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Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature

Author : Mike Michael
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134635214
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature written by Mike Michael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws connections between a wide range of literature including those concerned with the environment, consumption and the body.

Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion

Author : D. Kidner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230391362
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion written by D. Kidner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.

Science, Technology And Culture

Author : Bell, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033521326X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology And Culture written by Bell, David and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear war to microwave ovens. For students in cultural studies, media studies, sociology and science and technology studies.

The Earth Has a Soul

Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556433795
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Earth Has a Soul written by Carl G. Jung and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.

Uprisings for the Earth

Author : Osprey Orielle Lake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974524597
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Uprisings for the Earth written by Osprey Orielle Lake and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uprisings for the Earth delves into a new kinship with nature while acknowledging the treasures of urban life and the unique stake each person has in resolving critical and timely challenges. While avoiding doomsday scenarios, Lake offers a frank inquiry into a variety of causes leading to our current global peril while also providing a deep well of hope and profound insight. She weaves together history, ecology, culture, governance, women's leadership and the arts to map out an integrated approach to working in partnership with nature while creating a more just and sustainable future. Her wisdom, lyrical style, and thorough research frame chapters such as ?Around the Fire: From Global Warming to a Renewed Hearth”, ?Anthem to Water”, ?Democracy Ancient and Modern” and ?Honor the Women.” Lake takes us along wild rivers as she explores water conservation and the mysteries of water science; sits us around a fire along with great minds of past and present to contemplate the climate crisis; and takes us to several continents where we navigate deeper into history of culture and land. Consider this book required reading for its inspiration, innovation and hope for the Earth and future generations.

Spiritual Ecology

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
ISBN 13 : 1855843056
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Ecology written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we face an increasing number of challenges connected to our environment - from climate change and extreme weather patterns to deforestation, threats to animal species and ongoing crises in farming. Hardly a day goes by without further alarming reports. How are we to respond - particularly if we wish to take a broader, spiritual view of these events? Today we face an increasing number of challenges connected to our environment - from climate change and extreme weather patterns to deforestation, threats to animal species and ongoing crises in farming. Hardly a day goes by without further alarming reports. How are we to respond - particularly if we wish to take a broader, spiritual view of these events? In the extracts compiled in this volume, presented here with commentary and notes by Matthew Barton, Steiner speaks about human perception, the earth, water, plants, animals, insects, agriculture and natural catastrophes. Spiritual Ecology offers a wealth of original thought and spiritual insight for anyone who cares about the future of the earth and humanity.

Nature and Culture

Author : Sarah Pilgrim
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849776458
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Culture written by Sarah Pilgrim and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control nature. This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The international team of authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice. While conserving nature alongside human cultures presents unique challenges, this book forcefully shows that any hope for saving biological diversity is predicated on a concomitant effort to appreciate and protect cultural diversity.

Car Cultures

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100018143X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Car Cultures written by Daniel Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who assumes that a car is simply a means to get from point A to point B, or who even thinks that they know what a car is, should read this book. Profoundly shaped by culture, the car gives rise to a wide range of emotions, from guilt about the environment in the UK to aboriginal concerns with car corpses, to struggles to keep the creatures alive with everything but the proper spare parts in West Africa. Cars and their landscapes prove central to human life from its most intimate to the widest sense of global crisis, and are capable of inspiring epic passions. From road rage in Western Europe to the struggles of cab driving in Africa to the emergence of Black identity in the US, this book examines the essential humanity of the car, which includes the jealousies, gender differences, fears and moralities that cars give rise to. Firmly grounded in detailed ethnographic and historical scholarship, this is the first book to provide an informed sense of cars as one of the most familiar and significant forms of material culture.

Designing Modern Childhoods

Author : Marta Gutman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813541956
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Designing Modern Childhoods written by Marta Gutman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald's Happy Meal.

