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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777812903321

Autore

Whitehead Mark <1975->

Titolo

The nature of the state [[electronic resource] ] : excavating the political ecologies of the modern state / / Mark Whitehead, Rhys Jones, and Martin Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-191760-5

1-281-16447-X

9786611164478

0-19-151513-2

1-4294-7075-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Oxford geographical and environmental studies

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesMartin <1970->

JonesRhys <1971->

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human geography - Political aspects

Human ecology - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. States and Natures: An Introduction; 2. Seeing Double: Thinking about Natures and States; 3. The Moments of Nature-State Relations; 4. Mapping the Land: Spatializing State Nature; 5. Nature and the State Apparatus; 6. Between Laboratory and Leviathan: Technological Development and the Cyborg State; 7. Exploring Post-National Natures: Nature in the Shadow of the State; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'The Nature of the State' challenges the ways in which social scientists and geographers approach the study of state-nature relations. Introducing original research into the different institutional and temporal strategies used by states to frame the natural world, this book provides an overview of political and ecological theories.