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New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies

by Dolly Jorgensen
New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies

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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 richly developed historical studies that explicitly engageand#160;with key STS theories, offeringand#160;models for how these theories can helpand#160;crystallizeand#160;central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparativeand#160;analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.

The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; constructions of environmental expertise, showing how expertise is evaluated according to categories, categorization, hierarchies, and the power afforded to expertise; and lastly, an analysis of networks, mobilities, and boundaries, demonstrating how knowledge is both diffused and constrained and what this means for humans and the environment.

Contributors explore these themes by discussing a wide array of topics, including farming, forestry, indigenous land management,and#160;ecological science,and#160;pollution,and#160;trade, energy, and outer space, among others. The epilogue, by the eminent environmental historian Sverker Sandouml;rlin, views the deep entanglements of humans and nature in contemporary urbanity and argues we should preserve this relationship in the future. Additionally, the volume looks to extend the valuable conversation between STS and environmental history to wider communities that include policy makers and other stakeholders, as many of the issues raised can inform future courses of action.

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and#147;Timely and important. A welcome volume that seizes upon an emerging interest and body of scholarship at the intersections of environmental history and science and technology studies, particularly among a younger generation of scholars in both fields.and#8221;

and#151;Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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"Overall, an interesting and challenging read."

--Choice Magazine

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and#147;Both individually and collectively, this is a fine and coherently organized set of essays. The authorsand#8217; usage of STS theory to illuminate their empirical cases are interesting in and of themselves, but also suggestive of ways that other environmental historians might profitably deepen and expand their own research through judicious adaptations of theory.and#8221;

--ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology

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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 richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking.

The chapters discuss topics including farming, forestry, indigenous land management, ecological science, pollution, trade, energy, and outer space, among others. The epilogue, by the eminent environmental historian Sverker Sandouml;rlin, views the deep entanglements of humans and nature in contemporary urbanity and argues we should preserve this relationship in the future.


About the Author

Dolly Jandoslash;rgensen is a researcher in the department of ecology and environmental science at Umeandaring; University, Sweden.

Finn Arne Jandoslash;rgensen is associate senior lecturer of history of technology and environment at Umeandaring; University, Sweden.

Sara B. Pritchard is assistant professor in the department of science and technology studies at Cornell University.and#160;


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ISBN:
9780822962427
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/01/2013
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Language:
English
Pages:
292
Height:
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Width:
6.10IN
Thickness:
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LCCN:
2013007084
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Yes
Author:
Dolly Jorgensen
Author:
Sara B. Pritchard
Author:
Finn Arne Jorgensen
Author:
Dolly Jørgensen
Ed:
Dolly J?rgensen
Ed:
Finn Arne J?rgensen
Subject:
Science Reference-Technology

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