Lecture 25 - Human environmental impact and forms of response. Ecological concepts. Examples and selected consequences
Lecture 28 - Ecologism today. Conceptual problems - the idea of nature. Natural capital - worked example
Lecture 29 - Poststructuralism; Derrida and Foucault; background and explanation. Political engagement
Lecture 30 - Postmodernism; challenge to and contrast with modernism; wide impact. Postmodern theory. Criticisms. The Sokal Hoax
Lecture 34 - Fundamentalism - contexts for emergence, types of fundamentalism, rejection of modernity, Manichaean vision. Problems
Lecture 36 - Definitions - technocracy and managerialism. Outline of technocracy - long history. Main problems - examples. Plato's analogy
Lecture 37 - Managerialism - self-conception; efficiency; claim to expertise; problems and failures - conceptual and empirical; examples