Socionature[1] is the idea that nature and humanity are one and the same and can be thought of or referenced as a single concept.[2] An example of this perspective would be the difference in experience two cultures might have with a drought. One culture might view drought as a form of natural variability in the environment and store surplus food for these times. Another culture might be engaged in for profit farming and see the drought as a damaging natural crisis. The first culture would be an example of a socionature viewpoint.
Definition and link to Marxist critique
In the Encyclopedia of Geography,[3] Christopher Bear explained:
"Socionature is a concept that is used to argue that society and nature are inseparable and should not be analyzed in abstraction from each other. The concept is rooted in – but operates as a critique of – Marxist approaches such as historical materialism and post-structural approaches such as actor-network theory. Drawing on the former, it emphasizes temporality and processes of becoming, while its engagement with post-structural thought leads to a focus on ontological hybridity. At the heart of research on socionatures is an interest in processes of their production, and especially on the labour that is involved and the uneven power relationships that emerge."
References
- ^ Mayhew, Susan (May 21, 2015). A Dictionary of Geography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199680856.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-968085-6 – via www.oxfordreference.com.
- ^ Foster, John Bellamy; Clark, Brett (September 1, 2016). "Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology". Monthly Review. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ Bear, Christopher (2017-03-06), "Socio-Nature", in Richardson, Douglas; Castree, Noel; Goodchild, Michael F.; Kobayashi, Audrey (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 1–5, doi:10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0212, ISBN 978-0-470-65963-2, retrieved 2021-08-06
Further reading
- Inderberg, T.H.; Eriksen, S.; O'Brien, K.; Sygna, L. (2014). "Chapter 12: A Socionature Approach to Adaptation". Climate Change Adaptation and Development: Transforming Paradigms and Practices. Taylor & Francis. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-1-317-68506-7. (subscription required)
- Anderson, J. (2015). Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces. EBL-Schweitzer. Taylor & Francis. pp. 161–165. ISBN 978-1-317-82139-7.
- Desfor, G.; Laidley, J.; Stevens, Q.; Schubert, D. (2010). Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow. Routledge Advances in Geography. Taylor & Francis. p. pt197. ISBN 978-1-136-89771-9.
- Ioris, Antonio Augusto Rossotto (2014). The Political Ecology of the State: The Basis and the Evolution of Environmental Statehood. Routledge Studies in Political Ecology. Taylor & Francis. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-317-93662-6.
- For a Sociology of ‘Socionature’: Ontology and the Commodity-Based Approach
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0212
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