Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium

by Braun,Bruce; Braun,Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780415144940
• ISBN10: 0415144949
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-08-11
• 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

Introduction

The Construction of nature and the nature of construction: analytical and political tools for building survivable features

Capitalising and Enframing Nature

Introduction

Whose nature, whose culture? Private productions of space and the 'preservation' of nature

Fluid bodies, managed nature

Moving on from both state and consumer eugenics

Reasserting nature: constructing urban environments after Fordism

Environmentalism, Wise Use and the nature of accumulation in the rural west

The nature of decentralised consumption and everyday life

Actors, Networks and the Politics of Hybridity

Introduction

Science, social constructivism and nature

Incorporating nature: environmental narratives and the reproduction of food Margaret

To modernise or ecologise? That is the question

Nature as artifice and artifact

Afterword

Re-enchanting nature

Index and

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