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Rethinking Nature - Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries (Paperback)
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Rethinking Nature - Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
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Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of
thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the
present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity
conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising
nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the tensions between
the polarities of humans as masters or protectors of nature and as
part of or outside of nature. The book shows how nature is today
the focus of numerous debates, calling for an approach which goes
beyond the merely technical or scientific. It adopts a threefold -
critical, historical and cross-disciplinary - approach in order to
summarise the current state of knowledge. It includes contributions
informed by the humanities (especially history, literature and
philosophy) and social sciences, concerned with the production and
circulation of knowledge about "nature" across disciplines and
across national and cultural spaces. The volume also demonstrates
the ongoing reconfiguration of subject disciplines, as seen in the
recent emergence of new interdisciplinary approaches and the
popularity of the prefix "eco-" (e.g. ecocriticism,
ecospirituality, ecosophy and ecofeminism, as well as subdivisions
of ecology, including urban ecology, industrial ecology and
ecosystem services). Each chapter provides a concise overview of
its topic which will serve as a helpful introduction to students
and a source of easy reference. This text is also valuable reading
for researchers interested in philosophy, sociology, anthropology,
geography, ecology, politics and all their respective
environmentalist strands.
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