Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand (eBook)

An Ethnography of Coastal Protection

Friederike Gesing (Autor)

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2016
356 Seiten
Transcript Verlag
978-3-8394-3446-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Working with nature - and not against it - is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly popular approach of "soft" protection to the Aotearoa New Zealand coast. Friederike Gesing analyses a political controversy over hard and soft protection measures, and introduces a growing community of practice involved in projects of working with nature. Dune restoration volunteers, coastal management experts, surfer-scientists, and Maori conservationists are engaged in projects ranging from do-it-yourself erosion control, to the reconstruction of native nature, and soft engineering "in concert with natural processes". With soft protection, Gesing argues, we can witness a new sociotechnical imaginary in the making.

Autor

Friederike Gesing (Dr.) is a senior researcher at artec Sustainability Research Center, University of Bremen. She works on sociomaterial practices of coastal protection and transnational climate policy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Zusatzinfo: Klebebindung, 18 SW-Abbildungen
• Verlagsort: Bielefeld
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Coastal Protection • Collaboration • Cultural geography • Culture • Dune Restoration • Environment • Environmental Sociology • ethnography • Ethnology • human ecology • Materiality • Nature • New Zealand • Oceania • Practice • Sociotechnical Imaginaries
• ISBN-10: 3-8394-3446-7 / 3839434467
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8394-3446-8 / 9783839434468