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Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces


Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces

Paperback by Whatmore, Sarah

Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces

£56.00

ISBN:
9780761965671
Publication Date:
21 Aug 2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications Inc
Pages:
226 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
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Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces

Description

`Hybrid Geographies is one of the most original and important contributions to our field in the last 30 years. At once immensley provocative and productive, it is written with uncommon clarity and grace, and promises to breathe new life not only into geographical inquiry but into critical practice across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences - and beyond. An extraordinary achievement' - Professor Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia Hybrid Geographies critically examines the `opposition' between nature and culture, the material and the social, as represented in scientific, environmental and popular discourses. Demonstrating that the world is not an exclusively human achievement, Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relation between human and non-human, the social and the material, showing how they are intimately and variously linked. General arguments - informed by work in critical geography, feminist theory, environmental ethics, and science studies - are illustrated throughout with detailed case-study material. This exemplifies the two core themes of the book: a consideration of hybridity (the human/non-human relation) and of the `fault-lines' in the spatial organization of society and nature. Hybrid Geographies is essential reading for students in the social sciences with an interest in nature, space and social theory.

Contents

Introducing Hybrid Geographies SECTION ONE: BEWILDERING SPACES Displacing the Wild Topologies of Wildlife Embodying the Wild Tales of Becoming Elephant SECTION TWO: GOVERNING SPACES Unsettling Australia Wormholes in Territorial Governance Reinventing Possession Boundary Disputes in the Governance of Plant Genetic Resources SECTION THREE: LIVING SPACES Transgressing Objectivity The Monstrous Topicality of `GM' Foods Geographies of/for a More than Human World Towards a Relational Ethics

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