Technonatures
Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: White, Damian F; Wilbert, Chris
Technonatures
Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: White, Damian F; Wilbert, Chris
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Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the "politics of ecology" is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating "technonatural" space/times. International contributors map the political ecologies of our technonatural present and indicate possible paths for technonatural futures. The term "technonatures" is in debt to a long line of environmental cultural theory from Raymond Williams onwards,…mehr
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- Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Seitenzahl: 282
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 408g
- ISBN-13: 9781554581504
- ISBN-10: 1554581508
- Artikelnr.: 26158353
- Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Seitenzahl: 282
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 408g
- ISBN-13: 9781554581504
- ISBN-10: 1554581508
- Artikelnr.: 26158353
Places in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Damian F. White and Chris
Wilbert
Introduction: Inhabiting Technonatural Space/Times Damian F. White and
Chris Wilbert
Part One: Conceptualizing Technonatural Time/Spaces
Chapter One: Governing Global Environmental Flows: Ecological Modernization
in Technonatural Time/Spaces Peter Oosterveer
Chapter Two: Circulations and Metabolisms: (Hybrid) Natures and (Cyborgs)
Cities Erik Swyngedouw
Chapter Three: The Cellphone-in-the-Countryside: On Some of the Ironic
Spatialities of Technonature Mike Michael
Chapter Four: Living Cities: Towards a Politics of Conviviality Steve
Hinchcliffe and Sarah Whatmore
Part Two: Experiencing Technonatural Cultures
Chapter Five: Boundaries and Border Wars: DES, Technology, and
Environmental Justice Julie Sze
Chapter Six: Critical Mass: How Built Bodies Can Help Forge Environmental
Futures Fletcher Linder
Chapter Seven: Living Betwwen Nature and Technoogy: The Suburban
Constitution of Environmentalism in Australia Aidan Davison
Part Three: Technonatural Present-Futures
Chapter Eight: The Property Boundaries/Boundary Properties in Technonatural
Studies: "Inventing the Future" Timothy W. Luke
Chapter Nine: Fluid Architectures: Ecologies of Hybrid Urbanism Simon Guy
Chapter Ten: A Post-industrial Green Economy: The New Productive Forces and
the Crisis of the Academic Left Brian Milani
Contributors
Index
Contributors
Aidan Davison is a lecturer in human geography and environmental studies at
the University of Tasmania. His interdisciplinary research interests arise
at intersections of socio-cultural themes of nature, technology, and
sustainability. The author of Technology and the Contested Meanings of
Sustainability (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001), he has published many
articles and book chapters on topics such as public perceptions of
biotechnology, Australian environmentalism, and education for
sustainability.
Simon Guy is a professor of architecture at the University of Manchester.
His research aims to critically understand the co-evolution of design and
development strategies and socio-economic processes shaping cities. His
publications include (with S. Moore) Sustainable Architectures: Cultures
and Natures in Europe and North America (Oxford: Spon, 2005) and (with
Elizabeth Shove) A Sociology of Energy, Buildings, and the Environment:
Constructing Knowledge (London: Routledge, 2000).
Steve Hinchliffe is a reader in environmental geography and director of
research for geography at the Open University. He works on the geographies
of nature, non-humans, and environments. He is author and editor of
numerous books and articles on issues ranging from risk and food to
biosecurity, urban ecologies, and nature conservation. His research focuses
on the "making of things in practices" and draws together insights from
science and technology studies (STS) and geography. His publications
include Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, Ecologies (London:
Sage, 2007); and (with Kathryn Woodward) The Natural and the Social:
Change, Risk and Uncertainty, second edition (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004).
Fletcher Linder is an associate professor of anthropology at James Madison
University. He has studied and published across a variety of topics,
including sports and aesthetics, illness experience and care, interpersonal
violence, and environmental politics. He has conducted ethnographic,
epidemiological, urban-landscape, and community-based intervention research
in such areas as the American South, California, Canada, and Australia. He
is presently completing a monograph titled "Waiting for Arnold: Image, Body
Discipline, and Late Capitalism."
Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg,
Virginia. He also is the Program Chair for Government and International
Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, and founding
Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Social Theory
(ASPECT) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia
Tech.His publications include Capitalism, Democracy and Ecology: Departing
from Marx (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999); The Politics of
Cyber Space (co-edited with Chris Toulouse- New York: Routledge, 1998); and
Eco Critique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy and Culture
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). The author of more than
150 journal articles and edited book chapters, he writes extensively on the
politics of museums as well environmental politics, international affairs,
and social theory.
Mike Michael is a professor of sociology of science and technology, and
director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, in
the sociology department, Goldsmiths, University of London. His research is
concerned with a number of areas, notably the public understanding of
science; the sociology of mundane technologies; the sociology of biomedical
innovation; the sociology of everyday life; animals and society; and
materiality and sociality. He is the author of Technoscience and Everyday
Life: The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane (Bristol: Open University
Press, 2006); Science, Social Theory, and Public Knowledge (with Alan
Irwin-Bristol: Open University Press, 2003); Reconnecting Culture,
Technology, and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity (London: Routledge,
2002); and Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman, and Change
(London: Sage, 1996).
Brian Milani is an associate of the Transformative Learning Centre and
coordinator of the Business and Environment Program at York University's
Faculty of Environmental Studies. He is author of Designing the Green
Economy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and a member of the
Coalition for a Green Economy. His focus for more than two decades has been
on creating grassroots ecological alternatives through community
development, construction, education, and general trouble making. He was
co-founder of Green City Construction and is the director of Toronto's
long-running course on green economic alternatives, "The Green Economy at
the Labour Education Centre," featuring Toronto's cutting-edge
eco-innovators.He has also been involved with green labour activities at
the Labour Council of Toronto and Carpenters Local 27.
Peter Oosterveer is a senior lecturer in environmental policy in the
Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University. He has published
extensively on globalization and the sustainability of food production and
consumption; the labelling and certification of food; environmental policy
and management in Africa; and social theory and "a sociology of flows."
Erik Swyngedouw is a professor of geography at the University of
Manchester's School of Environment and Development. From the late 1980s
until 2006 he taught at Oxford University, latterly as Professor of
Geography, and was a Fellow of St. Peter's College. His research focuses on
political-economic analysis of contemporary capitalism. He has produced
several major works on economic globalization, regional development,
finance, and urbanization. Recently his interests have turned to
political-ecological themes and the transformation of nature, notably water
issues, in Ecuador, Spain, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe. His
publications include Globalizations (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2004); Social Power and the Urbanization of Water- Flows of Power (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004); and (with F. Moulaert and A. Rodriguez,
eds.), The Globalized City: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization
in European Cities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Julie Sze is associate professor of American studies at the University of
California, Davis, as well as the founding director of the Environmental
Justice project for UC Davis's John Muir Institute for the Environment.
Sze's book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and
Environmental Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize,
awarded annually to the best published book in American studies. Sze's
research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality;
culture and environment; race, gender, and power; and community health and
activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and
air polution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer, and
on environmental justice novels and cultural production.
Sarah Whatmore is a professor of geography and director of the
International Graduate School at the Oxford University Centre for the
Environment/ School of Geography. Her research focuses on relations between
people and the material world, particularly the living world, and the
spatial habits of thought that inform the ways in which these relations are
imagined and practised in the conduct of science, governance, and everyday
life. She has published widely on the theoretical and political
implications of these questions in the fields of agriculture and food; land
rights and land-use planning; and biodiversity and biotechnology. These
themes are brought together in her most recent books: Hybrid Geographies:
Natures Cultures Spaces (London: Sage, 2002); Using Social Theory: Thinking
Through Research (co-edited with Michael Pryke and Gillian Rose- London:
Sage, 2003); and Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts, 2 vols. (co-edited
with Nigel Thrift- London: Routledge, 2004). She received the Cuthbert Peek
award from the RGS/IBG in 2003 for "innovative contributions to the
understanding of nature-society relations."
Damian F.White is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of
History, Philosophy, and Social Science at the Rhode Island School of
Design (RISD). Prior to coming to RISD, he was an assistant professor of
sociology at James Madison University; a post-doctoral research fellow in
the Department of Innovation Studies, University of East London, working on
the European Union project "Optimising the Public Understanding of
Science"; and a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of
London. He has published articles on the historical relations between human
societies and nature; ecotechnology and the "green industrial revolution";
the "production of nature" debate; anti-environmentalism; and the
libertarian and anti-authoritarian traditions of the political left. He is
the author of Murray Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (London: Pluto Press,
2008) and, with Alan Rudy and Brian J. Gareau, the author of The
Environment, Nature and Social Theory (London: Palgrave Macmillan,
forthcoming).
Chris Wilbert is a senior lecturer in tourism and geography in AIBS at
Anglia Ruskin University, England. He has published articles on animal
geographies, political ecology, climate change and leisure/tourism. He is
co-editor (with Chris Philo) of Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New
Geographies of Human-Animal Relations (London and New York: Routledge,
2000) and Killing Animals (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006)
with the Animal Studies Group. Recent articles have focused on the politics
of avian flu in southeast Asia in Focas: Forum on Contemporary Art &
Society 6 (Special Issue on Regional Animalities, 2007), and on crime scene
tourism (with Rikke Hansen) in the book Strange Spaces: Explorations into
Mediated Obscurity edited by André Jansson and Amanda Lagerkvist
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).
