Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the
cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature.
Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes,
nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in
Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to
become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological
knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the
universal appeal of Canada's magnificent nature, but their struggle
in translating nature reveals that our understanding of
nature-including scientific knowledge-is always shaped by the
specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical
context. These include the changing meanings of work in a
neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of
finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada's vast nature.
Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of
conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature
is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions,
contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of
nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is
envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a
legitimate subject.
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