Hybrid Geographies : Natures Cultures Spaces

by Sarah Whatmore

• ISBN13: 9780761965671
• ISBN10: 076196567X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-04
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Hybrid Geographies is a critical examination of the relation between culture and nature; the human and the non-human; the social and the material. The text demonstrates that culture and nature are not antitheses. They are intimately and variously linked. General arguments - informed by recent work in social theory - are illustrated throughout with detailed case-study material that shows how nature and culture are interrelated. The objective is to interrogate how ideas and practices mark off and regulate the commerce between the human and the non-human. Case studies that demonstrate the argument include an examination of genetically modified foods; a discussion of the idea of "wildlife"; and an inquiry into the management of wilderness spaces. Hybrid Geographies is essential reading for all students in the social sciences with an interest in nature, space and social theory.

Table of Contents

Introducing Hybrid Geographies

SECTION ONE: BEWILDERING SPACES

Displacing the Wild

Topologies of Wildlife

Embodying the Wild

Tales of Becoming Elephant

SECTION TWO: GOVERNING SPACES

Unsettling Australia

Wormholes in Territorial Governance

Reinventing Possession

Boundary Disputes in the Governance of Plant Genetic Resources

SECTION THREE: LIVING SPACES

Transgressing Objectivity

The Monstrous Topicality of `GM' Foods

Geographies of//for a More than Human World

Towards a Relational Ethics