Douglas Torgerson
B.A. (Berkeley) M.E.S. (York) M.A. Ph.D. (Toronto) 
Professor of Cultural Studies, Political Studies, and Environmental Studies 

Contact info / web page

Current interests : Political discourses, fortune and comedy, social movement strategies, green theory, politics and the political, Arendt's concept of action. 

Publications include The Promise of Green Politics: Environmentalism and the Public Sphere (Duke University Press, 1999); Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State, co-editor with R. Paehlke 2nd revised edition (Broadview Press, 2005); Industrialization and Assessment: Social Impact Assessment as a Social Phenomenon (York University, 1980); and essays on political discourse and action, images of place, green theory, managerialism and policy discourse, social movement strategies.