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  • Geographies of Nature

    Societies, Environments, Ecologies

    by Steve Hinchliffe ...
    "An exemplary introduction to cutting edge work on the geographies of nature. Intellectually demanding, clearly written and empirically rich, this is a book that deserves a wide readership within and beyond the geographical discipline."- Sarah J. Whatmore, Oxford University Centre for the EnvironmentGeographies of Nature introduces readers to conventional understandings of nature - realist, ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Pathological Lives

    Disease, Space and Biopolitics

    by Steve Hinchliffe, Nick Bingham, John Allen, Simon Carter ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result.Uses empirical and social theoretical resources ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Humans, Animals and Biopolitics

    The more-than-human condition

    Edited by Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitro, Steve Hinchliffe ...
    Series series Multispecies Encounters
    Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ’we’ humans think ’we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Natural and the Social

    Uncertainty, Risk, Change

    Edited by STEVE HINCHLIFFE, Kathryn (Kath) Alison Woodward ...
    Series series Understanding Social Change
    The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Against Purity

    Living Ethically in Compromised Times

    by Alexis Shotwell ...
    The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Animals as Biotechnology

    Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies

    by Richard Twine ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal sciences, which aims to increase the efficiency and profitability of meat and dairy production; and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Posthumanism

    Anthropological Insights

    by Alan Smart, Josephine Smart ...
    Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were central to the lives that were narrated by anthropologists, but they extend the discussion to include ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Microbial State

    Global Thriving and the Body Politic

    by Stefanie R. Fishel ...
    For three centuries, concepts of the state have been animated by one of the most powerful metaphors in politics: the body politic, a claustrophobic and bounded image of sovereignty. Climate change, neoliberalism, mass migration, and other aspects of the late Anthropocene have increasingly revealed the limitations of this metaphor. Just as the human body is not whole and separate from other bodies ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David DeGrazia ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Risk: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Anthropology

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Joy Hendry, Simon Underdown ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Timescapes of Modernity

    The Environment and Invisible Hazards

    by Barbara Adam ...
    Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic growth; large-scale production of food; the speed ... Read more

    $84.99 USD