Social Nature is the core concept of a geographical work on the social construction of nature, entitled Social nature: theory, practice and politics, which was published by Noel Castree and Bruce Braun in 2001.[1]
The book says that the concept of Social Nature was created by critical geographers and embraces the idea of a socialized nature. Critical geographers like David Harvey and Neil Smith "insisted that nature is social in three related ways":[2]
- Knowledge "of nature is invariably inflected with the biases of the" knowers,
- "Though knowledges of nature are social through and through, the social dimensions of nature are not reducible to knowledge alone",
- Societies "physically reconstitute nature, both intentionally and unintentionally", to the point of internalizing nature into social processes (particularly in advanced Western societies).
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