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

• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.) : facsims
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology; Social ecology; Human beings - Effect of environment on; Human body (Philosophy); Philosophy of nature
• Altri autori: MacnaghtenPhil UrryJohn
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodies of nature
• ISBN: 9786612559938; 0-85702-274-1; 1-282-55993-1; 1-85702-274-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819171303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theory, culture & society.