1st Edition
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations We Were Never Western
Chapter 1. Frontier thinking
Chapter 2. Understanding the role of history in the present
Chapter 3. Frontier thinking: Why is a distinction drawn between close-to-nature ‘communities’ and ‘modern civilised’ societies or states?
Chapter 4. The role of frontier thinking in the development of the American state and society
Chapter 5. The following through of frontier myth by Turner and the wilderness movement in the US
Chapter 6. Differences in the historical construction of development in Fennoscandian contexts
Chapter 7. Consequences of frontier thinking - from state to individual levels
Chapter 8. Consequences of frontier thinking on conceptions of the rural – historically and in present day
Chapter 9. Alternative conceptions of rurality in present-day Fennoscandia
Chapter 10. Conclusion: What is the social, and what do we base our policies on?
Biography
E. C. H. Keskitalo is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Geography, Umeå University. She has published widely on Arctic regional development and environmental and natural resource policy.
