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The return of nature?

The return of nature? 454090 CGJ0010.1177/1474474012454090Cultural Geographies XX(X)review essay review essay cultural geographies 19(4) 547 –552 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474012454090 cgj.sagepub.com Noel Castree Manchester University, UK Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. By Nigel Clark. London: Sage. 2011. 267 pp. £63.00 cloth. ISBN 9780761957256 Published under the auspices of the journal Theory, Culture & Society, Inhuman Nature is one of the most interesting monographs I have encountered in many years. The questions it raises and the answers it provides are not only relevant to all of human geography’s sub-fields (including cultural geography) but to physical geography’s component branches as well. This said, Nigel Clark’s academic training lies outside geography, and his book’s back-cover endorsements come from two sociologists (Myra Hird and Adrian Franklin). But it’s not too hard to make direct connections between his plenary analysis of Anglophone social science, the humanities and the Earth sciences, and the way in which Anglophone geographers think about, interrogate and de/politicize ‘nature’. Clark’s book could, as Franklin justifiably opines, ‘[be] one of the most important [monographs] … you’re ever likely to read’. I will summarize the claims and contentions of Inhuman Nature before identifying its principal implications http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

The return of nature?

Castree, Noel
Cultural Geographies , Volume 19 (4): 6 – Oct 1, 2012
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454090 CGJ0010.1177/1474474012454090Cultural Geographies XX(X)review essay review essay cultural geographies 19(4) 547 –552 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474012454090 cgj.sagepub.com Noel Castree Manchester University, UK Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. By Nigel Clark. London: Sage. 2011. 267 pp. £63.00 cloth. ISBN 9780761957256 Published under the auspices of the journal Theory, Culture & Society, Inhuman Nature is one of the most interesting monographs I have encountered in many years. The questions it raises and the answers it provides are not only relevant to all of human geography’s sub-fields (including cultural geography) but to physical geography’s component branches as well. This said, Nigel Clark’s academic training lies outside geography, and his book’s back-cover endorsements come from two sociologists (Myra Hird and Adrian Franklin). But it’s not too hard to make direct connections between his plenary analysis of Anglophone social science, the humanities and the Earth sciences, and the way in which Anglophone geographers think about, interrogate and de/politicize ‘nature’. Clark’s book could, as Franklin justifiably opines, ‘[be] one of the most important [monographs] … you’re ever likely to read’. I will summarize the claims and contentions of Inhuman Nature before identifying its principal implications

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