Technonatures

Author : Damian F. White
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554581764
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Technonatures written by Damian F. White and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation for the current malaise of the “politics of ecology” is that we increasingly find ourselves negotiating “technonatural” space/times. International contributors map the political ecologies of our technonatural present and indicate possible paths for technonatural futures. The term “technonatures” is in debt to a long line of environmental cultural theory from Raymond Williams onwards, problematizing the idea that a politics of the environment can be usefully grounded in terms of the rhetoric of defending the pure, the authentic, or an idealized past solely in terms of the ecological or the natural. In using the term “technonatures” as an organizing myth and metaphor for thinking about the politics of nature in contemporary times, this collection seeks to explore one increasingly pronounced dimension of the social natures discussion. Technonatures highlights a growing range of voices considering the claim that we are not only inhabiting diverse social natures but that within such natures our knowledge of our worlds is ever more technologically mediated, produced, enacted, and contested.

Mobility, Space and Culture

Author : Peter Merriman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136903380
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Mobility, Space and Culture written by Peter Merriman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to rethink the relationship between movement, embodied practices, space and place. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon theoretical and empirical work from across the social sciences and humanities to provide a critical evaluation of the relationship between 'mobility' and 'place'/'site', reformulating places as in process, open, and dynamic spatial formations. Merriman draws upon post-structuralist writings on space, practice and society to demonstrate how movement is not simply practised or experienced in relation to space and time, but gives rise to rhythms, forces, atmospheres, affects and materialities which are often more crucial to embodied apprehensions of events than sensibilities of spatiality and temporality. He draws upon detailed empirical research on experiences of, and social reactions to, driving in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain to trace how the motor-car became associated with sensations of movement-space and enmeshed with debates about embodiment, health, visuality, gender and politics. The book will be essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying mobility in sociology, geography, cultural studies, politics, transport studies, and history.

Making Digital Cultures

Author : Martin Hand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317102495
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Making Digital Cultures written by Martin Hand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people in the West or global North now live in a culture of 24/7 instant messaging, iPods and MP3s, streamed content, blogs, ubiquitous digital images and Facebook. But they are also surrounded by even more paper, books, telephone calls and material objects of one kind or another. The juxtaposition and proliferation of older and newer technologies is striking. Making Digital Cultures brings together recent theorizing of the 'digital age' with empirical studies of how institutions embrace these technologies in relation to older established technological objects, processes and practices. It asks how relations between 'analogue' and 'digital' are conceptualized and configured both in theory and inside the public library, the business organization and the archive. With its direct engagement with new media theory, science and technology studies, and cultural sociology, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of media and communication and science and technology studies.

The Nature Principle

Author : Richard Louv
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 161620141X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Nature Principle written by Richard Louv and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive environmentalism and sustainability, they will evolve into a larger movement that will touch every part of society. This New Nature Movement taps into the restorative powers of the natural world to boost mental acuity and creativity; promote health and wellness; build smarter and more sustainable businesses, communities, and economies; and ultimately strengthen human bonds. Supported by groundbreaking research, anecdotal evidence, and compelling personal stories, Louv offers renewed optimism while challenging us to rethink the way we live.

Technological Economy

Author : Don Slater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134307136
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Technological Economy written by Don Slater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new collection, leading experts explore the multidisciplinary connections between technology and economy, drawing on new convergences between economic sociology and science and technology studies. Through theoretical and empirical studies, the authors investigate: * economics and economic knowledges as technologies * the economies as socio-technical arrangements * the nature of innovation * the role of technological mediations in representing and performing economies. This revealing book, ideal for those with an interest in contemporary social theory, interrogates the evidence for the contemporary claims about the emergence of the ‘new economy’ and ‘knowledge-based economies’ and sheds new light on the relationship between economy and culture.

The Culture of Science

Author : Martin W. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136701400
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Science written by Martin W. Bauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its influence on particular developments (e.g. stem cell research); and the demarcation of science from non-science as well as issues including the ‘incommensurability’ versus ‘cognitive polyphasia’ and the cognitive (in)tolerance of different systems of knowledge.

Cultural Bodies

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470776943
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Bodies written by Helen Thomas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. Breaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences Draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments Constitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them Brings together an international and multi-disciplinary team of scholars

The Body

Author : Mariam Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100014318X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Body written by Mariam Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.