Bodies of nature / edited by Phil Macnaghten, John Urry.

By:

Macnaghten, Phil, [editor]

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Material type:

TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2001.Description: 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0761973354

Uniform titles:

Body & society.
Theory, culture & society.

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DDC classification:

306.4 21

Contents:

This text examines the nature of people's experience in, and of the modern world. This is part of the deep-seated 'turn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades.

Summary: Bodies of Nature - Phil Macnaghten and John Urry Introduction'Botanizing on the Asphalt' - Nigel Clark The Complex Life of Cosmopolitan BodiesStill Life in the Nearly Present Time - Nigel Thrift The Object of NatureThe Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity - Neil LewisWalking in the British Countryside - Tim Edensor Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to EscapeThese Boots Are Made for Walking... - Mike Michael Mundane Technology, the Body and Human-Environment RelationsNaked as Nature Intended - David Bell and Ruth HollidayAction and Noise over a Hundred Years - David Matless The Making of a Nature RegionBodies in the Woods - Phil Macnaghten and John UrryPerceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland - Tim Ingold and Terhi Kurttila

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Holdings
Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		306.4 MAC					Available			30010973

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""Bodies of nature is published as volume 6, numbers 3-4 of Body & society""--T.p. verso.

""Published in association with Theory, culture & society""--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bodies of Nature - Phil Macnaghten and John Urry Introduction'Botanizing on the Asphalt' - Nigel Clark The Complex Life of Cosmopolitan BodiesStill Life in the Nearly Present Time - Nigel Thrift The Object of NatureThe Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity - Neil LewisWalking in the British Countryside - Tim Edensor Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to EscapeThese Boots Are Made for Walking... - Mike Michael Mundane Technology, the Body and Human-Environment RelationsNaked as Nature Intended - David Bell and Ruth HollidayAction and Noise over a Hundred Years - David Matless The Making of a Nature RegionBodies in the Woods - Phil Macnaghten and John UrryPerceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland - Tim Ingold and Terhi Kurttila