Places in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Damian F. White and Chris
Wilbert
Introduction: Inhabiting Technonatural Space/Times Damian F. White and
Chris Wilbert
Part One: Conceptualizing Technonatural Time/Spaces
Chapter One: Governing Global Environmental Flows: Ecological Modernization
in Technonatural Time/Spaces Peter Oosterveer
Chapter Two: Circulations and Metabolisms: (Hybrid) Natures and (Cyborgs)
Cities Erik Swyngedouw
Chapter Three: The Cellphone-in-the-Countryside: On Some of the Ironic
Spatialities of Technonature Mike Michael
Chapter Four: Living Cities: Towards a Politics of Conviviality Steve
Hinchcliffe and Sarah Whatmore
Part Two: Experiencing Technonatural Cultures
Chapter Five: Boundaries and Border Wars: DES, Technology, and
Environmental Justice Julie Sze
Chapter Six: Critical Mass: How Built Bodies Can Help Forge Environmental
Futures Fletcher Linder
Chapter Seven: Living Betwwen Nature and Technoogy: The Suburban
Constitution of Environmentalism in Australia Aidan Davison
Part Three: Technonatural Present-Futures
Chapter Eight: The Property Boundaries/Boundary Properties in Technonatural
Studies: "Inventing the Future" Timothy W. Luke
Chapter Nine: Fluid Architectures: Ecologies of Hybrid Urbanism Simon Guy
Chapter Ten: A Post-industrial Green Economy: The New Productive Forces and
the Crisis of the Academic Left Brian Milani
Contributors
Index
Contributors
Aidan Davison is a lecturer in human geography and environmental studies at
the University of Tasmania. His interdisciplinary research interests arise
at intersections of socio-cultural themes of nature, technology, and
sustainability. The author of Technology and the Contested Meanings of
Sustainability (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001), he has published many
articles and book chapters on topics such as public perceptions of
biotechnology, Australian environmentalism, and education for
sustainability.
Simon Guy is a professor of architecture at the University of Manchester.
His research aims to critically understand the co-evolution of design and
development strategies and socio-economic processes shaping cities. His
publications include (with S. Moore) Sustainable Architectures: Cultures
and Natures in Europe and North America (Oxford: Spon, 2005) and (with
Elizabeth Shove) A Sociology of Energy, Buildings, and the Environment:
Constructing Knowledge (London: Routledge, 2000).
Steve Hinchliffe is a reader in environmental geography and director of
research for geography at the Open University. He works on the geographies
of nature, non-humans, and environments. He is author and editor of
numerous books and articles on issues ranging from risk and food to
biosecurity, urban ecologies, and nature conservation. His research focuses
on the "making of things in practices" and draws together insights from
science and technology studies (STS) and geography. His publications
include Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, Ecologies (London:
Sage, 2007); and (with Kathryn Woodward) The Natural and the Social:
Change, Risk and Uncertainty, second edition (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004).
Fletcher Linder is an associate professor of anthropology at James Madison
University. He has studied and published across a variety of topics,
including sports and aesthetics, illness experience and care, interpersonal
violence, and environmental politics. He has conducted ethnographic,
epidemiological, urban-landscape, and community-based intervention research
in such areas as the American South, California, Canada, and Australia. He
is presently completing a monograph titled "Waiting for Arnold: Image, Body
Discipline, and Late Capitalism."
Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg,
Virginia. He also is the Program Chair for Government and International
Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, and founding
Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Social Theory
(ASPECT) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia
Tech.His publications include Capitalism, Democracy and Ecology: Departing
from Marx (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999); The Politics of
Cyber Space (co-edited with Chris Toulouse- New York: Routledge, 1998); and
Eco Critique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy and Culture
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). The author of more than
150 journal articles and edited book chapters, he writes extensively on the
politics of museums as well environmental politics, international affairs,
and social theory.
Mike Michael is a professor of sociology of science and technology, and
director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, in
the sociology department, Goldsmiths, University of London. His research is
concerned with a number of areas, notably the public understanding of
science; the sociology of mundane technologies; the sociology of biomedical
innovation; the sociology of everyday life; animals and society; and
materiality and sociality. He is the author of Technoscience and Everyday
Life: The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane (Bristol: Open University
Press, 2006); Science, Social Theory, and Public Knowledge (with Alan
Irwin-Bristol: Open University Press, 2003); Reconnecting Culture,
Technology, and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity (London: Routledge,
2002); and Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman, and Change
(London: Sage, 1996).
