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New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies
Dolly Jorgensen
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Description for New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies
Paperback. Editor(s): Jorgensen, Dolly; Jorgensen, Finn Arne; Pritchard, Sara B. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: RNA; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.
The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; ... Read more
New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.
The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822962427
SKU
V9780822962427
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About Dolly Jorgensen
DOLLY JØRGENSEN is Professor of History and Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at University of Stavanger, Norway. Sara B. Pritchard is associate professor in the department of science and technology studies at Cornell University.
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