Format:
1 Online-Ressource (312 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780203983966
Content:
This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrouding race, gender and class, the contributors explroe important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences. The essays are organised around two themes: 'capitalising and envisioning nature' and 'actors, networks and the politics of hybridity'. An afterword by Neil Smith reflects on the problems and possibilities of future names. For critics and activists alike, Remaking Reality provides essential theoretical and political tools to rethink environmentalism and progressive social natures for the twenty first century.
Content:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Part 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF CONSTRUCTION -- NATURE AT THE MILLENIUM -- THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE -- Marx and nature -- First World agrarian political economy -- Third World political ecology -- New directions -- ENFRAMING NATURE: CULTURAL INTELLIGIBILITY AND ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CALCULATION -- Historicizing appearances: nature and representation in late modernity -- Effects of power and the domain of politics: constructing and contesting nature's materialization -- NETWORKS, ACTANTS AND TECHNOSCIENCE: BUILDING HYBRIDS -- The social construction of scientific knowledge -- Nature, science and the construction of "society" -- Amodernity and the analytics and politics of quasi-objects -- CONCLUSION: TOWARD A POLITICAL THEORY OF SOCIAL NATURE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part 2 CAPITALISING AND ENFRAMING NATURE -- 2 WHOSE NATURE, WHOSE CULTURE? -- INTRODUCTION -- NATURE AS AN ACCUMULATION STRATEGY -- CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM -- ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION -- RESTORATION AND ITS LIMITS -- PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION AS GATEWAYS TO PRIVATIZATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 FLUID BODIES, MANAGED NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFENDED BORDERS: THE BODY AS MACHINE -- BLURRED BOUNDARIES: THE BODY AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM -- MANAGING "OUR ROOTS IN THE WORLD" -- CORRELATIONS -- CAUTIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 MOVING ON FROM BOTH STATE AND CONSUMER EUGENICS? -- INTRODUCTION: EUGENICS AND THE GENOME PROJECT -- ORIGIN STORIES -- EUGENIC ENTHUSIASMS -- CRITICISING CONSUMER EUGENICISM -- BRITISH CRITICISM OF THE NEW GENETICS -- THE PECULIARITY OF BRITISH SCIENCE FRICTIONS? -- MANAGING UK CRITICISM -- MOVING ON -- REFERENCES -- 5 REASSERTING NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE "NATURE" OF URBANIZATION.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415144933
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
,
Geography
Keywords:
Natur
;
Umwelt
;
Umweltpolitik
;
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