Immaterialities: Norms, Culture and Religion in environmental politics and practice.

In environmental sociology our attention is often, justifiably, focused on materialities: from capital and commodities to infrastructure and pollution. Environment-society relations are also governed by immaterial realities, however; realities that are in some ways just as consequential as materialities. In this session, we will discuss norms, culture, religion, and other immaterial social dimensions that drive our views of, and interactions with, nature.