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Bodies of nature / edited by Phil Macnaghten, John Urry

Urry, John ; Macnaghten, Phil

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif : SAGE Publications, 2001

Online-Ressource (202 p) : ill

Englisch

Bodies of nature : introduction / Phil Macnaghten and John Urry'Botanizing on the asphalt'? The complex life of cosmopolitan bodies / Nigel Clark -- Still life in nearly present time : the object of nature / Nigel Thrift -- The climbing body, nature and the experience of modernity / Neil Lewis -- Walking in the British countryside : reflexivity, embodied practices and ways to escape / Tim Edensor -- These boots are made for walking ... : mundane technology, the body and human-environment relations / Mike Michael -- Naked as nature intended / David Bell and Ruth Holliday -- Action and noise over a hundred years : the making of a nature region / David Matless -- Bodies in the woods / Phil Magnaghten and John Urry -- Perceiving the environment in Finnish Lapland / Tim Ingold and Terhi Kurttila.

"Bodies of nature is published as volume 6, numbers 3-4 of Body & society"--T.p. verso. - "Published in association with Theory, culture & society"--T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Bodies of nature

1-85702-274-2 (electronic bk.); 978-1-85702-274-2 ( : electronic bk.)

0-85702-274-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-7619-7335-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-85702-274-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-7619-7335-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 652031773     

Online-Ausg.]

LB 58000  | LC 14000  | MR 6050      Ähnliche Literatur

HM636

304.201 ; 306.4

bcl: 71.59

LOC-SH: Philosophy of nature ; Human ecology -- Philosophy ; Human beings -- Effect of environment on ; Human body (Philosophy) ; Human body -- Social aspects

This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated t̀urn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades. The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring, and guides readers through the various ways in which these bodily opportunities and constraints are temporally and spatially organized and managed