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

• Autore: Keskitalo E. C. H.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.20973
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences; Human geography
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations
• ISBN: 1-04-009972-6; 1-04-009971-8; 1-003-46620-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910856980503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies