Bodies of Nature by Phil Macnaghten and John Urry (2001)

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About This Book

This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated `turn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades. The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and escape, surveillance and monitoring, and guides readers through the various ways in which these bodily opportunities and constraints are temporally and spatially organized and managed.

Readership: Academics and students of sociology and cultural studies, and environmental studies

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Table of Contents

Bodies of Nature: Introduction Phil Macnaghten and John Urry
`Botanizing on the Asphalt': The Complex Life of Cosmopolitan Bodies Nigel Clark
Still Life in the Nearly Present Time: The Object of Nature Nigel Thrift
The Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity Neil Lewis
Walking in the British Countryside: Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to Escape Tim Edensor
These Boots Are Made for Walking...: Mundane Technology, the Body and Human-Environment Relations Mike Michael
Naked as Nature Intended David Bell and Ruth Holliday
Action and Noise over a Hundred Years: The Making of a Nature Region David Matless
Bodies in the Woods Phil Macnaghten and John Urry
Perceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland Tim Ingold and Terhi Kurttila

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Other Books by the Author


Other books by Phil Macnaghten and John Urry:

Contested Natures, (1998)

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