The construction of nature and the nature of construction: analytical and political tools for building survivable futures / Noel Castree and Bruce Braun -- Whose nature, whose culture?: private productions of space and the "preservation" of nature / Cindi Katz -- Fluid bodies, managed nature / Emily Martin -- Moving on from both state and consumer eugenics? / Hilary Rose -- Reasserting nature: constructing urban environments after Fordism / Roger Keil and John Graham -- Environmentalism, wise use and the nature of accumulation in the rural West / James McCarthy -- The nature of denaturalized consumption and everyday life / Allan Pred -- Science, social constructivism and nature / David Demeritt -- Incorporating nature: environmental narratives and the reproduction of food / Margaret Fitzsimmons and David Goodman -- To modernise or ecologise? That is the question / Bruno Latour ; translated by Charis Cussins -- Nature as artifice and artifact / Michael Watts -- Nature at the millenium: production and re-enchantment / Neil Smith.
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"This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millennium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrounding race, gender and class, the contributors explore important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences."--Publisher description.