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Organizing Nature: Turning Canada's Ecosystems Into Resources

Organizing Nature: Turning Canada's Ecosystems Into Resources

Cohen, Alice
Biro, Andrew

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General Political ScienceGeography

ISBN10: 1487594852
ISBN13: 9781487594855
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jun 7 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada.

In tracing transitions from ecosystem component to resource, this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources - fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life - the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities.

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