Rethinking Nature Relations

Abstract

This series is a forum for innovative scholarly writing from across all substantive fields of the social sciences. It aims to enrich the study of the social sciences by promoting a cutting-edge approach to thought and analysis. Academic scrutiny and challenge are essential components in the development of the social sciences and its fields of study, and the act of re-thinking and re-examining principles and precepts that may have been long-held is imperative.Rethinking Research and Theory showcases authored books that address the social sciences from a new angle, expose the weaknesses of existing concepts and arguments, or 're-frame' the topic in some way. This might be through the introduction of radical ideas, through the integration of perspectives from other fields or even disciplines, through challenging existing paradigms, or simply through a level of analysis that elevates or sharpens our understanding of a subject.

‘I can hear the wind and feel it touch me on the nose’: The search for agency of the environment in the dialogue between human and nature. The case of Austin, TX

“…Nowadays, the social construction of nature (Eder, K. 1996;Demeritt, D. 2022) goes beyond human-centred visions (Stedman, R.C. 2003;Keskitalo, E.C.H. 2023), while recognizing the agency of the biotic and geographical environment is an important part of building interspecies interactions on our planet.…”

“…2023), while recognizing the agency of the biotic and geographical environment is an important part of building interspecies interactions on our planet. As a result of these scientific considerations, in recent decades an approach has been established in social geography in which we are all "living in more-than-human world" (Whatmore, S. 2002, 159;Keskitalo, E.C.H. 2023) and 'more-than-human cities' (Luther, E. 2020;Perrotti, D. 2020).…”