Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to restructure the relationship between aboriginal peoples and the state in Canada. Although it is widely held that land claims and co-management--two of the most visible and celebrated elements of this restructuring--will help reverse centuries of inequity, this book challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that land claims and co-management may be less empowering for First Nation peoples than is often supposed. The book examines the complex...
Winner of the Julian Steward Award
Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines contemporary efforts to res...
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...
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach ...
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...
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach ...