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UNINA9910856980503321 |
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Autore |
Keskitalo E. C. H. |
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Titolo |
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations : We Were Never Western |
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Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024 |
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©2024 |
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ISBN |
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1-04-009972-6 |
1-04-009971-8 |
1-003-46620-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (181 pages) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social sciences |
Human geography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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