Civilizing Nature

Author : Bernhard Gissibl,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455277

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Civilizing Nature by Bernhard Gissibl,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper Pdf

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.

Author : Bernhard Gissibl,,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455253

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Civilizing Nature by Bernhard Gissibl,,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper Pdf

Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon.

Author : Margrit Pernau,Helge Jordheim,Orit Bashkin,Christian Bailey
Publisher : Emotions in History
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198745532

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Civilizing Emotions by Margrit Pernau,Helge Jordheim,Orit Bashkin,Christian Bailey Pdf

Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the political project of the civilising process. 'Civilizing Emotions' brings out the role of emotions as an object of the civilising process.

Author : Richard J. Schneider
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571139603

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Civilizing Thoreau by Richard J. Schneider Pdf

7: Nature and the Origins of American Civilization in Cape Cod -- Part IV. America's Destiny and Ecological Succession -- 8: Thoreau and Manifest Destiny -- Works Cited -- Index

Author : George Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OXFORD:590463623

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Civilization Considered as a Science, in Relation to Its Essence, Its Elements, and Its End by George Harris Pdf

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015036782095

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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Civilization by Orestes Augustus Brownson Pdf

Author : Kavita Philip
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813533619

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Civilizing Natures by Kavita Philip Pdf

Annotation "An interdisciplinary exploration of science, nature, and race in colonial India."

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012

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The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Pdf

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Author : María Alicia Rueda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000296037

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The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren by María Alicia Rueda Pdf

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in securing independent education for Chile’s working classes in the early 20th century. Through close analysis of the textual archives and press writings, The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren offers comprehensive insight into Recabarren’s belief in education as essential to the empowerment, emancipation, and political independence of the working class, and emphasises the importance he placed on the education of workers through experiential learning in their organizations and press. By situating his work amongst broader political and educational movements occurring in Latin America in an era of imperialism, the text also demonstrates the progressive nature of Recabarren’s work and maps the development of his philosophy amid Socialist, Marxist, and Communist movements. Making an important contribution to our understanding of the aims and value of adult education in light of neoliberalism today, this text will be of interest to scholars, researchers, activists, and post-graduate students with an interest in education, social movements, and Latin America. The text also addresses key issues raised in studies of Recabarren and the history of education in Chile.

Author : Brett Bowden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226068169

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The Empire of Civilization by Brett Bowden Pdf

The term “civilization” comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as “civilized”—or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes “civilization” as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to Western standards, culminating in a liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the variety of confrontations and conquests—as well as those peoples and places excluded or swept aside—undertaken in the name of civilization. Concluding that the “West and the rest” have more commonalities than differences,this provocative and engaging bookultimately points the way toward an authentic intercivilizational dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.

Author : Christopher Powell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773585560

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Barbaric Civilization by Christopher Powell Pdf

From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions of the kind that we call "civilized." The combined forward movement of these processes channels violent struggles for social dominance into symbolic performances. But even as the civilizing process frees many subjects from the threat of direct physical force, violence accumulates behind the scenes and at the margins of the social order, kept there by a deeply habituated performance of dominance and subordination called deferentiation. When deferentiation fails, difference becomes dangerous and genocide becomes possible. Connecting historical developments with everyday life occurrences, and discussing examples ranging from thirteenth-century Languedoc to 1994 Rwanda, Powell offers an original framework for analyzing, comparing, and discussing genocides as variable outcomes of a common underlying social system, raising unsettling questions about the contradictions of Western civilization and the possibility of a world without genocide.

Author : Kavita Philip
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Colonization
ISBN : 8125025863

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Civilising Natures by Kavita Philip Pdf

Science, both as a scholarly discipline and as a concept in the popular imagination, was critical to building hegemony in the British Empire. It also inspired alternative ideas of progress by elites and the disenfranchised: these competing spectres continue to haunt postcolonial modernities. Why and how has science so powerfully shaped both the common sense of individuals and the development of postcolonial states? Philip suggests that our ideas of race and resources are key. Civilising Natures tells us how race and nature are fundamental to understanding colonial modernities, and along the way, it complicates our understandings of the relationships between science and religion, pre-modern and civilised, environment and society.

Author : A.A. (Andy) den Otter
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780888646767

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Civilizing the Wilderness by A.A. (Andy) den Otter Pdf

In this collection of essays, A.A. den Otter explores the meaning of the concepts "civilizing" and "wilderness" within an 1850s Euro-British North American context. At the time, den Otter argues, these concepts meant something quite different than they do today. Through careful readings and researches of a variety of lesser known individuals and events, den Otter teases out the striking dichotomy between "civilizing" and "wilderness," leading readers to a new understanding of the relationship between newcomers and Native peoples, and the very lands they inhabited. Historians and non-specialists with an interest in western Canadian native, settler, and environmental-economic history will be deeply rewarded by reading Civilizing the Wilderness.

Author : Shen Hou
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822978589

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The City Natural by Shen Hou Pdf

The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888–1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that would influence the future of American environmentalism. In The City Natural, Shen Hou presents the first “biography” of this important but largely overlooked vehicle for individuals with the common goal of preserving nature in American civilization. As Hou's study reveals, Garden and Forest was instrumental in redefining the fields of botany and horticulture, while also helping to shape the fledgling professions of landscape architecture and forestry. The publication actively called for reform in government policy, urban design, and future planning for the preservation and inclusion of nature in cities. It also attempted to shape public opinion on these issues through a democratic ideal that every citizen had the right (and need) to access nature. These notions would anticipate the conservation and “city beautiful” movements that followed in the early twentieth century. Hou explains the social and environmental conditions that led to the rise of reform efforts, organizations, and publications such as Garden and Forest. She reveals the intellectual core and vision of the magazine as a proponent of the city natural movement that sought to relate nature and civilization through the arts and sciences. Garden and Forest was a staunch advocate of urban living made better through careful planning and design. As Hou shows, the publication also promoted forest management and preservation, not only as a natural resource but as an economic one. She also profiles the editors and contributors who set the magazine's tone and follows their efforts to expand America's environmental expertise. Through the pages of Garden and Forest, the early period of environmentalism was especially fruitful and optimistic; many individuals joined forces for the benefit of humankind and helped lay the foundation for a coherent national movement. Shen Hou's study gives Garden and Forest its due and adds an important new chapter to the early history of American environmentalism.

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné,Michael Mann
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843310921

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Colonialism as Civilizing Mission by Harald Fischer-Tiné,Michael Mann Pdf

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.