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Knowing nature : conversations at the intersection of political ecology and science studies /

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 knowledg...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goldman, Mara (Editor ), Nadasdy, Paul (Editor ), Turner, Matthew D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Mara J. Goldman and Matthew D. Turner; Part 1. Production of Environmental Knowledge: Scientists, Complex Natures, and the Question of Agency; Introduction
  • Matthew D. Turner; 1. Politicizing Environmental Explanations: What Can Political Ecology Learn from Sociology and Philosophy of Science?
  • Tim Forsyth; 2. Debating the Science of Using Marine Turtles: Boundary Work among Species Experts
  • Lisa M. Campbell; 3. Technobiological Imaginaries: How Do Systems Biologists Know Nature?
  • Joan H. Fujimura.
  • 4. Agency, Structuredness, and the Production of Knowledge within Intersecting Processes
  • Peter J. Taylor5. Fermentation, Rot, and Other Human- Microbial Performances
  • Mrill Ingram; 6. Ferricrete, Forests, and Temporal Scale in the Production of Colonial Science in Africa
  • Chris Duvall; Part 2. Application of Environmental Knowledge: The Politics of Constructing Society/Nature; Introduction
  • Paul Nadasdy; 7. "We Don't Harvest Animals; We Kill Them": Agricultural Metaphors and the Politics of Wildlife Management in the Yukon
  • Paul Nadasdy.
  • 8. Political Violence and Scientific Forestry: Emergencies, Insurgencies, and Counterinsurgencies in Southeast Asia
  • Peter Vandergeest and Nancy LeePeluso9. Spatial-Geographic Models of Water Scarcity and Supply in Irrigation Engineering and Management: Bolivia, 1952-2009
  • Karl S. Zimmerer; 10. The Politics of Connectivity across Human-Occupied Landscapes: Corridors near Nairobi National Park, Kenya
  • Mara J. Goldman; Part 3. Circulation of Environmental Knowledge: Networks, Expertise, and Science in Practice; Introduction
  • Mara J. Goldman.
  • 11. Rooted Networks, Webs of Relation, and the Power of Situated Science: Bringing the Models Back Down to Earth in Zambrana
  • Dianne Rocheleau12. Circulating Science, Incompletely Regulating Commodities: Governing from a Distance in Transnational Agro-Food Networks
  • Ryan E. Galt; 13. Reclaiming the Technological Imagination: Water, Power, and Place in India
  • Roopali Phadke; 14. Circulating Knowledge, Constructing Expertise
  • Rebecca Lave; 15. Experiments as "Performances": Interpreting Farmers' Soil Fertility Management Practices in Western Kenya
  • Joshua J. Ramisch.
  • Conclusion
  • Matthew D. TurnerReferences; List of Contributors; Index.