{"product_id":"organizing-nature-1","title":"Organizing Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Nature\u003c\/em\u003e explores how the environment is organized in Canada’s resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn tracing transitions from \"ecosystem component\" to \"resource,\" this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources – fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life – the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Nature\u003c\/i\u003e encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575270703286,"sku":"9781487594848","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487594848.jpg?v=1727457240","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/organizing-nature-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}