Beschreibung:
This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated 'turn towards the body'. However, it is partly critical of this development in as much as it affirms that
Bodies of Nature - Phil Macnaghten and John Urry Introduction'Botanizing on the Asphalt' - Nigel Clark The Complex Life of Cosmopolitan BodiesStill Life in the Nearly Present Time - Nigel Thrift The Object of NatureThe Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity - Neil LewisWalking in the British Countryside - Tim Edensor Reflexivity, Embodied Practices and Ways to EscapeThese Boots Are Made for Walking... - Mike Michael Mundane Technology, the Body and Human-Environment RelationsNaked as Nature Intended - David Bell and Ruth HollidayAction and Noise over a Hundred Years - David Matless The Making of a Nature RegionBodies in the Woods - Phil Macnaghten and John UrryPerceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland - Tim Ingold and Terhi Kurttila