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Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, Ecologies
"An exemplary introduction to cutting edge work on the geographies of nature. Intellectually demanding, clearly written and empirically rich, this is a book that deserves a wide readership within and beyond the geographical discipline." - Sarah J. Whatmore, Oxford University Centre for the Environm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk, Change
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 insig... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The more-than-human condition (Multispecies Encounters)
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 bring... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics
Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016