The nature of the state : excavating the political ecologies of the modern state / Mark Whitehead, Rhys Jones, and Martin Jones
- Author
- Whitehead, Mark, 1975-
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Additional Creators
- Jones, Rhys, 1971- and Jones, Martin, 1970-
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- States and natures : an introduction -- Seeing double : thinking about natures and states -- The moments of nature-state relations -- Mapping the land : spatializing state nature -- Nature and the state apparatus -- Between laboratory and leviathan : technological development and the cyborg state -- Exploring post-national natures : nature in the shadow of the state.
- Summary
- The complex relationships between the state and nature remain under-theorized and relatively unexplored. Combining original research and theoretical insights The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which social scientists approach questions of socio-environmental power and offers new insights into the history of state-nature relations. - ;The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized. Despite their combined significance, however, the complex relationships that exist between.
- Report Numbers
- MYILIB_CUp
- Subject(s)
- Human geography—Political aspects
- Human ecology—Political aspects
- Political geography
- Political ecology
- Environmental policy
- Écologie humaine—Aspect politique
- Géographie politique
- Écologie politique
- Environnement—Politique gouvernementale
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Human Geography
- Politische Ökologie
- Umweltbezogenes Management
- ISBN
- 9780191515132 (electronic bk.)
0191515132 (electronic bk.)
128116447X
9781281164476
9786611164478
6611164472
9781429470759
1429470755
0191917605
9780191917608
0199271895 (Cloth)
9780199271894 (hbk.) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
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