ABSTRACT
Can I (Mark Whitehead) let you into a little secret? This is, perhaps, not the best secret for someone writing a chapter on the form and nature of environmental politics to admit, but I must confess to finding it very difficult to effectively define and/or discern where environmental politics begins and other manifestations of political life end. What I can say with some certainty is that this definitional difficulty I experience is not a product of a lack of effort. I teach lecture courses, write newspaper articles, convene seminars, and regularly blog and micro-blog on environmental politics. But the more I think about, talk on and practise what I believe to be environmental politics, this elusive phenomenon (or more accurately collection of phenomena) appears to slip my grasp.
