Edward Hyams: Ecology and Politics 'Under the Vine'. (1st February 2011)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Edward Hyams: Ecology and Politics 'Under the Vine'. (1st February 2011)
- Main Title:
- Edward Hyams: Ecology and Politics 'Under the Vine'
- Authors:
- Smith, Mick
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This paper offers an assessment of the agricultural eco-politics of Edward Hyams (1910-75), novelist, gardener, historian, broadcaster and anarchist. It focuses in particular on his collaboration with the conservative writer on rural England, and founding member of the Soil Association, H.J. Massingham which resulted in a book, Prophecy of Famine (1953) - a fundamental critique of the effects of industrial capitalism on farming and a call for agricultural self-sufficiency and soil conservation. This collaboration between two writers with very different political views raises important questions about the nature of eco-politics and whether its critique of the dominant ideology of 'progress' (at least in its historicist forms) can still constitute a radical 'progressive' politics. Hyams' writings, and his differences from Massingham, particularly over the issue of private ownership of land, are illustrative of this apparent tension.
- Is Part Of:
- Environmental values. Volume 20:Number 1(2011:Spring)
- Journal:
- Environmental values
- Issue:
- Volume 20:Number 1(2011:Spring)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 1 (2011)
- Year:
- 2011
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2011-0020-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 95
- Page End:
- 119
- Publication Date:
- 2011-02-01
- Subjects:
- Edward Hyams -- ecological politics -- progress -- historicism -- organic agriculture
Environmental ethics -- Periodicals
Environmental policy -- Periodicals
179.105 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EV/EVcont.html ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3197/096327111X12922350166111 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0963-2719
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