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New Natures : Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978725
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New NaturesDDC classification:
  • 304.2
LOC classification:
  • GF13
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies: Promises, Challenges, and Contributions / Sara B. Pritchard -- Part 1. Ways of Knowing -- 2. The Natural History of Early Northeastern America: An Inexact Science / Anya Zilberstein -- 3. Farming and Not Knowing: Agnotology Meets Environmental History / Frank Uekotter -- 4. Environmentalists on Both Sides: Enactments in the California Rigs-to-Reefs Debate / Dolly Jørgensen -- 5. The Backbone of Everyday Environmentalism: Cultural Scripting and Technological Systems / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- Part II. Constructions of Environmental Expertise -- 6. The Soil Doctor: Hugh Hammond Bennett, Soil Conservation, and the Search for a Democratic Science / Kevin C. Armitage -- 7. Communicating Knowledge: The Swedish Mercury Group and Vernacular Science, 1966 - 1972 / Michael Egan -- 8. Signals in the Forest: Cultural Boundaries of Science in Bialowieza, Poland / Eunice Blavascunas -- Part III. Networks, Mobilities, and Boundaries -- 9. The Production and Circulation of Standardized Karakul Sheep and Frontier Settlement in the Empires of Hitler, Mussolini, and Salazar / Tiago Saraiva -- 10. Trading Spaces: Transferring Energy and Organizing Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Grain Trade / Thomas D. Finger -- 11. Situated Yet Mobile: Examining the Environmental History of Arctic Ecological Science / Stephen Bocking -- 12. White Mountain Apache Boundary-Work as an Instrument of Ecopolitical Liberation and Landscape Change / David Tomblin -- 13. NEOecology: The Solar System's Emerging Environmental History and Politics / Valerie A. Olson -- Epilogue: Preservation in the Age of EntanglementL STS and the History of Future Urban Nature / Sverker Sorlin -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents historical studies that engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies: Promises, Challenges, and Contributions / Sara B. Pritchard -- Part 1. Ways of Knowing -- 2. The Natural History of Early Northeastern America: An Inexact Science / Anya Zilberstein -- 3. Farming and Not Knowing: Agnotology Meets Environmental History / Frank Uekotter -- 4. Environmentalists on Both Sides: Enactments in the California Rigs-to-Reefs Debate / Dolly Jørgensen -- 5. The Backbone of Everyday Environmentalism: Cultural Scripting and Technological Systems / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- Part II. Constructions of Environmental Expertise -- 6. The Soil Doctor: Hugh Hammond Bennett, Soil Conservation, and the Search for a Democratic Science / Kevin C. Armitage -- 7. Communicating Knowledge: The Swedish Mercury Group and Vernacular Science, 1966 - 1972 / Michael Egan -- 8. Signals in the Forest: Cultural Boundaries of Science in Bialowieza, Poland / Eunice Blavascunas -- Part III. Networks, Mobilities, and Boundaries -- 9. The Production and Circulation of Standardized Karakul Sheep and Frontier Settlement in the Empires of Hitler, Mussolini, and Salazar / Tiago Saraiva -- 10. Trading Spaces: Transferring Energy and Organizing Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Grain Trade / Thomas D. Finger -- 11. Situated Yet Mobile: Examining the Environmental History of Arctic Ecological Science / Stephen Bocking -- 12. White Mountain Apache Boundary-Work as an Instrument of Ecopolitical Liberation and Landscape Change / David Tomblin -- 13. NEOecology: The Solar System's Emerging Environmental History and Politics / Valerie A. Olson -- Epilogue: Preservation in the Age of EntanglementL STS and the History of Future Urban Nature / Sverker Sorlin -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents historical studies that engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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