Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations : We Were Never Western.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keskitalo, E. C. H., author.

Series:

Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

This book builds a compelling critique of 'frontier thinking' and demonstrates its pernicious amplification in contemporary human affairs. It will be of wide interest to a range of academics and students in the fields of geography, anthropology, environmental studies, sociology, political science and development studies, amongst others.

Contents:

Frontier thinking

Understanding the role of history in the present

Frontier thinking : why is a distinction drawn between close-to-nature 'communities' and 'modern civilsed' societies or states?

The role of frontier thinking in the development of the American state and society

The following thorugh of frontier myth by Turner and the wilderness movement in the US

Differences in the historical construction of development in Fennoscandian contexts

Consequence of frontier thinking - from state to individual levels

Consequences of frontier thinking on conceptions of the rural - historically and in present day

Alternative conceptions of rurality in present-day Fennoscandia

What is the social, and what do we base our policies on?

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

1-04-009972-6

1-04-009971-8

1-003-46620-6

9781003466208

OCLC:

1422555402

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.