Publisher's website.

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Margaret Foddy ... [et al

"Resolving Social Dilemmas presents an accessible survey of current research on social dilemmas. A social dilemma arises when actions which are justifiable in terms of individual rationality (e.g. over-harvesting resources, or using private instead of public transportation) threaten the common good and, in the long run, the individual's own self-interest. The study of social dilemmas has important links with many areas in psychology, as well as with cognate disciplines such as risk analysis, environmental science, political science, and economics. Accordingly, the book appeals not only to psychologists, but also to a wider audience of scholars and researchers."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ted Robert Gurr

Gurr explains the framework needed for organized rebellion. He covers the research from frustration-agression school of psychology with sociological, economic, historical, and social psychological sources.

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Rob Anderson and Kenneth N. Cissna

The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Dialogue offers a corrected and extensively annotated version of this central text in human sciences. Focusing on the sole meeting between these two central figures in twentieth-century intellectual life, Anderson and Cissna return to the original 1957 audio tape and to a variety of other primary sources as they correct and clarify the historical record. Anderson and Cissna discuss the central issues of the conversation, including the limits of mutuality approaches to "sell," alternative models of human nature, confirmation of others, and the nature of dialogic relation itself.