[PDF.23cb] Binocular Vision: The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides (Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design)

Binocular Vision: The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides (Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design)

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 | #3236360 in Books |  Univ. of Massachusetts Press |  2011-06-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.60 x6.00l,.75 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Provocative, controversial, salutary|By A reading birder|I encourage every birder to read and to ponder this important book. You'll find yourself alternately fascinated and infuriated, and continually inspired to think through these issues yourself.|6 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Great subject, but...|By D. Gregg |"Clearly and engagingly written, Binocular Vision is a work of impressive scope and subtlety that will make an important contribution to the growing field of environmental cultural studies."―Daniel J. Philippon, author of Conserving Words: How Amer

From meadows to marshlands, seashores to suburbs, field guides help us identify many of the things we find outdoors: plants, insects, mammals, birds. In these texts, nature is typically represented, both in words and images, as ordered, clean, and untouched by human technology and development. This preoccupation with species identification, however, has produced an increasingly narrow view of nature, a "binocular vision," that separates the study of individual elements f...

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