Locating Value (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Application and Critique
Redaktion: Saville, Samantha; Hoskins, Gareth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers value as it is theorised, practiced, and critiqued from varied disciplinary perspectives. Value's growing currency within social, cultural, and environmental policy is the latest manifestation of a long running faith in this concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317528708
• Artikelnr.: 58289172

Autorenporträt

Sam Saville is currently an ESRC postdoctoral research fellow in Human geography at Aberystwyth University and is extending her doctoral work on value and environmental politics in Svalbard. Her research and publications span interests in polar geography, political ecology, climate change and rural globalization. Gareth Hoskins is senior lecturer in Geography at Aberystwyth University where he teaches on a variety of topics including urban geography, the politics of memory, heritage, and material culture. His publications involve case studies in the United States, United Kingdom and South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1. Locating Value: An Introduction; Part I: Knowing Value 2. Spectral geometries: value sub specie spatii and sensuous supersensibility; 3. Locating heritage value; 4. Making values visible and real, but not necessarily monetised; 5. "There's no such thing as a unit of biodiversity": contesting value and biodiversity offsetting in England; 6. Commensuration as value making: transforming nature in English biodiversity offsetting under the DEFRA metric; Part II: Spacing Value 7. Regimes of value in a Chicago market; 8. Urban planning practice and the transformation of value in China: Evidence from the city of Yangzhou; 9. Locating value in the Anthropocene: baselines and the contested nature of invasive plants; 10. "And what do you do with five-hundred million stars?" Assessment of darkness and the starry sky, values and integration in regional planning; 11. Value and diminishment: Listing State Park closures, the 2011 attempt to meet General Fund reductions in California; Part III: Practicing Value 12. Unsettled value: re-identifying tobacco agriculture as heritage in eastern Taiwan; 13. Locating value(s) in political ecologies of knowledge: The East Svalbard management plan; 14. Locating value in food value chains; 15. Private finance evaluation amongst REDD+ projects in Indonesia; Index