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The emergence of BRICS, a complex yet intriguing entity, is representative of the coming together of nations with vastly different histories, cultures, and ideals. The Great Convergence offers new perspectives on it through a collaborative effort of environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
This edited volume attempts to go beyond the economic and geopolitical paradigms to trace the dynamics of environmental change within the ...
Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad 'colonial' sciences had ideological and interventionist traditions distinct from ...