Nature, Society, and Conjoint Constitution

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ID7464378
AuthorsWilliam B Meyer (0000-0001-9296-8702, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume113
Issue4
Pages519-535
Publication date2023-01-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00167428.2022.2163897
OpenAlexW4313527897
LanguageEN
References cited41

The three themes that dominated Western nature-society thought from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century—a designed earth, environmental influences, and human impact—were joined subsequently by a fourth. It has gone by many labels, of which possibilism has been the most often used, but is best named by the phrase coined by William Freudenburg and his colleagues, conjoint constitution. Asserting that the role played by the environment in human life depends jointly on its physical qualities and the characteristics of the societies with which they interact, it particularly challenges the subordination of the latter to the former implied in the themes of both design and influence. Conjoint constitution and human impact are arguably the themes most congruent with the assumptions and the realities of modernity

Aesthetics · Constitution · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Modernity · Phrase · Political science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions

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