Phil Macnaghten is a lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC), Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University. Studying Psychology at Southampton he was awarded his PhD in Psychology from Exeter in 1991. Phil has worked on a wide range of projects broadly focusing on cultural dimensions of environmental policies. British Academy postdoctoral fellow at CSEC 1995 to 1998, researching The Cultural Significance of British Environmentalism. Publications include Contested Natures, Sage (1998), written with John Urry.

He has co-ordinated projects in the UK and Latin America on sustainability, environmental rhetorics, forestry, GM foods, environmental politics, the millennium and risk. His interests include social theory, culture and nature, sustainability, and the sociology of everyday life.

Phil Macnaghten was on the panel at The Great Debate: Science and the Risk Society in March 2004.

Contested Natures (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Phil Macnaghten and John Urry

This book explores the changing significance of nature in daily life. The authors argue that there is no singular `nature'; out there waiting to be saved. Rather, the authors provide a novel and compelling account of multiple 'natures'. Nature is shown as irreducibly contested and embedded.

Selected Publications

Books
Macnaghten, P. and Urry, J. 1998. Contested Natures. London: Sage
Macnaghten, P. and Urry, J. 2000. Body and Society. Volume 6, 3-4 (Guest editors of Special Double Issue on 'Bodies of Nature'; also published as edited book[Sage, 2001])

Recent Articles
Macnaghten, P. and Urry, J. 2000. 'Bodies in the woods', Body and Society, 6, 3-4: 166-182
Myers, G. and Macnaghten, P. 1998. 'Rhetorics of environmental sustainability: places and commonplaces', Environment and Planning A, 30: 333-353
Macnaghten, P. and Jacobs, M. 1997. 'Public identification with sustainable development: investigating cultural barriers to participation', Global Environmental Change, 7: 1-20
Macnaghten, P. 1995. 'Public attitudes towards the countryside: a case study on ambivalence', Journal of Rural Studies, 11: 135-147
Macnaghten, P. and Urry, J. 1995. 'Towards a sociology of nature', Sociology, 29: 203-220

Research Monographs
Macnaghten, P. 2001. Animal Futures: Public attitudes and sensibilities towards animals and biotechnology in contemporary Britain. Lancaster
Grove-White, R., Macnaghten, P. and Wynne, B. 2000. 'Wising Up: The public and new technologies'. Lancaster
Macnaghten, P., Grove-White. R., Waterton, S. and Weldon, S. 1998. 'Woodland Sensibilities'. Lancaster
Grove-White, R., Macnaghten, P. Mayer, S and Wynne, B. 1997. 'Uncertain World: genetically modified organisms, food and public attitudes in Britain'. Lancaster
Macnaghten, P. Grove-White, R,. Jacobs, M and Wynne, B. 1995. 'Public Perceptions and Sustainability in Lancashire'. Preston: Lancashire County Council

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