Social nature

Social nature

Social Nature is the core concept of a geographical work on the social construction of nature, entitled "Social nature: theory, practice and politics", which has been published by Noel Castree and Bruce Braun in 2001. [CASTREE, Noel and BRAUN, B., "Social nature: theory, practice and politics", Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 2001.]

It says that the concept of Social Nature was created by critical geographers and embraces the idea of a socialized nature. Critical geographers like David Harvey and Neil Smith "insisted that nature is social in three related ways" [CASTREE, Noel and BRAUN, Bruce (Eds.), "Social nature: theory, practice and politics", Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp.10-15.] :
*Knowledge "of nature is invariably inflected with the biases of the" knowers,
*"Though knowledges of nature are social through and through, the social dimensions of nature are not reducible to knowledge alone",
*Societies "physically reconstitute" nature, both intentionally and unintentionally", to the point of internalizing nature into social processes (particularly in advanced Western societies).

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