Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relationship between culture and nature, showing how they are intimately and variously interrelated. Sarah Whatmore critically examines the opposition between culture and non-human; the social and the material; culture and nature, demonstrating that they are not antitheses. She: draws on highly topical theories ......
Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. He explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together, using examples of potential model organizations that employ the types of strategies he advocates.
Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. He explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together, using examples of potential model organizations that employ the types of strategies he advocates.
Practising Human Geography provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practise of human geography, examining those methods and practices which are integral to 'doing' geography. Paul Cloke introduces the core issues that inform research design and practise in the discipline in this systematic, comprehensive and pedagogic volume. The book, organized into two main sections, offers a theoretically-informed reflection on the construction and interpretation of geographical data. It is framed by an historical overview of how ideas of practising human geography have changed. Section one examines pre-constructed data from official and non-official sources and constructed data from fieldwork. Section two reviews four interpretive strategies: ordering and sorting; enumeration and the use of numerical methods; 'scientific' explanation and analysis; understanding - informed by thinking in the humanities and cultural studies; Illustrated with approximately 35 tables and figures, the text is punctuated by bibliographically referenced text boxes offering definitions of key terms.
Practising Human Geography provides a critical introduction to recent disciplinary debates about the practise of human geography, examining those methods and practices which are integral to 'doing' geography. Paul Cloke introduces the core issues that inform research design and practise in the discipline in this systematic, comprehensive and pedagogic volume. The book, organized into two main sections, offers a theoretically-informed reflection on the construction and interpretation of geographical data. It is framed by an historical overview of how ideas of practising human geography have changed. Section one examines pre-constructed data from official and non-official sources and constructed data from fieldwork. Section two reviews four interpretive strategies: ordering and sorting; enumeration and the use of numerical methods; 'scientific' explanation and analysis; understanding - informed by thinking in the humanities and cultural studies; Illustrated with approximately 35 tables and figures, the text is punctuated by bibliographically referenced text boxes offering definitions of key terms.
Exploring the changing significance of nature in daily life, this text demonstrates that nature is irreducibly contested and embedded in highly diverse and ambivalent social practices. The book emphasizes that people's understandings and attitudes to nature are often ambivalent and there are no simple ways of prevailing upon them to "save the ......
Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relationship between culture and nature, showing how they are intimately and variously interrelated. Sarah Whatmore critically examines the opposition between culture and non-human; the social and the material; culture and nature, demonstrating that they are not antitheses. She: draws on highly topical theories ......
This text brings together major European writers, including Ulrich Beck, to discuss issues related to technology, risk and nature. The first section examines the "instrumentalization" of nature and the relation between science, technology and expert systems. These themes are elaborated in the second section by a discussion of the implication of technology (and risk) in late-modern ideas of the "self", individualization and reflexivity. The third section examines the institutionalization of enivironmentalism, the politics of ecology and the role that the social sciences can play in these debates.
In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of ......
