Ramutsindela: The Politics of Nature and Science i
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Ramutsindela: The Politics of Nature and Science i

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Ramutsindela: The Politics of Nature and Science i

About this book

This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-temporal juxtaposition is lacking in current research on political ecology while the politics of science appears marginal to critical scholarship on social nature. Specifically, the book examines power relations in nature-related activities, demonstrates conditions under which nature and science are politicised, and also accounts for political interests and struggles over nature in its various forms. The ecological, socio-political and economic dimensions of nature cannot be ignored when dealing with present-day environmental issues. Nature conservation regulations are concerned with the management of flora and fauna as much as with humans. Various chapters in the book pay attention to the ways in which nature, science and politics are interrelated and also co-constitutive of each other. They highlight that power relations are naturalised through science and science-related institutions and projects such as museums, botanical gardens, wetlands, parks and nature reserves.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. Contents
  6. PART I. Reflections on the Politics of Natureand Science
  7. PART II. Institutionalised Scientific Power
  8. PART III. Plants and Power
  9. PART IV. Impoverished Environmentalism
  10. PART IV. Impoverished Environmentalism
  11. PART V. Interventions
  12. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  13. Index
  14. Back Cover