Elizabeth Cherry

For the Birds

Protecting Wildlife Through the Naturalist Gaze

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Produktbeschreibung

One in five people in the United States is a birder, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes. For the Birds offers readers a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781978801059
• ISBN-10: 197880105X
• Artikelnr.: 56020938

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH CHERRY is an associate professor of sociology at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. She is the author of Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States.    

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1          Becoming a Birder
2          The Naturalist Gaze
3          Common Birds and the Social Construction of Nature
4          Wilderness, Wildness, and Mobility
5          Good Birds, Bad Birds, and Animal Agency
6          Birding and Citizen Science
7          Birding as a Conservation Movement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index