Hybrid geographies : natures, cultures, spaces / Sarah Whatmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whatmore, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Human geography.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Human beings.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2002.

Summary:

"Hybrid Geographies is one of the most original and important contributions to our field in the last 30 years. At once immensely provocative and productive, it is written with uncommon clarity and grace, and promises to breathe new life not only into geographical inquiry but into critical practice across the spectrum" "of the humanities and social sciences - and beyond... An extraordinary achievement'"

-- Professor Derek Gregory, " ""Department of Geography, University of British Columbia"""

Hybrid Geographies critically examines the 'opposition' between nature and culture, the material and the social, as represented in scientific, environmental and popular discourses. Demonstrating that the world is not an exclusively human achievement, Hybrid Geographies reconsiders the relation between human and non-human, the social and the material, showing how they are intimately and variously linked.

Contents:

1 Introducing Hybrid Geographies 1

Section 1 Bewildering Spaces 9

2 Displacing The Wild: topologies of wildlife 12

3 Embodying The Wild: tales of becoming elephant 35

Section 2 Governing Spaces 59

4 Unsettling Australia: wormholes in territorial governance 63

5 Reinventing Possession: boundary disputes in the governance of plant genetic resources 91

Section 3 Living Spaces 117

6 Transgressing Objectivity: the monstrous topicality of 'GM' foods 120

7 Geographies of/for a more than Human World: towards a relational ethics 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-216) and indexes.

ISBN:

0761965661

076196567X

OCLC:

50941100