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Moral Entanglements - Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany (Paperback)
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Moral Entanglements - Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany (Paperback)
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At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field
ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands
the question of how values change over time and how individuals
develop moral commitments. Using life history data derived from
written narratives and oral histories, Moral Entanglements follows
the development of conservation from the point in time at which the
greatest declines in bird life took place to the current efforts in
large-scale biodiversity conservation and environmental policy
within the European Union. While often depicted as the outcome of
an environmental revolution that has taken place since the 1960s,
Bargheer demonstrates to the contrary that the relevant practices
and institutions that shape contemporary conservation have evolved
gradually since the early nineteenth century. Moral Entanglements
further shows that the practices and institutions in which bird
conservation is entangled differ between the two countries. In
Britain, birds derived their meaning in the context of the game of
bird watching as a leisure activity. Here birds are now, as then,
the most popular and best protected taxonomic group of wildlife due
to their particularly suitable status as toys in a collecting game,
turning nature into a playground. In Germany, by contrast, birds
were initially part of the world of work. They were protected as
useful economic tools, rendering services of ecological pest
control in a system of agricultural production modeled after the
factory shop floor. Based on this extensive analysis, Bargheer
formulates a sociology of morality informed by a pragmatist theory
of value.
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