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Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we
order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we'
are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering
human-animal relations have economic and political implications and
affect peoples' everyday lives. By bringing together
historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies
which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book
reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple
ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled,
practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking
only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over
life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when
control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection,
fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book
problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics
that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of
human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and
theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live
together with more than human others .
Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we
order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we'
are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering
human-animal relations have economic and political implications and
affect peoples' everyday lives. By bringing together
historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies
which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book
reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple
ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled,
practised and possibly policed and politicized. Instead of asking
only how control and knowledge are and have been extended over
life, the chapters in this book also look at what happens when
control fails, at practices which defy orders, escape detection,
fail to produce or only loosely hang together. In doing so the book
problematises and extends the Foucauldian notion of biopolitics
that has been such a central analytical concept in studies of
human-animal relations and provides a unique resource of cases and
theoretical refinements regarding the ways in which we live
together with more than human others .
The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature
as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change
and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are
increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.
The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social
sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations
between society and nature. Individual chapters look in depth at
genes, environments and human development, medical practices and
health, and the management of environmental risk. Throughout
students are encouraged to draw on their own experiences to
understand the theoretical and practical problems of living in this
new natural-and-social world.
This exciting and original text will be essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand more clearly the role and
limitations of technological and scientific progress in
contemporary society.
Knowledge and the Social Sciences takes as its point of departure
the claims that all forms of knowledge, the social sciences
included, must be seen and understood in their social context. It
argues that the social sciences both describe and transform their
object of study, though rarely in ways that social scientists
intend, and introduces students to the key epistemological and
philosophical terms and issues essential for further study in the
social sciences.
In a radical and yet lucid and practical introduction to ways of
thinking and knowing in the social sciences this text investigates:
* the origins and consequences of different types of knowledge in
substantive areas of social change: medical practice, religious
beliefs, and the environment
* whether there is a decline in public trust of expert knowledge
systems
* whether we are entering a knowledge society, a fragmented
post-modern society, or a risk society.
Should our jobs depend on our genes? If humanity started global warming can humanity stop it? The age if which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. In a world in which our control over the environment has proved illusory even as our ability to manipulate nature - both our own and that of other species - grows, the distinction between the natural and the social is becoming ever more blurred. Environmental changed and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities. The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk and Change draws on insights form across the social sciences - from psychology, economics, geography as well as sociology - to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. It examines particularly genes and identity, medical practices and health, market solutions to environmental problems and the management of risk. Throughout students are encouraged also to draw on their own experiences to understand the theoretical and practical problems of living in this new natural-and-social world.
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