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Knowing Nature
Mara J. Goldman
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Description for Knowing Nature
Hardcover. Explores 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. This title asks what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, and how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment. Editor(s): Goldman, Mara J.; Nadasdy, Paul; Turner, Matthew D. Num Pages: 376 pages, 22 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JP; PD; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
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 framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively ... Read more
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 framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226301402
SKU
V9780226301402
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About Mara J. Goldman
Mara J. Goldman is assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Paul Nadasdy is associate professor of anthropology and American Indian studies at Cornell University. Matthew D. Turner is professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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