Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
FIGURES......Page 7
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
FOREWORD......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
Part 1 INTRODUCTION......Page 14
NATURE AT THE MILLENIUM......Page 15
THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE......Page 18
Marx and nature......Page 19
First World agrarian political economy......Page 22
Third World political ecology......Page 23
New directions......Page 25
Historicizing appearances: nature and representation in late modernity......Page 27
Effects of power and the domain of politics: constructing and contesting nature’s materialization......Page 32
NETWORKS, ACTANTS AND TECHNOSCIENCE: BUILDING HYBRIDS......Page 37
The social construction of scientific knowledge......Page 39
Nature, science and the construction of “society”......Page 40
Amodernity and the analytics and politics of quasi-objects......Page 43
CONCLUSION: TOWARD A POLITICAL THEORY OF SOCIAL NATURE......Page 45
NOTES......Page 47
REFERENCES......Page 50
Part 2 CAPITALISING AND ENFRAMING NATURE......Page 55
INTRODUCTION......Page 58
NATURE AS AN ACCUMULATION STRATEGY......Page 60
CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM......Page 63
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION......Page 66
RESTORATION AND ITS LIMITS......Page 68
PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION AS GATEWAYS TO PRIVATIZATION......Page 69
NOTES......Page 72
REFERENCES......Page 73
INTRODUCTION......Page 76
DEFENDED BORDERS: THE BODY AS MACHINE......Page 77
BLURRED BOUNDARIES: THE BODY AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM......Page 80
MANAGING “OUR ROOTS IN THE WORLD”......Page 85
CORRELATIONS......Page 88
CAUTIONS......Page 89
NOTES......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 93
INTRODUCTION: EUGENICS AND THE GENOME PROJECT......Page 96
ORIGIN STORIES......Page 97
EUGENIC ENTHUSIASMS......Page 100
CRITICISING CONSUMER EUGENICISM......Page 102
BRITISH CRITICISM OF THE NEW GENETICS......Page 103
THE PECULIARITY OF BRITISH SCIENCE FRICTIONS?......Page 105
MANAGING UK CRITICISM......Page 106
MOVING ON......Page 107
REFERENCES......Page 109
INTRODUCTION......Page 111
THE “NATURE” OF URBANIZATION......Page 112
Histories of urban natures......Page 114
Modernizing urban planning after Fordism......Page 119
Flexcity: urbanization and the new urban order......Page 123
New residential spaces......Page 127
CONCLUSION......Page 130
NOTES......Page 132
REFERENCES......Page 134
INTRODUCTION......Page 138
WISE USE AND THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE......Page 139
WISE USE, COMPETITION AND CLASS CONFLICT......Page 141
Wise Use and radical marketization......Page 142
Wise Use and social protection......Page 143
WISE USE AND THE STATE......Page 144
Federal lands......Page 145
Property rights......Page 146
THE DISCOURSE OF WISE USE......Page 147
WISE USE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT......Page 149
CONCLUSION: WISE USE AND ENVIRONMENTALISM......Page 151
NOTES......Page 154
REFERENCES......Page 157
7 THE NATURE OF DENATURALIZED CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 162
NOTES......Page 175
Part 3 ACTORS, NETWORKS AND THE POLITICS OF HYBRIDITY......Page 181
INTRODUCTION......Page 185
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM......Page 187
SAVING THE FOREST......Page 194
GLOBAL WARMING......Page 197
NOTES......Page 201
REFERENCES......Page 202
INTRODUCTION......Page 206
Nature as historical agent......Page 208
Agricultural narratives......Page 212
Nature as limits, nature as process......Page 214
Agricultural narratives: ecoregulation and the labour process......Page 216
AGRI-CULTURE AS A NATURE-SOCIETY HYBRID......Page 219
A history of agricultural quasi-objects: the corn collective......Page 221
BSE: a co-production denied......Page 223
Anorexia/anorectic redux: hunger and metabolism......Page 226
CONCLUSION......Page 228
NOTES......Page 229
REFERENCES......Page 230
WILL POLITICAL ECOLOGY PASS AWAY?......Page 233
IS POLITICAL ECOLOGY AN ORIGINAL TYPE OF JUSTIFICATION?......Page 235
SHOULD WE ABANDON THE PRINCIPLE OF COMMON HUMANITY?......Page 238
What ecology believes it ought to do without managing to......Page 240
What ecology (happily) does extremely well......Page 241
WHAT IS COMMON IN THE EXPRESSION ‘COMMON HUMANITY’?......Page 242
AN ALTERNATIVE TO MODERNISATION......Page 245
NOTES......Page 248
REFERENCES......Page 252
INTRODUCTION......Page 255
NATURE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE POST-DEVELOPMENT IMAGINARY......Page 258
OIL, OIL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT IN POST-COLONIAL NIGERIA......Page 261
BLACK GOLD: THE NATURAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OGONILAND......Page 266
DRILLING FIELDS: CONSTRUCTING NATURE, COMMUNITY AND ALTERITY IN OGONILAND......Page 270
POST-COLONIAL GREEN......Page 273
NOTES......Page 276
REFERENCES......Page 278
Part 4 AFTERWORD......Page 281
INTRODUCTION......Page 282
BEYOND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM: SOKAL’S TAUNT AND THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE......Page 283
THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF NATURE?......Page 290
NOTES......Page 294
REFERENCES......Page 295
INDEX......Page 296