Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium

by Braun,Bruce; Braun,Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780415144933
• ISBN10: 0415144930
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millennium represents the 'end' of nature as well.Remaking Realitybrings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of "social nature" provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrounding race, gender and class, the contributors explore important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(2)
List of contributors	ix	(2)
Foreword	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii
PART 1 Introduction	1	(42)
1 The construction of nature and the nature of construction: analytical and political tools for building survivable futures	3	(40)
NOEL CASTREE
BRUCE BRAUN
PART 2 Capitalising and enframing nature	43	(126)
2 Whose nature, whose culture?: private productions of space and the "preservation" of nature	46	(18)
CINDI KATZ
3 Fluid bodies, managed nature	64	(20)
EMILY MARTIN
4 Moving on from both state and consumer eugenics?	84	(16)
HILARY ROSE
5 Reasserting nature: constructing urban environments after Fordism	100	(26)
ROGER KEIL
JOHN GRAHAM
6 Environmentalism, Wise Use and the nature of accumulation in the rural West	126	(24)
JAMES McCARTHY
7 The nature of denaturalized consumption and everyday life	150	(19)
ALLAN PRED
PART 3 Actors, networks and the politics of hybridity	169	(100)
8 Science, social constructivism and nature	173	(21)
DAVID DEMERITT
9 Incorporating nature: environmental narratives and the reproduction of food	194	(27)
MARGARET FITZSIMMONS
DAVID GOODMAN
10 To modernise or ecologise? That is the question	221	(22)
BRUNO LATOUR
CHARIS CUSSINS
11 Nature as artifice and artifact	243	(26)
MICHAEL WATTS
PART 4 Afterword	269	(17)
12 Nature at the millenium: production and re-enchantment	271	(15)
NEIL SMITH
Index	286