Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations : We Were Never Western (Paperback)

?1. Frontier thinking? 2. Understanding the role of history in the present? 3. Frontier thinking: Why is a distinction drawn between close-to-nature ‘communities’ and ‘modern civilised’ societies or states? ?4. The role of frontier thinking in the development of the American state and society ?5. The following through of frontier myth by Turner and the wilderness movement in the US ?6. Differences in the historical construction of development in Fennoscandian contexts? 7. Consequences of frontier thinking - from state to individual levels ?8. Consequences of frontier thinking on conceptions of the rural ? historically and in present day ?9. Alternative conceptions of rurality in present-day Fennoscandia ?10. Conclusion: What is the social, and what do we base our policies on?

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