Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
An Ethnography of Coastal Protection
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Word Count
87,500 words, Guess
Page Count
350 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28611111M
- ISBN-139783837634464
- OCLC Control Number947816968
- Library of Congress Control Number2016592939
Classifications
- LCCTC322.5.G47 2016
Description
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.
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