ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the connection between phenomenology’s historical interest in environments and contemporary political questions relating to the natural world. It argues that environmental phenomenology is an explicitly normative project in the way traditional phenomenology is not and that hermeneutical principles relating to narrative are central to making its normative case. It lays out a fourfold method for eco-phenomenologists, beginning with analysis and critique of dominant narratives about nature and leading to the formulation of counter-narratives to replace them.
