Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of
disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative
collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that
one explanation for the current malaise of the "politics of
ecology" is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating
"technonatural" space/times. International contributors map the
political ecologies of our technonatural present and indicate
possible paths for technonatural futures.
The term "technonatures" is in debt to a long line of
environmental cultural theory from Raymond Williams onwards,
problematizing the idea that a politics of the environment can be
usefully grounded in terms of the rhetoric of defending the pure,
the authentic, or an idealized past solely in terms of the
ecological or the natural. In using the term "technonatures" as an
organizing myth and metaphor for thinking about the politics of
nature in contemporary times, this collection seeks to explore one
increasingly pronounced dimension of the social natures discussion.
Technonatures highlights a growing range of voices considering the
claim that we are not only inhabiting diverse social natures but
that within such natures our knowledge of our worlds is ever more
technologically mediated, produced, enacted, and contested.
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