Brian Milani is an associate of the Transformative Learning Centre and
coordinator of the Business and Environment Program at York University's
Faculty of Environmental Studies. He is author of Designing the Green
Economy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and a member of the
Coalition for a Green Economy. His focus for more than two decades has been
on creating grassroots ecological alternatives through community
development, construction, education, and general trouble making. He was
co-founder of Green City Construction and is the director of Toronto's
long-running course on green economic alternatives, "The Green Economy at
the Labour Education Centre," featuring Toronto's cutting-edge
eco-innovators.He has also been involved with green labour activities at
the Labour Council of Toronto and Carpenters Local 27.
Peter Oosterveer is a senior lecturer in environmental policy in the
Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University. He has published
extensively on globalization and the sustainability of food production and
consumption; the labelling and certification of food; environmental policy
and management in Africa; and social theory and "a sociology of flows."
Erik Swyngedouw is a professor of geography at the University of
Manchester's School of Environment and Development. From the late 1980s
until 2006 he taught at Oxford University, latterly as Professor of
Geography, and was a Fellow of St. Peter's College. His research focuses on
political-economic analysis of contemporary capitalism. He has produced
several major works on economic globalization, regional development,
finance, and urbanization. Recently his interests have turned to
political-ecological themes and the transformation of nature, notably water
issues, in Ecuador, Spain, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe. His
publications include Globalizations (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2004); Social Power and the Urbanization of Water- Flows of Power (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004); and (with F. Moulaert and A. Rodriguez,
eds.), The Globalized City: Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization
in European Cities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Julie Sze is associate professor of American studies at the University of
California, Davis, as well as the founding director of the Environmental
Justice project for UC Davis's John Muir Institute for the Environment.
Sze's book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and
Environmental Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize,
awarded annually to the best published book in American studies. Sze's
research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality;
culture and environment; race, gender, and power; and community health and
activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and
air polution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer, and
on environmental justice novels and cultural production.
Sarah Whatmore is a professor of geography and director of the
International Graduate School at the Oxford University Centre for the
Environment/ School of Geography. Her research focuses on relations between
people and the material world, particularly the living world, and the
spatial habits of thought that inform the ways in which these relations are
imagined and practised in the conduct of science, governance, and everyday
life. She has published widely on the theoretical and political
implications of these questions in the fields of agriculture and food; land
rights and land-use planning; and biodiversity and biotechnology. These
themes are brought together in her most recent books: Hybrid Geographies:
Natures Cultures Spaces (London: Sage, 2002); Using Social Theory: Thinking
Through Research (co-edited with Michael Pryke and Gillian Rose- London:
Sage, 2003); and Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts, 2 vols. (co-edited
with Nigel Thrift- London: Routledge, 2004). She received the Cuthbert Peek
award from the RGS/IBG in 2003 for "innovative contributions to the
understanding of nature-society relations."
Damian F.White is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of
History, Philosophy, and Social Science at the Rhode Island School of
Design (RISD). Prior to coming to RISD, he was an assistant professor of
sociology at James Madison University; a post-doctoral research fellow in
the Department of Innovation Studies, University of East London, working on
the European Union project "Optimising the Public Understanding of
Science"; and a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of
London. He has published articles on the historical relations between human
societies and nature; ecotechnology and the "green industrial revolution";
the "production of nature" debate; anti-environmentalism; and the
libertarian and anti-authoritarian traditions of the political left. He is
the author of Murray Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (London: Pluto Press,
2008) and, with Alan Rudy and Brian J. Gareau, the author of The
Environment, Nature and Social Theory (London: Palgrave Macmillan,
forthcoming).
Chris Wilbert is a senior lecturer in tourism and geography in AIBS at
Anglia Ruskin University, England. He has published articles on animal
geographies, political ecology, climate change and leisure/tourism. He is
co-editor (with Chris Philo) of Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New
Geographies of Human-Animal Relations (London and New York: Routledge,
2000) and Killing Animals (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006)
with the Animal Studies Group. Recent articles have focused on the politics
of avian flu in southeast Asia in Focas: Forum on Contemporary Art &
Society 6 (Special Issue on Regional Animalities, 2007), and on crime scene
tourism (with Rikke Hansen) in the book Strange Spaces: Explorations into
Mediated Obscurity edited by André Jansson and Amanda Lagerkvist
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009).