ISBN:
076196567X
,
0761965661
,
9780761965671
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 225 p)
,
ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Hybrid Geographies : Natures Cultures Spaces
DDC:
304.2
Schlagwort(e):
Human ecology Philosophy
;
Human ecology
;
Anthropogeografie
;
Poststrukturalismus
;
Geografie
;
Poststrukturalismus
Kurzfassung:
Hybrid Geographies critically examines the `opposition' between nature and culture, the material and the social, as represented in scientific, environmental and popular discourses. Demonstrating that the world is not an exclusively human achievement, Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relation between human and non-human, the social and the material, showing how they are intimately and variously linked. General arguments - informed by work in critical geography, feminist theory, environmental ethics, and science studies - are illustrated throughout with detailed case-study material. This exemp
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover ; Contents ; List of figures and tables ; 1 Introducing Hybrid Geographies; Section one: Bewildering Spaces ; 2 Displacing the Wild: topologies of wildlife; 3 Embodying the Wild: tales of becoming elephant; Section two: Governing Spaces ; 4 Unsettling Australia: wormholes in territorial governance; 5 Reinventing Possession: boundary disputes in the governance of plant genetic resources; Section Three: Living Spaces ; 6 Transgressing Objectivity: the monstrous topicality of 'GM' food; 7 Geographies of/for a More Than Human World: towards a relational ethics; Notes ; References
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Index of Names Subject Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-216) and indexes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/hybrid-geographies
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