Narrating Nature
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Narrating Nature
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Author : Mara Jill Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Narrating Nature written by Mara Jill Goldman and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Social Science categories.
The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
The Roots Of Environmental Consciousness
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Author : Stephen Hussey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The Roots Of Environmental Consciousness written by Stephen Hussey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with History categories.
This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike.
German Culture And The Modern Environmental Imagination
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Author : Sabine Wilke
language : en
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Release Date : 2015-03-20
German Culture And The Modern Environmental Imagination written by Sabine Wilke and has been published by Hotei Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book tells the story of the rise of the modern German environmental imagination with particular emphasis on its narrative and visual components.
Locating Nature
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Author : Usha Natarajan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-29
Locating Nature written by Usha Natarajan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Law categories.
For those troubled by environmental harm on a global scale and its deeply unequal effects, this book explains how international law structures ecological degradation and environmental injustice while claiming to protect the environment. It identifies how central legal concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, territory, development, environment, labour and human rights make inaccurate and unsustainable assumptions about the natural world and systemically reproduce environmental degradation and injustice. To avert socioecological crises, we must not only unpack but radically rework our understandings of nature and its relationship with law. We propose more sustainable and equitable ways to remake law's relationship with nature by drawing on diverse disciplines and sociocultural traditions that have been marginalized within international law. Influenced by Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), postcolonialism and decoloniality, and inspired by Indigenous knowledges, cosmology, mythology and storytelling, this book lays the groundwork for an epistemological shift in the way humans conceptualize the relationship between law and nature.
Nature S Serial Story
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Author : Edward Payson Roe
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
Nature S Serial Story written by Edward Payson Roe and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Nature's Serial Story" by Edward Payson Roe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Natural Storyteller
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Author : Georgiana Keable
language : en
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Natural Storyteller written by Georgiana Keable and has been published by Hawthorn Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Georgiana Keable introduces us to a staggering wealth of world stories all about nature and our role as humans in it. These are traditional stories that have stood the test of time. They often speak of something universal or enduring about our experience and relationship with nature. Culturally diverse and all told with great energy and panache, the stories will engage young readers and encourage them to become natural storytellers. The book includes several storymaps to help the reader think visually about stories as well as other ways to remember the different stages that make up each tale. The author also reflects on the heart of each tale, what it's about, and whether there is a way the reader can turn their own experience into a story. Each section has a practical activity that can be undertaken individually or as a group. The author's message is clear: the resources needed for Natural Storytelling are abundantly around us - nature and our imagination.
What S Nature Worth
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Author : Terre Satterfield
language : en
Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press
Release Date : 2004
What S Nature Worth written by Terre Satterfield and has been published by Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Based on interviews with a dozen prominent environmental writers, this work explores how the art of storytelling might bring new perspectives and insights to discussions regarding the "value" of nature and the environment.
Chip Chrip Hoot
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Author : Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj
language : en
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Release Date : 2017-10-05
Chip Chrip Hoot written by Vijaylakshmi Nagaraj and has been published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Have you been to a place where rivers sing songs? Have you climbed to the top of a mountain and heard the whispering pines? Have you tried to decode the hidden messages in bird calls? As Kanika and Ashok take a trip to the lush green jungles of Dandeli in Karnataka, they chance upon the Malabar pied hornbill, the hill mynah, the magpie robin, and many other birds. Up in the north, Kanika hears the ‘sounds of silence’ while hiking up the Dainkund Peak in Dalhousie. Karan, Tara, and their friends are camping in the Nilgiri Hills. They trek, collect wildflowers, do rock climbing, and listen to the sounds of nature. Never a dull moment there! This collection of charming tales will sensitize young readers towards our environment and help them appreciate nature. A must-read for those who love and cherish our beautiful world.
Nature Speaks
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Author : Kellie Robertson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-01-25
Nature Speaks written by Kellie Robertson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and durable ethical tool for premodern writers, many of whom used it to explore what it meant to be an embodied creature or to ask whether human experience is independent of the natural world in which it is forged. The history of the late medieval period can be retold as the story of how nature gained an authoritative voice only to lose it again at the onset of modernity. This distinctive voice, Kellie Robertson argues, emerged from a novel historical confluence of physics and fiction-writing. Natural philosophers and poets shared a language for talking about physical inclination, the inherent desire to pursue the good that was found in all things living and nonliving. Moreover, both natural philosophers and poets believed that representing the visible world was a problem of morality rather than mere description. Based on readings of academic commentaries and scientific treatises as well as popular allegorical poetry, Nature Speaks contends that controversy over Aristotle's natural philosophy gave birth to a philosophical poetics that sought to understand the extent to which the human will was necessarily determined by the same forces that shaped the rest of the material world. Modern disciplinary divisions have largely discouraged shared imaginative responses to this problem among the contemporary sciences and humanities. Robertson demonstrates that this earlier worldview can offer an alternative model of human-nonhuman complementarity, one premised neither on compulsory human exceptionalism nor on the simple reduction of one category to the other. Most important, Nature Speaks assesses what is gained and what is lost when nature's voice goes silent.
Introduction To Nordic Cultures
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Author : Annika Lindskog
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Introduction To Nordic Cultures written by Annika Lindskog and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Social Science categories.
Introduction to Nordic Cultures is an innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to Nordic history, cultures and societies from medieval times to today. The textbook spans the whole Nordic region, covering historical periods from the Viking Age to modern society, and engages with a range of subjects: from runic inscriptions on iron rings and stone monuments, via eighteenth-century scientists, Ibsen’s dramas and turn-of-the-century travel, to twentieth-century health films and the welfare state, nature ideology, Greenlandic literature, Nordic Noir, migration, ‘new’ Scandinavians, and stereotypes of the Nordic. The chapters provide fundamental knowledge and insights into the history and structures of Nordic societies, while constructing critical analyses around specific case studies that help build an informed picture of how societies grow and of the interplay between history, politics, culture, geography and people. Introduction to Nordic Cultures is a tool for understanding issues related to the Nordic region as a whole, offering the reader engaging and stimulating ways of discovering a variety of cultural expressions, historical developments and local preoccupations. The textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of Scandinavian and Nordic studies, as well as students of European history, culture, literature and linguistics.