Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective (Environment in History: International Perspectives, Band 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782389083 ISBN 13: 9781782389088

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2015

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Explores the concept and expansion of the National Park from a global historical perspective, studying how a Western blueprint organised social and cultural relations to Nature into a multitude of ecological as well as political systems all over the world Situates the idea of confining nature to a park between Western concepts, practices and topographies of nature preservation and their localisation and adaptation in different historical, political, social, and ecological settings around the world. Focuses on the actors, networks, mechanisms and institutions responsible for the global transfer of National Parks and critically discusses the utilisation and mobilisation of assymetrical relationships of power and knowledge in different parts of the world. Makes a benchmark contribution to the historiography of globalisation and the emergence of of both global environmental institutions and governance

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Bernhard Gissibl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz. His PhD dissertation explored the history of hunting and wildlife conservation in colonial Tanzania and is forthcoming with Berghahn under the title The Nature of German Imperialism. Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in colonial East Africa.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1782389083
• ISBN 13: 9781782389088
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
• Herausgeber: Gissibl Bernhard, Höhler Sabine, Kupper Patrick
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland