The political mobilization of nature in seventeenth-century French formal gardens

Mukerji, Chandra

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“…The incorporation of nature into the estates of the rich is another example of the extent to which people have been willing to invest resources in aesthetically pleasing landscapes throughout history. The reasons for this may vary from a display of power and control over nature (as in the gardens of Versailles) to a sense of peace and enlightenment that these landscapes create in the mind of the landowner 6 . Modern environmental economics addresses the ways in which people are willing to pay for access to natural landscapes, using travel cost methods, contingent valuation, and hedonic studies of property values that embody a preference for nature in higher prices for places nearer to it 7–13 .…”

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“…The reasons for this may vary from a display of power and control over nature (as in the gardens of Versailles) to a sense of peace and enlightenment that these landscapes create in the mind of the landowner. 6 Modern environmental economics addresses the ways in which people are willing to pay for access to natural landscapes, using travel cost methods, contingent valuation, and hedonic studies of property values that embody a preference for nature in higher prices for places nearer to it. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] But a central question remains: why are some people willing to pay more for contact with (or views of) nature?…”

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The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health

Bratman

Hamilton

Daily

2012

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Scholars spanning a variety of disciplines have studied the ways in which contact with natural environments may impact human well-being. We review the effects of such nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health, synthesizing work from environmental psychology, urban planning, the medical literature, and landscape aesthetics. We provide an overview of the prevailing explanatory theories of these effects, the ways in which exposure to nature has been considered, and the role that individuals' preferences for nature may play in the impact of the environment on psychological functioning. Drawing from the highly productive but disparate programs of research in this area, we conclude by proposing a system of categorization for different types of nature experience. We also outline key questions for future work, including further inquiry into which elements of the natural environment may have impacts on cognitive function and mental health; what the most effective type, duration, and frequency of contact may be; and what the possible neural mechanisms are that could be responsible for the documented effects.

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The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health

Bratman

Hamilton

Daily

2012

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…An established technological system, such as Green Revolution -style rice farming, is more than patterns of human behavior and sets of ideas. Like the seventeenth-century French state formation analyzed by Chandra Mukerji (1994), the modern East Asian state-rice complex is embodied in a material form-in this case, seeds, machines, and cultivated landscapes. Around these material phenomena, people construct and reproduce modern Taiwanese rural culture and society.…”

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Technological Momentum and the Hegemony of the Green Revolution: A Case Study of an Organic Rice Cooperative in Taiwan

Chen

2011

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Jo

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Increasing productivity through high-yield, high-response, chemicaldependent food crop cultivars to stabilize rural society-that was the Cold War -era social-technical strategy commonly known as the Green Revolution. A similar strategy was implemented in Taiwan in the 1950s as part of a rural reconstruction program sponsored by the United States. Aside from establishing a comprehensive web of social-technical institutions associated with modern agriculture, with the focus on the highly regulated rice sector, the program left a profound and multifaceted legacy in rural Taiwan, affecting social norms no less than it did the landscape. The authors of this article look at how the Green Revolution legacy affected an organic rice cooperative in Meinung, Taiwan. Decades of rural-urban migration have made agricultural machinery a necessity for most farmers. A tight relationship between machine service providers and the seedling production system confines farmers' choices of cultivars to those that are designed for modern cultivation, and these are not often well suited to organic methods. In addition, the comprehensive public technical-social support system that fostered the Green Revolution -style agriculture hardly exists for organic farmers in today's ethos of privatization. Those interwoven factors seriously hinder attempts to deviate from the modern agriculture's chemical-dependent path of agriculture.

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“…The art of governing in modern societies has always depended on "'geopolitics', whereby the state uses technological means to transform the land into both a resource for administration and a symbol" (Mukerji, 1994). In the longue durée of infrastructure development, infrastructure is an integral part of the architectures of modernity, be it as an element of nation-state formation, of countless efforts of modern state governments to impose a singular order on society, or as an element in late modern attempts at governing increasingly complex urban fabrics.…”

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Infrastructures of Society, Anthropology of

Niewöhner

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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The concept of infrastructure refers to the embedded, often invisible technical support structures that help to deliver services to a population or organization, most commonly water, energy, and information. Infrastructures mediate human interaction and shape social organization. Anthropology has developed a relational perspective on infrastructures analyzing them as the ongoing interweaving of embodied social and political choices, moral orders, and technical networks. This approach has much to offer for anthropologists, because it is largely based on ethnographic research, shows a deep commitment to materiality as practice and provides a productive way of thinking through the changing relations of center and periphery. It is an area of research with important intersections into the information sciences and urban studies.

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The political mobilization of nature in seventeenth-century French formal gardens

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The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health

The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health

Technological Momentum and the Hegemony of the Green Revolution: A Case Study of an Organic Rice Cooperative in Taiwan

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