Modernizing Nature

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Modernizing Nature

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Author : S. Ravi Rajan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-02-16

Modernizing Nature written by S. Ravi Rajan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-16 with Nature categories.

Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad colonial sciences had ideological and interventionist traditions distinct from each other and from the colonial bureaucracy and that these tensions better explain environmental politics and policy dilemmas in the post-colonial era. Professor Rajan argues that tropical forestry in the nineteenth century consisted of at least two distinct approaches towards nature, resource, and people; and what won out in the end was the Continental European forestry paradigm. Rajan also shows that science and scientists were relatively marginal until the First World War. It was the acute scientific and resource crisis felt during the War, along with the rise of experts and expertise in Britain during that period and the lobby-politics of an organized empire-wide scientific community, that resulted in resource management regimes such as forestry beginning to get serious state backing. Over time, considerable differences in approach and outlook towards policy emerged between different colonial scientific communities, such as foresters and agriculturists. These different colonial sciences represented different situated knowledges, with different visions of nature, people, and empire, and in different configurations of power. Finally, in a panoramic overview of post-colonial developments, Rajan argues that the hegemony of these state-scientific regimes of resource-management during the period 1950-1990 engendered not just social revolt, as recent historical work has shown, but also intellectual protest. Consequently, the discipline of forestry became systematically re-conceptualized, with newapproaches to sylviculture, economics, law, and crucially, with new visions of modernity. This disciplinary change constitutes nothing short of a cognitive revolution, one that has been brought about by a clearly articulated political perspective on the orientation of the discipline of forestry by its practitioners.

Modernizing Nature

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Author : S. Ravi Rajan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Modernizing Nature written by S. Ravi Rajan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Forest management categories.

Tropical Nature

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Author : Guillaume Blanc
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2025-03-01

Tropical Nature written by Guillaume Blanc and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-01 with Political Science categories.

Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. Comparing case studies ranging from Ali Bongo’s Gabon, to the postcolonial African itinerary of the agronomist Arthur Bunting, this volume advances a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.

The Nature Study Movement

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Author : Kevin C. Armitage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

The Nature Study Movement written by Kevin C. Armitage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.

The first comprehensive history of the nature study movement and its significance to American environmental thought and politics. Argues that nature study advocates, through their systematic program or educating children about nature, formed a critical foundation for the launching of the conservation movement.

Modernizing Culture

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Author : Wendy Lynch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Modernizing Culture written by Wendy Lynch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Science categories.

Modernization In Tamil

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Author : L. Ramamoorthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Modernization In Tamil written by L. Ramamoorthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language planning categories.

Asian Traditions And Modernization

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Author : Mun Cheong Yong
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
Release Date : 2004

Asian Traditions And Modernization written by Mun Cheong Yong and has been published by Marshall Cavendish Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.

Asian Traditions and Modernization studies various aspects of change in Singapore and explores the ways in which tradition has shaped and moderated the process of modernization. Employing a multi-faceted approach that covers history, religion, science, ethnic relations and language, the book looks in depth at a country which has witnessed rapid modernization and yet at the same time desires to preserve cultural values. Because tradition and modernization are relative and open-ended concepts, traditional values can be modern in their orientation and conversely, modern societies can be traditional in their practices. The focal concern of the book is how these terms can be best and fully understood. This reissue features a new preface by the author.

Good Medicine

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Author : Michael L. Tan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Good Medicine written by Michael L. Tan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Advertising categories.

Eugenics And Modernization In Interwar Romania

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Author : Maria Bucur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Eugenics And Modernization In Interwar Romania written by Maria Bucur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

Between 1918 and 1948, a growing group of professionals - prominent physicians, academicians, scientists, and sociologists - set out to transform Romanian health care, society, and the state according to the gospel of eugenics.".

Modernization And The Hindu Socio Culture

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Author : Akhileshwar Jha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977

Modernization And The Hindu Socio Culture written by Akhileshwar Jha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Political Science categories.