Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics

Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics

by Noel Castree (Author)

Synopsis

This groundbreaking collection brings together for the first time diverse geographical work on the social construction of nature. Eleven leading contributors not only discuss social nature, but look at the concrete ways in which it is made and the political implications of its construction. They use International case studies to illustrate their theoretical positions.The original contributions are written at a level that is appropriate for upper level students, and a helpful introduction by the editors, looking at the paradigms and perspectives that have been employed in the study of social nature, sets the chapters in context. The volume as a whole enables teachers and students to explore the ways in which social nature is evident and to engage with the direct implications of this for human lives, ecologies and politics.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
Edition: 1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 01 Nov 2001

ISBN 10: 0631215689
ISBN 13: 9780631215684

Media Reviews
Nature as a concept, it is often said, is elusive, complex, promiscuous and yet familiar. Social Nature is a superb introduction to nature's complexity from the vantage point of the very best of critical geography. An excellent introduction to the epistemological thickets which have grown up around, and which threaten to strangle, our understanding of Nature as artifice and artifact. Michael Watts No other single volume summarizes and critically reviews the geographical research on social nature. Choice
Author Bio
Noel Castree is Associate Professor of Geography at theUniversity of Manchester. Co-editor (with Bruce Braun) ofRemaking reality: nature at the millennium (1998), he haspublished widely on social theory approaches to nature, with aparticular focus on Marxian political economy. He is currentlyundertaking research on the commodifiaction of human genes and thecommercial, cultural and ethical aspects of patenting livingentities.

Bruce Braun is Assistant Professor in Geography at theUniversity of Minnesota. He is co-editor (with Noel Castree) ofRemaking reality: nature at the millennium (1998) and haspublished widely on the social construction and cultural politicsof nature. He is currently doing research on nature, the state andmodernity in post-war Canada.