Knowing nature : conversations at the intersection of political ecology and science studies / edited by Mara J. Goldman, Paul Nadasdy, and Matthew D. Turner.

Introduction -- Mara J. Goldman and Matthew D. Turner; Part 1. Production of Environmental Knowledge: Scientists, Complex Natures, and the Question of Agency; Introduction -- Matthew D. Turner; 1. Politicizing Environmental Explanations: What Can Political Ecology Learn from Sociology and Philosophy of Science? -- Tim Forsyth; 2. Debating the Science of Using Marine Turtles: Boundary Work among Species Experts -- Lisa M. Campbell; 3. Technobiological Imaginaries: How Do Systems Biologists Know Nature? -- Joan H. Fujimura.

4. Agency, Structuredness, and the Production of Knowledge within Intersecting Processes -- Peter J. Taylor5. Fermentation, Rot, and Other Human- Microbial Performances -- Mrill Ingram; 6. Ferricrete, Forests, and Temporal Scale in the Production of Colonial Science in Africa -- Chris Duvall; Part 2. Application of Environmental Knowledge: The Politics of Constructing Society/Nature; Introduction -- Paul Nadasdy; 7. "We Don't Harvest Animals; We Kill Them": Agricultural Metaphors and the Politics of Wildlife Management in the Yukon -- Paul Nadasdy.

8. Political Violence and Scientific Forestry: Emergencies, Insurgencies, and Counterinsurgencies in Southeast Asia -- Peter Vandergeest and Nancy LeePeluso9. Spatial-Geographic Models of Water Scarcity and Supply in Irrigation Engineering and Management: Bolivia, 1952-2009 -- Karl S. Zimmerer; 10. The Politics of Connectivity across Human-Occupied Landscapes: Corridors near Nairobi National Park, Kenya -- Mara J. Goldman; Part 3. Circulation of Environmental Knowledge: Networks, Expertise, and Science in Practice; Introduction -- Mara J. Goldman.

11. Rooted Networks, Webs of Relation, and the Power of Situated Science: Bringing the Models Back Down to Earth in Zambrana -- Dianne Rocheleau12. Circulating Science, Incompletely Regulating Commodities: Governing from a Distance in Transnational Agro-Food Networks -- Ryan E. Galt; 13. Reclaiming the Technological Imagination: Water, Power, and Place in India -- Roopali Phadke; 14. Circulating Knowledge, Constructing Expertise -- Rebecca Lave; 15. Experiments as "Performances": Interpreting Farmers' Soil Fertility Management Practices in Western Kenya -- Joshua J. Ramisch.

Conclusion -- Matthew D. TurnerReferences; List of Contributors; Index.

Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives--one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge--their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. . Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecologi.

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