Rethinking Nature Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries 1st Edition by Aurélie Choné 1138214930 9781138214934

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ISBN 10: 1138214930

ISBN 13: 9781138214934

Author: Aurélie Choné

Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the tensions between the polarities of humans as masters or protectors of nature and as part of or outside of nature. The book shows how nature is today the focus of numerous debates, calling for an approach which goes beyond the merely technical or scientific. It adopts a threefold – critical, historical and cross-disciplinary – approach in order to summarise the current state of knowledge. It includes contributions informed by the humanities (especially history, literature and philosophy) and social sciences, concerned with the production and circulation of knowledge about “nature” across disciplines and across national and cultural spaces. The volume also demonstrates the ongoing reconfiguration of subject disciplines, as seen in the recent emergence of new interdisciplinary approaches and the popularity of the prefix “eco-” (e.g. ecocriticism, ecospirituality, ecosophy and ecofeminism, as well as subdivisions of ecology, including urban ecology, industrial ecology and ecosystem services). Each chapter provides a concise overview of its topic which will serve as a helpful introduction to students and a source of easy reference. This text is also valuable reading for researchers interested in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, ecology, politics and all their respective environmentalist strands.

Rethinking Nature Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries 1st Table of contents:

PART I Values and actions

1 Environmental ethics: respect and responsibility

2 Ecosophy: ‘How deep is your ecology’?

3 Ecospirituality

4 Ecopsychology: the psyche and the environment

PART II Writings and representations

5 The aesthetics of nature

6 Ecocriticism

7 Epistemocritical perspectives on nature: nature in culture

PART III Movements, activism and societies

8 From Lebensreform to political ecology

9 Ecofeminism

10 From environmental sociology to ecosociologies

11 From anthropogeography to ethnoecology: is social evolutionism also natural evolutionism?

PART IV Renewed ecologies

12 Rethinking rural nature in the era of ecocide

13 Urban ecology

14 Nature, environment and health

15 Sustainable urbanism

16 Industrial ecology: between model and metaphor: visions of nature in industrial ecology

17 The ecosystem services paradigm: rise, scope and limits

PART V Human–animal

18 Ecocide, ethnocide and civilizations: multiple ways of destroying life

19 Animal studies

20 Constructing an animal history

21 Outlook: environmental humanities

Conclusion: how nature matters

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