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Working With Nature In Aotearoa New Zealand : An Ethnographyof Coastal Protection
Paperback Edition: 1
This rich ethnography analyzes coastal protection as a sociomaterial practice. Coastal protection, Friederike Gesing argues, co-produces natural and cultural orders. In the context of the Aotearoa New Zealand coast, the book follows the emergence of a new sociotechnical imaginary: coastal management working "with nature" - and not against it. Analysis of a seawall controversy and different coastal protection projects shows how "soft" protection slowly takes hold. Dune restoration volunteers, coastal management experts, surfer-scientists, and Maori conservationists engage in different practices of making coastal nature-cultures: dune restoration as do-it-yourself erosion control, reconstructing native nature, or soft engineering in concert with natural processes.
Featured in the 21 November 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Pages : 350
Publisher : Transcript Verlag
Publication date : 2016-09
Subjects: Non-fiction, New Zealand, NZ Natural History