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Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully 'regulated' without making life more dangerous as a result.

• Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled 'Biosecurity borderlands'
• Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and...

Geographies of Nature introduces readers to conventional understandings of nature, while examining alternative accounts - from different disciplines - where nature resists easy classification.

Accessibly written, organized in 10 chapters in two sections, Geographies of Nature demonstrates how recent thinking has urgent relevance and impact on the ways in which we approach environmental problems. The text:

• makes concepts accessible and applicable to readers' own experience with the extensive use of case studies
• uses...

The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.
The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. Individual chapters look in depth at genes, environments and human development, medical practices and health, and the management of environmental risk. Throughout students...

Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully 'regulated' without making life more dangerous as a result.

• Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled 'Biosecurity borderlands'
• Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and...

Geographies of Nature introduces readers to conventional understandings of nature, while examining alternative accounts - from different disciplines - where nature resists easy classification.

Accessibly written, organized in 10 chapters in two sections, Geographies of Nature demonstrates how recent thinking has urgent relevance and impact on the ways in which we approach environmental problems. The text:

• makes concepts accessible and applicable to readers' own experience with the extensive use of case studies
• uses...

The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.
The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. Individual chapters look in depth at genes, environments and human development, medical practices and health, and the management of environmental risk. Throughout...

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who a wea humans think a wea are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoplesa everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly...

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who we humans think we are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed...

Climate change, urban congestion, nuclear waste, deforestation, destruction of wildlife - how can we respond to these and the many other environmental problems that the world faces today? Can we trust the experts? Does technology have the answers? Should we look to governments or to markets to solve the problems? Are political solutions possible? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the environmental futures? To address these questions we need to look at environmental responses in an integrated way. This includes understanding the responses of environments to change, and the responses...