The Politics of Scale

The Politics of Scale
Author: Nathan F. Sayre
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 022608325X

Steeped in US soil, this first global history of rangeland science looks to the origin of rangeland ecology in the late nineteenth-century American West, exploring the larger political and economic forces that - together with scientific study - produced legacies focused on immediate economic success rather than long-term ecological well-being. Neither scientists nor public agencies could escape the influences of bureaucrats and ranchers who demanded results, and the ideas that became scientific orthodoxy - from fire suppression and predator control to fencing and carrying capacities - contained flaws and blind spots that plague public debates to this day. The Politics of Scale identifies the sources of these conflicts and mistakes and helps us to see a more promising path forward, one in which rangeland science is guided less by capital and the state and more by communities working in collaboration with scientists. -- from back cover.

Politics of Scale

Politics of Scale
Author: Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789200172

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
Author: Joe Doherty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 134922183X

The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat to transform the social sciences radically. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences examines the nature and potential of this postmodernist challenge in each of the major social sciences. Starting with the practices of particular disciplines and proceeding to matters of shared concern, the essays provide an accessible discussion of the contemporary impact of postmodernism on social scientific thought.

Scale and Geographic Inquiry

Scale and Geographic Inquiry
Author: Eric Sheppard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470999152

This book is the first contemporary book to compare and integrate the various ways geographers think about and use scale across the spectrum of the discipline and includes state-of-the-art contributions by authoritative human geographers, physical geographers and GIS specialists. Provides a state of the art survey of how geographers think about scale. Brings together recent interest in scale in human and physical geography, as well as geographic information science Places competing concepts of scale side by side in order to compare them. The introduction and conclusion, by the editors, explores the common ground.

Negotiating Water Governance

Negotiating Water Governance
Author: Emma S. Norman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1317089170

Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and crossing boundaries of all kinds. As a result, water governance has much to do with the question of boundaries and scale: who is in and who is out of decision-making structures? Which of the many boundaries that water crosses should be used for decision-making related to its governance? Recently, efforts to understand the relationship between water and political boundaries have come to the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments? How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics and power play out in water governance? This book brings together and connects the work of scholars to engage with such questions. The introduction of scalar debates into water governance discussions is a significant advancement of both governance studies and scalar theory: decision-making with respect to water is often, implicitly, a decision about scale and its related politics. When water managers or scholars explore municipal water service delivery systems, argue that integrated approaches to salmon stewardship are critical to their survival, query the damming of a river to provide power to another region and investigate access to potable water - they are deliberating the politics of scale. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the volume offers an overview and advancement of both scalar and governance studies while examining practical solutions to the challenges of water governance.

The Tumultuous Politics of Scale

The Tumultuous Politics of Scale
Author: Donald M. Nonini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2020
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780367186265

"Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Consisting of contributions from anthropologists, geographers and cultural studies scholars, this volume explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and spatial scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global"--

Population and Politics

Population and Politics
Author: John Gerring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108494137

Analyzes scale effects across a range of political dimensions, encompassing different political levels using a multi-method approach.

Local Elections and the Politics of Small-scale Democracy

Local Elections and the Politics of Small-scale Democracy
Author: J. Eric Oliver
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691143560

Offers comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in America's municipalities. Arguing that explanations of voting behavior are ill suited for local contests, the author puts forward a theory that the differences between local, state, and national democracies.

The Politics of Scale in Policy

The Politics of Scale in Policy
Author: Natalie Papanastasiou
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-05-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447343859

Succeeding in the art of contemporary policymaking involves designing policies which reflect the deeply interconnected nature of political space. Nevertheless, policy continues to be articulated through age-old categories and hierarchies of scale. This book asks why scale occupies this enduring position of privilege in policymaking, highlighting how scales are far from ‘natural’ features of policy and that they are instead essential to the armoury of policy practice. Drawing on empirical data from the field of education governance, the book traces how scales are crafted and mobilised in policymaking practices, demonstrating that ‘scalecraft’ is key to understanding the production of hegemony.

Geographies of Power

Geographies of Power
Author: Andrew Herod
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0470775203

At a time when references to things ‘global' have gained more currency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and space behind the politics of geographical scale. Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life. Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism. Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.