Following the industrial revolution and post- war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which socio- political regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states.…mehr
Following the industrial revolution and post- war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which socio- political regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg is a Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany, where he coordinates the working group 'Art of Judgement'. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge, UK, and has worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, and the University of Trento, Italy. Matthew Kelly teaches history at Northumbria University, UK, where he is helping to establish the environmental humanities as a broad area of research and teaching within the university. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, UK, and a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany. Claudia Leal holds a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She was a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, and Co-president of the Latin American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History. Emily Wakild teaches Latin American and Environmental History at Boise State University in Idaho, USA. Her current projects include a primer on teaching environmental history and a monograph on the social and ecological regions of Amazonia and Patagonia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1.The Export of the American National Park Idea in an Age of Empire: The Philippines, 1898 1940 Ian Tyrrell 2.Protecting Patagonia: Science, Conservation and the Pre-History of the Nature State on a South American Frontier, 1903-1934 Emily Wakild 3.Another way to preserve: hunting bans, biosecurity, and the brown bear in Italy, 1930-1960 Wilko Graf von Hardenberg 4. Conservation Politics in the Madras Presidency: Maintaining the Lord Wenlock Downs of the Nilgiris Grasslands, South India, as a National Park,1930-1950 Siddhartha Krishnan 5.Negotiating the Nature State Beyond the Parks: Conservation in 20th Century North-Central Namibia Emmanuel Kreike 6. Conventional thinking and the fragile birth of the Nature State in post-war Britain. Matthew Kelly 7. Behind the Scenes and Out in the Open: Making Colombian National Parks in the 1960s and 70s Claudia Leal 8. Ordering the Borderland:Settlement and Removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s Frederico Freitas 9. Discovering China's Tropical Rainforests: Shifting Approaches to People and Nature in the late Twentieth Century Michael Hathaway 10. Nature, State, and Conservation in the Danube Delta: Turning Fishermen into Outlaws Stefan Dorondel and Veronica Mitroi
Introduction 1.The Export of the American National Park Idea in an Age of Empire: The Philippines, 1898 1940 Ian Tyrrell 2.Protecting Patagonia: Science, Conservation and the Pre-History of the Nature State on a South American Frontier, 1903-1934 Emily Wakild 3.Another way to preserve: hunting bans, biosecurity, and the brown bear in Italy, 1930-1960 Wilko Graf von Hardenberg 4. Conservation Politics in the Madras Presidency: Maintaining the Lord Wenlock Downs of the Nilgiris Grasslands, South India, as a National Park,1930-1950 Siddhartha Krishnan 5.Negotiating the Nature State Beyond the Parks: Conservation in 20th Century North-Central Namibia Emmanuel Kreike 6. Conventional thinking and the fragile birth of the Nature State in post-war Britain. Matthew Kelly 7. Behind the Scenes and Out in the Open: Making Colombian National Parks in the 1960s and 70s Claudia Leal 8. Ordering the Borderland:Settlement and Removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s Frederico Freitas 9. Discovering China's Tropical Rainforests: Shifting Approaches to People and Nature in the late Twentieth Century Michael Hathaway 10. Nature, State, and Conservation in the Danube Delta: Turning Fishermen into Outlaws Stefan Dorondel and Veronica Mitroi
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