Race, Nature,& the Politics-PB [Paperback]

Donald S. Moore (Author), Moore (Author), Donald S. Moore (Editor)

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Paperback: 488 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822330911
ISBN-13: 978-0822330912
Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 644 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #770,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference is a splendid collection of essays, each of which, ... stands alone as inherently interesting... this is a book that offers critical race students a series of passionate accounts that are, above all else, interesting and important. It should be a compulsory text in graduate courses on not only race and nature, but also cultural politics and even critical cultural studies more generally."--Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2005 Volume 23 issue 1

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How do race and nature work as terrains of power? From eighteenth-century claims that climate determined character to twentieth-century medical debates about the racial dimensions of genetic disease, concepts of race and nature are integrally connected, woven into notions of body, landscape, and nation. Yet rarely are these complex entanglements explored in relation to the contemporary cultural politics of difference. This volume takes up that challenge. Distinguished contributors chart the traffic between race and nature across sites including rainforests, colonies, and courtrooms. Synthesizing a number of fields - anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory - this collection analyses diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations. Contributors draw on thinkers such as Fanon, Foucault and Gramsci to investigate themes ranging from exclusionary notions of whiteness and wilderness in North America to linguistic purity in Germany. Others focus on the racialised violence of imperial rule and evolutionary science, and the biopolitics of race and class in the Guatemalan civil war. Some contributors examine how race and nature are fused in biogenetic discourse - in the emergence of 'racial diseases' such as sickle cell anemia; in a case of mistaken in vitro fertilization in which a white couple gave birth to a black child; and, even in the world of North American dog breeding. Several essays tackle the politics of representation surrounding environmental justice movements, transnational sex tourism, and indigenous struggles for land and resource rights in Indonesia and Brazil. The contributors to this book include: Bruce Braun; Giovanna Di Chiro; Paul Gilroy; Steven Gregory; Donna Haraway; Jake Kosek; Tania Murray Li; Uli Linke; Zine Magubane; Donald S. Moore; Diane Nelson; Anand Pandian; Alcida Rita Ramos; Keith Wailoo; and, Robyn Wiegman.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Cobbled Together, Disappointing, Aug 22 2004

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This review is from: Race, Nature,& the Politics-PB (Paperback)

Any serious scholar who reads this book's introduction will get the feeling it was cobbled together from yet one more conference that didn't quite work out. Too wide-ranging to hold together theoretically, the piecemeal and somewhat simplistic analysis of the introductory chapter is disappointing. This is an important topic and one would have expected veteran Donald Moore to do better, even though it's an edited volume. A few of the individual chapters are interesting, although those authors have done better work elsewhere, such as Tania Li, Paul Gilroy, or Donna Haraway. The chapter which holds promise as covering some new ground is the one by Alcida Ramos, an innovative and synthetic thinker, although it too would benefit from more polish and finesse. The whole volume has a hasty feeling to it and is ultimately a disappointment.

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