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Spanning cultural and political ecology, the political economy of
the environment, humanistic landscape interpretation, cultural
studies of nature, and science and technology studies, this volume
is the definitive guide to environmental studies in Human Geography
over the past 30 years. The articles collected capture conceptual
developments in the field for audiences within and beyond
Geography, and illustrate the diversity and remarkable vitality of
geographical research on society-environment relations.
This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the
millennium represents the 'end' of nature as well. "Remaking
Reality" brings together contributors from across the human
sciences who argue that a notion of "social nature" provides great
hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches
to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science,
technology and social movements surrounding race, gender and class,
the contributors explore important and emerging sites where nature
is now being remade with considerable social and ecological
consequences.
Remaking Reality rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millennium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Bringing together leading international contributors this book argues that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrounding race, gender and class, the contributors explore important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences. For critics and activists alike Remaking Reality provides essential theoretical and political tools to rethink environmentalism and progressive social natures for the twenty-first century.
Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and
narratives order a resource boom Over the past decade, new oil
plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries.
Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom
in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of
settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the
tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.
This collection reveals the results of sustained research in
Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the “Bakken Boom.”
While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the
book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead,
Settling the Boom demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil
play resolve through normative narratives and material and
affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism’s
violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space.
Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional
policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and
film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and
narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken. Contributors: Morgan
Adamson, Macalester College; Kai Bosworth, Virginia Commonwealth U;
Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State U; Jessica Lehman, Durham U.
Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and
narratives order a resource boom Over the past decade, new oil
plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries.
Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom
in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of
settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the
tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms.
This collection reveals the results of sustained research in
Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the “Bakken Boom.”
While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the
book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead,
Settling the Boom demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil
play resolve through normative narratives and material and
affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism’s
violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space.
Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional
policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and
film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and
narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken. Contributors: Morgan
Adamson, Macalester College; Kai Bosworth, Virginia Commonwealth U;
Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State U; Jessica Lehman, Durham U.
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political
Matter seeks to develop a fully "materialist" theory of politics,
one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship
between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert
that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with
and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life
lightbulbs, for example-too often leaves us oscillating between
fearful repudiation and glib celebration.
Exploring the frictions that come from linking the work of scholars
in science and technology studies and political theory, these
essays spark new ways of understanding the matter of
politics.
Contributors: Andrew Barry, U of Oxford; Jane Bennett, Johns
Hopkins U; Stephen J. Collier, New School; William E. Connolly,
Johns Hopkins U; Rosalyn Diprose, U of New South Wales; Lisa Disch,
U of Michigan; Gay Hawkins, U of New South Wales; Andrew Lakoff, UC
San Diego; Noortje Marres, U of London; Isabelle Stengers, U Libre
de Bruxelles; Nigel Thrift, U of Warwick.
Braun (geography, U. of Minnesota) provides a new viewpoint on the
complex cultural, political, and intellectual forces involved in
the forest policies of British Columbia. Employing
poststructuralist theory and using the 1993 protests over logging
in Clayoquot Sound as his starting point, Braun ass
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