Herbert Reid
Herbert Reid's work as a theorist of democratic politics and culture has been shaped by the ideas of Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Paul Virilio. His participant-observation in Appalachian citizen action politics and community development projects has been a signal influence. His recent teaching and research efforts have focused on social ecology and environmental issues, globalization and speed, and theories of space and place. His 40 years of service at the University of Kentucky included terms as Director of the Appalachian Center and the Environmental Studies Program. He was co-author and co-PI for the UK Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program. Active in the Committee for Social Theory and in the Appalachian Studies program, he has worked with community-based organizations in Appalachia for several decades. His recent book, Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice (co-authored with Betsy Taylor) engages emerging problems of scale (local, regional, global) in reclaiming democratic publics in an era of climate destablization.
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With its analysis embedded in philosophical and material contexts, this penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization and represents a brave rethinking of politics, economy, culture, and professionalism.
"This very welcome and timely effort lays foundations for thinking our way out of the epistemological errors and related politics that have plunged us into the present ecological crisis. Recovering the Commons represents an intellectual model that is desperately needed."--Mary Hufford, author of Waging Democracy in the Kingdom of Coal: OVEC and the Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice in Central Appalachia
Herbert Reid is a professor of political science at the University of Kentucky and the editor of Up the Mainstream: A Critique of Ideology in American Politics and Everyday Life. Betsy Taylor is a cultural anthropologist and senior research scholar at the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Book Review by James Stone of Recovering the Commons http://globalvistas.net/2010/09/08/book-review-by-james-stone-of-recovering-the-commons.aspx?ref=rss
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With its analysis embedded in philosophical and material contexts, this penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization and represents a brave rethinking of politics, economy, culture, and professionalism.
"This very welcome and timely effort lays foundations for thinking our way out of the epistemological errors and related politics that have plunged us into the present ecological crisis. Recovering the Commons represents an intellectual model that is desperately needed."--Mary Hufford, author of Waging Democracy in the Kingdom of Coal: OVEC and the Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice in Central Appalachia
Herbert Reid is a professor of political science at the University of Kentucky and the editor of Up the Mainstream: A Critique of Ideology in American Politics and Everyday Life. Betsy Taylor is a cultural anthropologist and senior research scholar at the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Book Review by James Stone of Recovering the Commons http://globalvistas.net/2010/09/08/book-review-by-james-stone-of-recovering-the-commons.aspx?ref=rss