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To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00843.x Byline: Andrew Dobson (1) Abstract: This article is about the nature of democracy in environmental politics, with special reference to the issue of representation, and to the issues of speaking and listening. It is argued that politics has always been regarded as concerned with 'speechifying', and that this has created problems for politicising environmental issues, many of which have to do with 'dumb nature'. The work of Bruno Latour is examined in this context as a way of including nature in politics without resorting to extravagant claims about 'nature speaking'. Latour's epistemological approach to 'politicising nature' is discussed, and attention is focused on the importance for the political (and especially democratic) process of 'listening' as well as 'speaking'. Author Affiliation: (1)University of Keele Article History: (Accepted: 1 July 2009)

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00571.x Byline: Andrew Dobson (1) Abstract: This paper analyses the account of political obligation given by cosmopolitans and concludes that this account, which depends on a weak or thin connection between members of common humanity, leaves a motivational vacuum at the heart of cosmopolitanism. An alternative view, according to which material ties that bind prompt obligations of justice in a globalising world, is offered. This is 'thick cosmopolitanism'. Author Affiliation: (1)Open University Article History: (Accepted: 25 July 2005)