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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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.