BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Part 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF CONSTRUCTION -- NATURE AT THE MILLENIUM -- THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE -- Marx and nature -- First World agrarian political economy -- Third World political ecology -- New directions -- ENFRAMING NATURE: CULTURAL INTELLIGIBILITY AND ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CALCULATION -- Historicizing appearances: nature and representation in late modernity -- Effects of power and the domain of politics: constructing and contesting nature's materialization -- NETWORKS, ACTANTS AND TECHNOSCIENCE: BUILDING HYBRIDS -- The social construction of scientific knowledge -- Nature, science and the construction of "society" -- Amodernity and the analytics and politics of quasi-objects -- CONCLUSION: TOWARD A POLITICAL THEORY OF SOCIAL NATURE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part 2 CAPITALISING AND ENFRAMING NATURE -- 2 WHOSE NATURE, WHOSE CULTURE? -- INTRODUCTION -- NATURE AS AN ACCUMULATION STRATEGY -- CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM -- ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION -- RESTORATION AND ITS LIMITS -- PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION AS GATEWAYS TO PRIVATIZATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 FLUID BODIES, MANAGED NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFENDED BORDERS: THE BODY AS MACHINE -- BLURRED BOUNDARIES: THE BODY AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM -- MANAGING "OUR ROOTS IN THE WORLD" -- CORRELATIONS -- CAUTIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 MOVING ON FROM BOTH STATE AND CONSUMER EUGENICS? -- INTRODUCTION: EUGENICS AND THE GENOME PROJECT -- ORIGIN STORIES -- EUGENIC ENTHUSIASMS -- CRITICISING CONSUMER EUGENICISM -- BRITISH CRITICISM OF THE NEW GENETICS -- THE PECULIARITY OF BRITISH SCIENCE FRICTIONS? -- MANAGING UK CRITICISM -- MOVING ON -- REFERENCES -- 5 REASSERTING NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE "NATURE" OF URBANIZATION.

Histories of urban natures -- RESTRUCTURING AND MODERNIZING NATURE AND URBANITY IN THE TORONTO URBAN REGION -- Modernizing urban planning after Fordism -- Flexcity: urbanization and the new urban order -- New residential spaces -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6 ENVIRONMENTALISM, WISE USE AND THE NATURE OF ACCUMULATION IN THE RURAL WEST -- INTRODUCTION -- WISE USE AND THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE -- WISE USE, COMPETITION AND CLASS CONFLICT -- Wise Use and radical marketization -- Wise Use and social protection -- WISE USE AND THE STATE -- Federal lands -- Property rights -- Environmental regulations -- THE DISCOURSE OF WISE USE -- WISE USE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT -- CONCLUSION: WISE USE AND ENVIRONMENTALISM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 THE NATURE OF DENATURALIZED CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTES -- Part 3 ACTORS, NETWORKS AND THE POLITICS OF HYBRIDITY -- 8 SCIENCE, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AND NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM -- SAVING THE FOREST -- GLOBAL WARMING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 INCORPORATING NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- NATURE'S AGENCY IN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY -- Nature as historical agent -- Agricultural narratives -- NATURE'S AGENCY WITHIN CAPITALISM -- Nature as limits, nature as process -- Agricultural narratives: ecoregulation and the labour process -- AGRI-CULTURE AS A NATURE-SOCIETY HYBRID -- A history of agricultural quasi-objects: the corn collective -- FOOD AND EVERYDAY METABOLIC STORIES -- BSE: a co-production denied -- Anorexia/anorectic redux: hunger and metabolism -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 TO MODERNISE OR ECOLOGISE? THAT IS THE QUESTION -- WILL POLITICAL ECOLOGY PASS AWAY? -- IS POLITICAL ECOLOGY AN ORIGINAL TYPE OF JUSTIFICATION? -- SHOULD WE ABANDON THE PRINCIPLE OF COMMON HUMANITY?.

WHAT IF ECOLOGY DID NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH NATURE? -- What ecology believes it ought to do without managing to -- What ecology (happily) does extremely well -- WHAT IS COMMON IN THE EXPRESSION 'COMMON HUMANITY'? -- AN ALTERNATIVE TO MODERNISATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 NATURE AS ARTIFICE AND ARTIFACT -- INTRODUCTION -- NATURE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE POST-DEVELOPMENT IMAGINARY -- OIL, OIL POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT IN POST-COLONIAL NIGERIA -- BLACK GOLD: THE NATURAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OGONILAND -- DRILLING FIELDS: CONSTRUCTING NATURE, COMMUNITY AND ALTERITY IN OGONILAND -- POST-COLONIAL GREEN -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Part 4 AFTERWORD -- 12 NATURE AT THE MILLENIUM -- INTRODUCTION -- BEYOND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM: SOKAL'S TAUNT AND THE PRODUCTION OF NATURE -- THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF NATURE? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.