Book/Printed Material Frontier thinking and human-nature relations : we were never western We were never western

Title

• Frontier thinking and human-nature relations : we were never western

Other Title

• We were never western

Summary

• "Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of 'frontier thinking' and demonstrates its pernicious amplification in contemporary human affairs. This book systematically identifies the ways in which images of nature and society are formed by historically developed frontier-oriented narratives. It illustrates how these narratives have underpinned much Anglo-American and Anglocentric thought, and have even come to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation - in ways that are relevant not least to the present environmental crisis. The book confronts these conceptions at large, showing that they never held empirically, and contrasts them with the situation in northern Europe, where diverging assumptions are integral to this day. Through this juxtaposition, the book illustrates not only the pervasiveness of structures of understanding in steering policy, but also the varying traditions in different countries regarding how understandings of the environment can be formed. The study highlights how historical thought patterns, formed for very different reasons than exist today, continue to shape our assumptions - about nature, the relation between urban and rural areas, and our understanding of ourselves in relation to the environmental crisis. The book 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Keskitalo, E. C. H. (Eva Carina Helena), 1974- author

Created / Published

• London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Contents

• 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?

Headings

• -  Human beings--Effect of environment on--United States
• -  Human beings--Effect of environment on--Europe, Northern
• -  Environmental sociology--United States
• -  Environmental sociology--Europe, Northern
• -  Frontier and pioneer life--United States
• -  Frontier and pioneer life--Europe, Northern
• -  Environmental protection--United States
• -  Environmental protection--Europe, Northern

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• GF51

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024011266

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024011266

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024011266

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