New Natures: Joining Environmental History With Science and Technology Studies | by Dolly Jørgensen | Finn Arne Jørgensen | Sara Pritchard | ‎ Univ of Pittsburgh Pr | ‎ English

Product description Review 'New Natures' achieves its aim of 'fostering more explicit theoretical dialogue between the fields' of environmental history and science studies in brilliant fashion. While the essays treat a broad array of topics, unity comes in each focusing on how science and technology studies theory can enrich the interpretive scope of environmental history narratives. The result is a methodological meditation that will instruct not only historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science, but also anyone interested in how to go about achieve true interdisciplinarity. . . I recommend this book highly, not just to those interested in environmental history but in many other fields as well. The different insights these essays provide about the profitable and enriching use of STS theory are generally applicable to many areas of historical inquiry.-- "Science and Education"Both individually and collectively, this is a fine and coherently organized set of essays. The authors' usage of STS theory to illuminate their empirical cases are interesting in and of themselves, but also suggestive of ways that other environmental historians might profitably deepen and expand their own research through judicious adaptations of theory.-- "ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology"Offers a delightful buffet sampling of the varying possibilities (and degrees) of STS influence on environmental history.-- "Agricultural History"Overall, an interesting and challenging read.-- "Choice Magazine"The overall endeavor of blending STS with environmental history is an idea whose time has come and I am glad to see this volume out in the world.-- "Technology and Culture"Timely and important. A welcome volume that seizes upon an emerging interest and body of scholarship at the intersections of environmental history and science and technology studies, particularly among a younger generation of scholars in both fields.-- "Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison" About the Author Dolly Jørgensen is a researcher in the department of ecology and environmental science at Umeå University, Sweden. Finn Arne Jørgensen is associate senior lecturer of history of technology and environment at Umeå University, Sweden.Sara B. Pritchard is assistant professor in the department of science and technology studies at Cornell University.