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Record Nr.

UNINA9910856980503321

Autore

Keskitalo E. C. H.

Titolo

Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations : We Were Never Western

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

1-04-009972-6

1-04-009971-8

1-003-46620-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Collana

Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Disciplina

304.20973

Soggetti

Social sciences

Human geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontier thinking -- Understanding the role of history in the present -- Frontier thinking : why is a distinction drawn between close-to-nature 'communities' and 'modern civilsed' societies or states? -- The role of frontier thinking in the development of the American state and society -- The following thorugh of frontier myth by Turner and the wilderness movement in the US -- Differences in the historical construction of development in Fennoscandian contexts -- Consequence of frontier thinking - from state to individual levels -- Consequences of frontier thinking on conceptions of the rural - historically and in present day -- Alternative conceptions of rurality in present-day Fennoscandia -- What is the social, and what do we base our policies on?

Sommario/riassunto

This book builds a compelling critique of 'frontier thinking' and demonstrates its pernicious amplification in contemporary human affairs. It will be of wide interest to a range of academics and students in the fields of geography, anthropology, environmental studies, sociology, political science and development studies, amongst others.