Nature and Social Theory
Autor Alex Franklinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 oct 2001
Is humanity and society separable from nature? Modern accounts emphasised the difference between humanity and nature and set up independent sciences for each domain, but was this separation ever properly achieved? This book contends that fabricated boundaries between nature and culture have been breached both in practice and in new theoretical accounts.
Throughout, Franklin develops upon his premise that nature and culture interpenetrate. The argument begins with a critical discussion of the Romantic idea of pure nature; of a nature unsullied by humanity, marginalized, fragile and in need of protection. The argument is developed by examining more recent discourses that identify nature with environment, and cast humans in the role of polluter and destroyer.
The author documents contemporary views about nature which suggest that humanity and nature have never been separate but have always co-existed. Humanity is not only more involved with non-human natures, but also seeks persistently to embed itself in the natural world through embodied, naturalised modes of engagement. This book reveals the staggering depth of this engagement in the ordinary spaces and everyday lives of contemporary societies.
Thorough and insightful, this book will be of use and interest to students of sociology, environmental studies and cultural studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780761963783
ISBN-10: 0761963782
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0761963782
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
`Written with clarity and sophistication, it is not just an original argument about relationships of nature and culture, but also a useful text' - Keith Tester, University of Portsmouth
Cuprins
Introduction
PART ONE
Thinking about Nature 1
Disciplinary Beginnings
Thinking about Nature 2
The Nature Crisis?
A New Anthropology of Nature
PART TWO
Naturalization
Hybridity
Embodiment
Politicising Nature
PART ONE
Thinking about Nature 1
Disciplinary Beginnings
Thinking about Nature 2
The Nature Crisis?
A New Anthropology of Nature
PART TWO
Naturalization
Hybridity
Embodiment
Politicising Nature
Notă biografică
Descriere
This book asks the questions can `Man' be separated from `Nature'? Is it valid to seek to `control' Nature? It argues that the firm modern boundaries between nature and culture have been breached and pulls together new strands of thinking about nature which suggest that humanity and nature have never been separate. The argument is developed through a critical discussion of the Romantic ideal of pure nature, unsullied by humanity and largely confined to fragile margins in need of protection and more recent discourses which identify nature with environment, and cast man in the role of a polluter and destroyer.