Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, EcologiesSAGE, 2 окт. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 224 "An exemplary introduction to cutting edge work on the geographies of nature. Intellectually demanding, clearly written and empirically rich, this is a book that deserves a wide readership within and beyond the geographical discipline." - Sarah J. Whatmore, Oxford University Centre for the Environment Geographies of Nature introduces readers to conventional understandings of nature - realist, environmental, constructivist - while examining alternative accounts from different disciplines where nature resists easy classification. Accessibly written, it demonstrates how recent thinking has urgent relevance and impact on the ways in which we approach environmental problems. The text:
Geographies of Nature presents a new kind of environmental analysis, one that refuses to view nature as wholly separate to the human and nonhuman practices through which it is constantly made and remade.
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5 Geographies of nature and difference | 61 |
Part II How and Why Geographies of Nature Matter? | 77 |
6 First things? Nature and the sciences | 79 |
7 Securing natures | 102 |
8 Conserving natures | 124 |
9 Animals and environments | 150 |
10 Environmental policies and sustainabilities | 165 |
Afterword | 188 |
Bibliography | 193 |
Index | 204 |
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Стр. 72 - We oppose epidemic to filiation, contagion to heredity, peopling by contagion to sexual reproduction, sexual production. Bands, human or animal, proliferate by contagion, epidemics, battlefields, and catastrophes. Like hybrids, which are in themselves sterile, born of a sexual union that will not reproduce itself, but which begins over again every time, gaining that much more ground.
Стр. 9 - The ease with which anti-environmental forces like the wise-use movement have attacked such singlespecies preservation efforts suggests the vulnerability of strategies like these. Perhaps partly because our own conflicts over such places and organisms have become so messy, the convergence of wilderness values with concerns about biological diversity and endangered species has helped produce a deep fascination for remote ecosystems, where it is easier to imagine that nature might somehow be "left...
Стр. 30 - bellum omnium contra omnes" and of the bourgeois-economic doctrine of competition together with Malthus's theory of population. When this conjurer's trick has been performed ... the same theories are transferred back again from organic nature into history and it is now claimed that their validity as eternal laws of human society has been proved.
Стр. 61 - ... things' but of a multiplicity of dimensions, of lines and directions in the heart of an assemblage.
Стр. 9 - left alone" to flourish by its own pristine devices. The classic example is the tropical rain forest, which since the 1970s has become the most powerful modern icon of unfallen, sacred land - a veritable Garden of Eden - for many Americans and Europeans. And yet protecting the rain forest in the eyes of First World environmentalists all too often means protecting it from the people who live there. Those who seek to preserve such "wilderness...
Стр. 72 - The difference is that contagion, epidemic, involves terms that are entirely heterogeneous; for example, a human being, an animal, and a bacterium, a virus, a molecule, a microorganism. Or in the case of the truffle, a tree, a fly, and a pig.
Стр. 9 - ... values with concerns about biological diversity and endangered species has helped produce a deep fascination for remote ecosystems, where it is easier to imagine that nature might somehow be "left alone" to flourish by its own pristine devices. The classic example is the tropical rain forest, which since the 1970s has become the most powerful modern icon of unfallen, sacred land - a veritable Garden of Eden - for many Americans and Europeans.
Стр. 72 - There is a block of becoming that snaps up the wasp and the orchid, but from which no wasp-orchid can ever descend.
Стр. 51 - In contrast, the notion of wildlife being fleshed out here is a relational achievement spun between people and animals, plants and soils, documents and devices in heterogeneous social networks which are performed in and through multiple places and fluid ecologies.
Стр. 13 - Animals grazing peacefully on a hillside, waves lapping gently up the pebble beach, a pine forest whistling in a storm, a river bursting its banks, a hurricane tossing houses and cars in the air like play-things, a bush fire raging out of control — all are images of nature, some idyllic others threatening. Can we be sure, however, that this is nature in the conventional meaning of the word, that is, the result of forces uncontaminated by human activity and production? What becomes of this understanding...