00000cam a22000008i 4500 UP-1685594773861938630 Buklod 20140106102337.0 g||| | || || ta 140106s2014 xx d r |||| u| 9780415545501 (iLib)UPBAG-00012432856 BD 581 C37 2014 Castree, Noel 1968- Making sense of nature representation, politics and democracy Noel Castree. London Routledge 2014. xxv, 347 p. ill. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.[326]-344) and index. Cover -- Half Title; Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acronyms -- Permissions -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Nature is here, there and everywhere -- Part I: Making Sense of Sense Making -- How We Make Sense of (What We Call) Nature -- Aims and Objectives -- What this book is not about -- What this book is about -- Denaturalising nature -- The Idea of Nature -- What is nature? -- Where is nature? -- When is nature? -- Nature's Collateral Concepts -- The Dualisms of Western Thought -- Discourse and discourses -- Contemporary Western discourse and its antonyms -- The Dualisms of Western Thought Metonymy: The 'Nature Effect' -- Summary; Endnotes -- Representing Nature -- Nature's Spokespersons: Epistemic Communities and Epistemic Dependence -- Re-Presenting 'Nature' -- Representation, reference and representatives -- Representations: constructed and political -- The Nature of 'Representation': Four Issues -- Representation = language?; Representation = mimesis? -- A focus on representation occludes the non-representational? -- First-hand experience versus second-hand representation? -- Summary -- Endnotes -- Governing Society with Reference to the Natural How Communication Works Genres of communication and modes of representation -- Subjects and self-hood -- Epistemic Communities from the Inside Out -- Circulating and Mutating Reference -- Shared meanings and semantic repertoires -- Translating between communicative genres and sub-genres -- Scepticism and the Governance of Nature's Representations -- Governing epistemic dependence -- Epistemic Dependence and Semiotic Democracy -- Substantive and formal democracy; The value of epistemic diversity -- Summary -- Endnotes -- Part II: Representations and Their Effects-- Unnatural Constructions -- What's a 'Forest'? Buried epistemologies -- The Nature within: Rethinking Human Identity the Genetic Way -- The power of molecular biology -- Molecularising identity; Mapping, quantifying and differentiating genes -- Down and Dirty: Getting in Touch with 'Real Nature'? -- The nature of Fraser Island; Dingoes, danger and death -- In What Sense is 'Nature' a 'Construction'? -- Summary -- Endnotes -- 5. Enclosing Nature: Borders, Boundaries and Transgressions -- Borders and Boundaries -- From Nature to Artifice: Intellectual Property and Biological Invention -- Patents and biotechnological manufactures Conceptual quarantine: keeping nature out of invention Degrees of 'un/natural difference': purification is complicated and contentious; Beastly Behavior: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide; The Enumclaw case: outlawing animal intercourse -- Respectable identities and proper behavior: dividing sex in two -- Leaks and Transgressions: Resisting the Compulsions of 'Either/Or' -- Beyond binaries in sex and gender: representing 'trans' identities and politics -- Genre blending and bending -- Summary -- Endnotes -- The Uses of Nature: Social Power and Representation -- The Nature of Social Power -- Definitions. We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs are among those clamouring for our attention. But are we empowered by all this knowledge or is our dependence on various communities allowing our thoughts, sentiments and activities to be unduly governed by others?Making Sense of Nature shows that what we call 'nature' is made sense of for us in ways that make it central to social order, social change and social dissent. By utilising in. Philosophy of nature. Epistemics. Earth sciences. Human geography. UPBAG KTRC BD 581 C37 2014 Book