Wilderness, Nature and Society
Contributions to the history of an environmental attitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8384027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D N Jeans (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170-182 |
| Publication date | 1983-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Geographical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9190 • E-ISSN: 1467-8470 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8470.1983.tb00442.x |
| OpenAlex | W2053083299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
The depth of feeling now seen in the struggle over environmental conservation can, with the aid of scholars in other disciplines, be traced to the central importance of Nature in the ideology of Western Society. The late seventeenth century is seen as the period of an ideological transformation in which Nature, at first under the tutelage of God, came to set the terms for social definition and debate. As a flexible metaconcept, Nature became a weapon of social control for a hegemonic centre and, at the same time, a vehicle of protest for the social periphery. Further ambiguity arises from the intersection of this development with the devaluation of Nature as a commodity within the capitalist system, which intensifies the element of protest in the use of Nature as a social category
Ambiguity · Commodity · Devaluation · Element (criminal law · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Feeling · Hegemony · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wilderness · Animal Law and Welfare · Ecology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy
Purity and Danger
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
Conservation And The Gospel Of Efficiency
Marxism and Literary Criticism
The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance
Ideology, science and human geography
Where the Wasteland Ends
Structure, Consciousness, and History
The Concept of Nature in Geography and Marxism
The Concept of Nature in Geography and Marxism
Rousseau
Prophetic Waters
The Figure in the Landscape
John Muir's Image of the West 1
The Dimigod's Dilemma∗
Social and Cultural Dynamics
The Changing English Landscape
The Development of the Appreciation of Mountain Scenery in Modern Times
American Environmentalism
Madness and Civilization
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 1993 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |