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ARTEFACTUAL NATURES
Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers,
23-29 March, 1998, in Boston, MA
>From the Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, to nuclear engineering
and computer modeling, contemporary technoscience seems finally to be
catching up with science fiction in its ability fully to remake and
construct the nature of the world. As those like John McPhee announce the
_End of Nature_ that is resulting from global-scale human modification of
the earth's atmosphere, a variety of academic scholars, from environmental
historians thinking about the ideology of wilderness, to sociologists
studying scientific practice, and feminists considering the nature of the
body and of human identity, contend that "Nature" is not ontologically
distinct from "Society." Instead, they suggest, nature (like society) is a
thorough-going hybrid, something materialized and produced as an artefact
of negotiated articulations between heterogenous social agents. Rather
simply rehearse the arguments of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and others,
this session seeks to engage with them critically and to explore the
geographical dimensions/contributions to the development of these kinds of
theories.
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please send a title and
abstract by 15 August to either:
David Demeritt, Sustainable Development Research Institute, B5-2203 Main
Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, CANADA, fax:
(604) 822-9191; email: [log in to unmask]
Sarah Whatmore, Dept. of Geography, Univ. Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, U.K.;
fax (0)117 928 7878; email: [log in to unmask]
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