Geographies of Nature : Societies, Environments, Ecologies

by Steve Hinchliffe

• ISBN13: 9781412910491
• ISBN10: 1412910498
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-17
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Is human society so all-pervading that it makes sense to talk about the end of nature? Or are we living in a world where nature matters more than ever before? Geographies of Nature provides a reasoned and case-study-rich engagement with contemporary, nature practices, introducing readers to conventional understandings of nature while examining alternative accounts from different disciplines - where nature resists easy classification. Accessibly written, Geographies of Nature demonstrates how recent thinking has urgent relevance and impact on the ways in which we approach environmental problems and policies, from risk and biosecurity, to the conservation of rare species and the ways we understand and sustain our cities, to our relations with animals and other nonhumans and the ways in which culturenatures are organised nationally and internationally.

Author Biography

Steve Hinchliffe is Reader in Environmental Geography at the Open University, Milton Keynes

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Figures	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
What Are Geographies of Nature?	p. 5
Nature's reality	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Nature out there	p. 10
Two species of nature	p. 14
Conclusion	p. 22
Background reading	p. 22
Further reading	p. 22
The thought of Nature	p. 23
Evolution as competitive individualism	p. 24
Darwin, evolution and its impacts	p. 28
Conclusion: from dependency to co-production	p. 33
Background reading	p. 34
Further reading	p. 34
Towards the co-production of nature and society	p. 35
Divisions - their causes and consequences	p. 36
Scrapie: a sociable history	p. 37
Conclusion	p. 45
Background reading	p. 46
Further reading	p. 46
Hybrid natures	p. 47
Interactions	p. 47
Hybrids	p. 50
A more than human phenomenology?	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 59
Background reading	p. 60
Further reading	p. 60
Geographies of nature and difference	p. 61
Degrees and differences	p. 62
Nature's geography	p. 66
Involving geographies of nature	p. 72
Conclusion	p. 74
Background reading	p. 75
Further reading	p. 75
How and Why Geographies of Nature Matter?	p. 77
First things? Nature and the sciences	p. 79
First things - conforming proteins in practice	p. 80
Making policy without politics: sticking to non-stick facts	p. 86
Ways of being open	p. 94
The politics of things	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 99
Background reading	p. 100
Further reading	p. 101
Securing natures	p. 102
Introduction	p. 102
Biosecurity	p. 102
Foot and mouth disease	p. 107
Highly pathogenic avian influenza	p. 112
Multiple networks	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 122
Background reading	p. 123
Further reading	p. 123
Conserving natures	p. 124
Conserving nature in theory and practice	p. 124
Making things present	p. 127
Ethologies and representation	p. 143
A careful conservation	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 147
Background reading	p. 148
Further reading	p. 148
Animals and environments - towards a caring environmentalism	p. 150
Human animals - what kind of relation?	p. 151
Translating the manifesto	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 162
Background reading	p. 163
Further reading	p. 164
Environmental policies and sustainabilities	p. 165
Making things concrete	p. 166
Modes of ordering	p. 175
Ecologies of action	p. 181
Sustainability and multiplicity	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 187
Further reading	p. 187
Afterword: Activating Geographies of Nature	p. 188
No Nature, or politics without Nature	p. 188
Many natures - doing politics as multinaturalism	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 204
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