Reordering Nature

Author : Celia Deane-Drummond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567088963
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reordering Nature written by Celia Deane-Drummond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book experts in the environment, theology and science argue that the challenge posed to society by biotechnology lies not only in terms of risk/benefit analysis of individual genetic technologies and interventions, but also has implications for the way we think about human identity and our relationship to the natural world. Such a profound--they would suggest religious--challenge requires a response that is genuinely interdisciplinary in nature, a conversation that draws as much on expertise in theology and philosophy as on the natural sciences and risk assessment techniques. They argue that an adequate response must also be sociologically informed in at least two ways. First it must draw on contemporary sociological insights about contemporary cultural change, the complex role of expert knowledge in modern complex society and the specific social dynamics of contemporary technological risks. Secondly, it must endeavour to pay sensitive attention to the voice of the lay public in the current controversy over the new genetics. This book attempts to realise such an aim, as a contribution not just to academic scholarship, but also to the public debate about biotechnology and its regulation. Thus the collection includes contributions from scholars in a range of intellectual domains (indeed, many of the chapters themselves draw on more than one discipline in new and challenging ways). The book invites the reader to enter into this conversation in a creative way and come to appreciate more fully the many-sided nature of the debate.

Author : Annabelle Sabloff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638729
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reordering the Natural World written by Annabelle Sabloff and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reordering the Natural World, Annabelle Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce the conviction that we are profoundly alienated from the rest of nature. At the same time, she reveals the often disguised affinities and sense of connection urban Canadians manifest in their relations with animals and the natural world. Sabloff reflects on how the discipline of anthropology has contributed to the prevailing Western perception of a divide between nature and culture. She suggests that the present ecological crisis has resulted largely from the ways in which Western societies have construed nature as a cultural system. Since new ideas about nature may be critical in changing humanity's destructive interactions with the biosphere, Reordering the Natural World is invaluable in exploring how urban Canadians develop and sustain their current relationship with the macrocosm, and in considering whether these relationships might be altered by reconceptualizing anthropology itself as an integral part of natural history. With this unique text, Sabloff not only provides provocative insight into the study of relations between humans and the natural world, she lays the cornerstone for building an entirely new structure for the study of anthropology itself.

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greeks and the Environment written by Laura Westra and published by Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus. Recognizing that these thinkers were not confronted with the environmental degradation that threatens contemporary philosophers, the contributors to this book find that the Greeks nevertheless provide an excellent foundation for a sound theory of environmentalism.

Author : Jabez Thomas Sunderland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.AD/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unitarian written by Jabez Thomas Sunderland and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis René Beres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reordering the Planet written by Louis René Beres and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Theodore Cloak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural Order of Cultural Adoption and Loss in Trinidad written by Frank Theodore Cloak and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George J Demko
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reordering The World written by George J Demko and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994-05-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment and Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristina Spohr
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0999740687
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arctic and World Order written by Kristina Spohr and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic, long described as the world’s last frontier, is quickly becoming our first frontier—the front line in a world of more diffuse power, sharper geopolitical competition, and deepening interdependencies between people and nature. A space of often-bitter cold, the Arctic is the fastest-warming place on earth. It is humanity’s canary in the coal mine—an early warning sign of the world’s climate crisis. The Arctic “regime” has pioneered many innovative means of governance among often-contentious state and non-state actors. Instead of being the “last white dot on the map,” the Arctic is where the contours of our rapidly evolving world may first be glimpsed. In this book, scholars and practitioners—from Anchorage to Moscow, from Nuuk to Hong Kong—explore the huge political, legal, social, economic, geostrategic and environmental challenges confronting the Arctic regime, and what this means for the future of world order.

Author : Duncan Bell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881021
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reordering the World written by Duncan Bell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empire Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought—Duncan Bell sheds new light on some of the most important themes in modern imperial ideology. The book ranges widely across Victorian intellectual life and beyond. The opening essays explore the nature of liberalism, varieties of imperial ideology, the uses and abuses of ancient history, the imaginative functions of the monarchy, and fantasies of Anglo-Saxon global domination. They are followed by illuminating studies of prominent thinkers, including J. A. Hobson, L. T. Hobhouse, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Herbert Spencer, and J. R. Seeley. While insisting that liberal attitudes to empire were multiple and varied, Bell emphasizes the liberal fascination with settler colonialism. It was in the settler empire that many liberal imperialists found the place of their political dreams. Reordering the World is a significant contribution to the history of modern political thought and political theory.