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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819171303321

Titolo

Bodies of nature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Phil Macnaghten, John Urry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2001

ISBN

9786612559938

0-85702-274-1

1-282-55993-1

1-85702-274-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.) : facsims

Collana

Body & society ; ; v. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

MacnaghtenPhil

UrryJohn

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human ecology

Social ecology

Human beings - Effect of environment on

Human body (Philosophy)

Philosophy of nature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bodies of nature is published as volume 6, numbers 3-4 of Body & society"--T.p. verso.

"Published in association with Theory, culture & society"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; 1 - Bodies of Nature: Introduction; 2 - 'Botanizing on the Asphalt'? The Complex Life of Cosmopolitan Bodies; 3 - Still Life in Nearly Present Time: The Object of Nature; 4 - The Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity; 5 - Walking in the British Countryside: Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to Escape; 6 - These Boots are Made for Walking...: Mundane Technology, the Body and Human-Environment Relations; 7 - Naked as Nature Intended; 8 - Action and Noise Over a Hundred Years: The Making of a Nature Region; 9 - Bodies in the Woods

10 - Perceiving the Environment in Finnish LaplandIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This text examines the nature of people's experience in, and of the modern world. This is part of the deep-seated 'turn towards the body',



which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades.