Technonatures Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-10: 1554581508

ISBN-13: 9781554581504

Edition: 2010

Authors: Damian F. White, Chris Wilbert

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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…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date: 4/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction Inhabiting Technonatural Time/Spaces




Conceptualizing Technonatural Time/Spaces



Governing Global Environmental Flows: Ecological Modernization in Technonatural Time/Spaces




Circulations and Metabolisms: (Hybrid) Natures and (Cyborg) Cities




The Cellphone-in-the-Countryside: On Some of the Ironic Spatialities of Technonatures




Living Cities: Toward a Politics of Conviviality




Experiencing Technonatural Cultures



Boundaries and Border Wars: DES, Technology, and Environmental Justice




Critical Mass: How Built Bodies Can Help Forge Environmental Futures




Living Between Nature and Technology: The Suburban Constitution of Environmentalism in Australia




Technonatural Present-Futures



The Property Boundaries/Boundary Properties in Technonature Studies: "Inventing the Future"




Fluid Architectures: Ecologies of Hybrid Urbanism




A Post-Industrial Green Economy: The New Productive Forces and the Crisis of the Academic Left



Contributors


Index