New natures : joining environmental history with science and technology studies /

New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents historical studies that engage with key STS theories, offering mode...

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Other Authors: Jørgensen, Dolly, 1972-, Jørgensen, Finn Arne, 1975-, Pritchard, Sara B., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Joining environmental history with science and technology studies : promises, challenges, and contributions / Sara B. Pritchard
  • The natural history of early northeastern America : an inexact science / Anya Zilberstein
  • Farming and not knowing : agnotology meets environmental history / Frank Uekotter
  • Environmentalists on both sides : enactments in the California rigs-to-reefs debate / Dolly Jørgensen
  • The backbone of everyday environmentalism : cultural scripting and technological systems / Finn Arne Jørgensen
  • The soil doctor : Hugh Hammond Bennett, soil conservation, and the search for a democratic science / Kevin C. Armitage
  • Communicating knowledge : the Swedish mercury group and vernacular science, 1965-1972 / Michael Egan
  • Signals in the forest : cultural boundaries of science in Białowieża, Poland / Eunice Blavascunas
  • The production and circulation of standardized Karakul sheep and frontier settlement in the empires of Hitler, Mussolini, and Salazar / Tiago Saraiva
  • Trading spaces : transferring energy and organizing power in the nineteenth-century Atlantic grain trade / Thomas D. Finger
  • Situated yet mobile : examining the environmental history of Arctic ecological science / Stephen Bocking
  • White Mountain Apache boundary-work as an instrument of ecopolitical liberation and landscape change / David Tomblin
  • NEOecology : the solar system's emerging environmental history and politics / Valerie A. Olson
  • Epilogue : Preservation in the age of entanglement : STS and the history of future urban nature / Sverker Sörlin.