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Contested Natures: By Phil Macnaghten, John Urry, John Urry
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- ISBN
- 9780761953135
- EAN
- 9780761953135
- Publication Name
- Contested Natures
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, The Limited
- Series
- Published in Association with Theory, Culture and Society Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 17.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Demonstrating that all notions of nature are inextricably entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the many ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of different senses, different times and the production of distinct spaces, including the local, the national and the global. The authors emphasize the importance of cultural understandings of the physical world, highlighting the ways in which these have been routinely misunderstood by academic and policy discourses. They show that popular conceptions of, and attitudes to, nature are often contradictory and that there are no simple ways of prevailing upon people to 'save the environment.
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Publisher
SAGE Publications, The Limited
ISBN-10
0761953132
ISBN-13
9780761953135
eBay Product ID (ePID)
537219
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Contested Natures
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Published in Association with Theory, Culture and Society Ser.
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
54
Lc Classification Number
Hm206.M22 1998
Volume Number
Vol. 54
Reviews
. . .a rich discussion of the ways in which nature and the environment are constituted in specific social practices. . .a subtle, textured account of how natures are constructed, experienced, understood, and acted upon., ". . .a rich discussion of the ways in which nature and the environment are constituted in specific social practices. . .a subtle, textured account of how natures are constructed, experienced, understood, and acted upon." , 'This book is vigorously written and bursting with ideas, indeed, mirroring the book's own conclusions about the post-modern world it barely manages to govern its own content. Although it 'seeks to show that there is no singualr 'nature' as such, only by a diversity of contested of contested natures' (p.1), by the end it is clear we are really dealing with the problem of 'the environment', of a 'globable nature', the 'global environment', 'the planet', 'the globe' (pp. 274-7)' - British Journal of Sociology'This is a valubale collation and multi-disciplinary critical review of numerous concepts, positions and contexts surrounding different knowledges - elite, academic, popular - concerning nature. Ratmond Williams famously refers to nature, along with culture, as the most difficult words in the English language for which to establish 'meaning' (Keywords, Fontana, 1976). Macnaghten and Urry's book does justice to this difficulty in the complexity it reveals' - Journal of Rural Studies'Contested Natures is an invaluable asset for a student of environmental politics and of human-nature relations. Its lucid and clear writing style combines with good summary introductions and conclusions to provide a clear and well-written introduction to the historiography of human-nature relations in the west' - Environmental Politics'This book gives us a firm idea of what the sociology of another modernity is about. Finally we go beyond a reductionist view of nature. Quite astonishing: sociology of the environment becomes exciting' - Ulrich Beck, University of Munich'Contested Natures is a path-breaking sociological analysis that provides a theoretical foundation to the practice of environmentalists around the world. It will be debated for years to come' - Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley'A panoramic approach to our society's approach to nature, this book is a superb analysis of many of our modern discontents with our treatment of the natural environment. It deserves to become a classic' - Howard Newby, Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton'Steadfastly aligning their book within a social constructionist view of nature, the authors of Contested Nature set out to depict a sociology of the environment in which 'strictly speaking there is no such thing a natuture, only natures'. A series of almost stand-alone chapters each reveal different aspects of these ( contested ) natures...Individually the chapters are thorough and well-researched, and will provide a good resource for students and teachers alike..the book covers a great deal of ground and its support for Tim Ingold's idea of 'dwellingness' marks it out as an important resource in debates about nature(s) within social science' - The Geographical Journal' This is, in many ways, an extraordinary and groundbreaking book. Of the currently available social scientific understandings of the environmental problem (more accurately, problems) it certainly has been seen as one of the most innovatory and path breaking. Furthermore, its excellence is a product of combining radically new theoretical insights with detailed empirical work' - Regional Studies</i&
Table of Content
PART ONE: RETHINKING NATURE AND SOCIETYIntroductionNature and Society A Historical ContextA Sociology of Environmental KnowledgesCultural Readings of NatureEnvironmental BadsEnvironmentalism and SocietyConclusionPART TWO: INVENTING NATUREIntroductionPostwar Reconstruction and Rational NatureTo Nature as EnvironmentInventing British EnvironmentalismPost-Rio EnvironmentalismConclusionPART THREE: HUMANS AND NATUREIntroductionThe Polling Culture and the EnvironmentA Relational Framework Rhetoric, Identity and Nature Globalization, Agency and TrustPART FOUR: SENSING NATUREIntroductionNature, Space and VisionNature and the Other SensesConclusionPART FIVE: NATURE AND TIMEIntroductionThe Social Sciences and TimeDifferent Times in and of NatureMemories of NaturePART SIX: NATURE AS COUNTRYSIDEINTRODUCTIONProducing Countryside SpacesLandscapes of DisciplineThe Countryside and AmbivalenceSpatial Practices in the CountrysidePART SEVEN: SUSTAINING NATUREIntroductionSustainability as New Public DiscourseSustainability Discourse and Daily PracticeFraming Environmental ConcernsConclusionPART EIGHT: GOVERNING NATURESummarizingMad CowsGlobalizing the NationGoverning Nature
Copyright Date
1998
Topic
Sociology / General, General, Movements / Behaviorism
Lccn
97-062443
Dewey Decimal
304.2
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Social Science
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