New natures : joining environmental history with science and technology studies / edited by Dolly Jørgensen, Finn Arne Jørgensen, and Sara B. Pritchard ; Kevin C. Armitage [and thirteen others], contributors.

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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 richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage€with key...

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Other Authors: Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972- (Editor)
Jørgensen, Finn Arne, 1975- (Editor)
Pritchard, Sara B., 1972- (Editor)
Armitage, Kevin C. (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Human ecology > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Environmental sciences > Study and teaching.
Science > Study and teaching.
Technology > Study and teaching.
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Human ecology.
History.
Electronic books.
Genre:
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (303 pages)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Joining environmental history with science and technology studies : promises, challenges, and contributions / Sara B. Pritchard
  • The natural history of early northeastern America : an inexact science / Anya Zilberstein
  • Farming and not knowing : agnotology meets environmental history / Frank Uekotter
  • Environmentalists on both sides : enactments in the California rigs-to-reefs debate / Dolly Jørgensen
  • The backbone of everyday environmentalism : cultural scripting and technological systems / Finn Arne Jørgensen
  • The soil doctor : Hugh Hammond Bennett, soil conservation, and the search for a democratic science / Kevin C. Armitage
  • Communicating knowledge : the Swedish mercury group and vernacular science, 1965-1972 / Michael Egan
  • Signals in the forest : cultural boundaries of science in Białowieża, Poland / Eunice Blavascunas
  • The production and circulation of standardized Karakul sheep and frontier settlement in the empires of Hitler, Mussolini, and Salazar / Tiago Saraiva
  • Trading spaces : transferring energy and organizing power in the nineteenth-century Atlantic grain trade / Thomas D. Finger
  • Situated yet mobile : examining the environmental history of Arctic ecological science / Stephen Bocking
  • White Mountain Apache boundary-work as an instrument of ecopolitical liberation and landscape change / David Tomblin
  • NEOecology : the solar system's emerging environmental history and politics / Valerie A. Olson
  • Epilogue : Preservation in the age of entanglement : STS and the history of future urban nature / Sverker Sörlin.