03625nam 2200373 n 450 991051220500332120230514074327.0(CKB)5590000000630787(NjHacI)995590000000630787(EXLCZ)99559000000063078720230514d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnvironment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region sea changes /William WheelerLondon, England :UCL Press,2021.1 online resource (xxii, 265 pages)1-80008-037-9 Intro -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 The Aral Sea and the Modernisation of Central Asia: A Century of Catastrophes -- 2 Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: Problems of Living Standards and Employment -- 3 Ocean Fish, State Socialism and Nostalgia in Aral'sk -- 4 Rupture and Continuity in Aral Fishing Villages -- 5 From Soviet Ruins: Flounder, the Kökaral Dam and the Return of the Small Aral Sea -- 6 Zander and Social Change in Bögen 7 Aral'sk Today: Fish, Money, Ekologiia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources for Fish Catches, 1905-80 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea's shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea's retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral'sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region Human ecologyHuman ecology.304.2Wheeler William117005NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910512205003321Environment and post-Soviet transformation in Kazakhstans Aral Sea region2839410UNINA04118nam 2200673Ia 450 991097269810332120200520144314.09780674039445067403944010.4159/9780674039445(CKB)1000000000786785(StDuBDS)AH23050762(SSID)ssj0000196093(PQKBManifestationID)11180773(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196093(PQKBWorkID)10142252(PQKB)10666673(Au-PeEL)EBL3300405(CaPaEBR)ebr10318397(OCoLC)923111144(DE-B1597)588899(DE-B1597)9780674039445(MiAaPQ)EBC3300405(OCoLC)1322124368(Perlego)1146946(EXLCZ)99100000000078678520011002d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMaking sense of life explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines /Evelyn Fox Keller1st ed.Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press20021 online resource (xii, 388 p. )illOriginally published: 2002.9780674007468 0674007468 9780674012509 067401250X Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-381) and index.Preface Introduction PART ONE Models: Explaining Development without the Help of Genes 1. Synthetic Biology and the Origin of Living Form 2. Morphology as a Science of Mechanical Forces 3. Untimely Births of a Mathematical Biology PART TWO Metaphors: Genes and Developmental Narratives 4. Genes, Gene Action, and Genetic Programs 5. Taming the Cybernetic Metaphor 6. Positioning Positional Information PART THREE Machines: Understanding Development with Computers, Recombinant DNA, and Molecular Imaging 7. The Visual Culture of Molecular Embryology 8. New Roles for Mathematical and Computational Modeling 9. Synthetic Biology Redux-Computer Simulation and Artificial Life Conclusion: Understanding Development Notes References IndexWhat do biologists want? How will we know when we have 'made sense' of life? Explanations in the biological sciences are provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogenous as their subject matter. This text accounts for this diversity.What do biologists want? If, unlike their counterparts in physics, biologists are generally wary of a grand, overarching theory, at what kinds of explanation do biologists aim? How will we know when we have "made sense" of life? Such questions, Evelyn Fox Keller suggests, offer no simple answers. Explanations in the biological sciences are typically provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogeneous as their subject matter. It is Keller's aim in this bold and challenging book to account for this epistemological diversity--particularly in the discipline of developmental biology. In particular, Keller asks, what counts as an "explanation" of biological development in individual organisms? Her inquiry ranges from physical and mathematical models to more familiar explanatory metaphors to the dramatic contributions of recent technological developments, especially in imaging, recombinant DNA, and computer modeling and simulations. A history of the diverse and changing nature of biological explanation in a particularly charged field, Making Sense of Life draws our attention to the temporal, disciplinary, and cultural components of what biologists mean, and what they understand, when they propose to explain life.Developmental biologyBiologyDevelopmental biology.Biology.570.1WB 4000rvkKeller Evelyn Fox1936-51484MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972698103321Making sense of life4356176UNINA