Bodies of Nature.
Title:
Bodies of Nature.
Author:
Macnaghten, Phil.
ISBN:
9780857022745
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Series:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Contents:
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 Lapland -- Index.
Abstract:
This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated `turn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades. The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring, and guides readers through the various ways in which these bodily opportunities and constraints are temporally and spatially organized and managed.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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