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Knowing Nature : conversations at the Intersection of political ecology and science studies / edited by Mara J. Goldman, Paul Nadasdy, and Matthew D. Turner.
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives—one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge—their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before.
Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780226301402 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0226301400 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780226301419 (paper : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0226301419 (paper : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago ; University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-341) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Politicizing environmental explanations: what can political ecology learn from sociology and philosophy of science? / Tim Forsyth -- Debating the science of using marine turtles: boundary work among species experts / Lisa M. Campbell -- Technobiological imaginaries: how do systems biologists know nature? / Joan H. Fujimura -- Agency, structuredness, and the protection of knowledge within intersecting processes / Peter J. Taylor -- Fermentation, rot, and other human-microbial performances / Mrill Ingram -- Ferricrete, forests, and temporal scale in the production of colonial science in Africa / Chris Duvall -- "We don't harvest animals; we kill them": agricultural metaphors and the politics of wildlife management in the Yukon / Paul Nadasdy -- Political violence and scientific forestry: emergencies, insurgencies, and counterinsurgencies in southeast Asia / Peter Vandergeest and Nancy Lee Peluso -- Spacial-geographic models of water scarcity and supply in irrigation engineering and management: Bolivia, 1952-2009 / Karl S. Zimmerer -- The politics of connectivity across human-occupied landscapes: corridors near Nairobi National Park, Kenya / Mara J. Goldman -- Rooted networks, webs of relation, and the power of situated science: bringing the models back down to earth in Zambrana / Dianne Rocheleau -- Circulating science, incompletely regulating commodities: governing from a distance in transitional agro-food networks / Ryan E. Galt -- Reclaiming the technological imagination: water, power, and place in India / Roopali Phadke -- Circulating knowledge, constructing expertise / Rebecca Lave -- Experiments as "performances": interpreting farmers' soil fertility management practices in western Kenya / Joshua J. Ramisch.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | JA 75.8 .K66 2011 | 286293 | Stacks | Available | - |
Summary:
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives—one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge—their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before.
Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.
Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.