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OverviewNature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local ""nature interpreters"" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada's magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature-including scientific knowledge-is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada's vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shiho SatsukaPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780822358800ISBN 10: 0822358808 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 14 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Prologue. A Journey to Magnificent Nature . . . or Why Nature Needs to Be Understood in Translation 1 Introduction 9 1. Narratives of Freedom 39 2. Populist Cosmopolitanism 67 3. The Co-Modification of Self 95 4. Gender in Nature Neverland 122 5. The Interpretation of Nature 147 6. The Allure of Ecology 183 Epilogue. Found in Translation 213 Notes 223 Reference List 241 Index 255ReviewsShiho Satsuka's intimate and rich ethnography vividly and meticulously traces these tour guides' dreams of self-making, aspiration, joys, and--perhaps inevitably--disappointments, through their work as nature's translators. Satsuka reveals the extent to which the conditions of possibility of the way of life they have chosen are critically linked up with post-war Japan-U.S. relations, the accelerated globalization of the Japanese political economy, and the genealogy of the linguistic and social reception of the western concepts such as freedom and subjectivity. Nature in Translation is a sheer joy to read. --Miyako Inoue, author of Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan Author InformationShiho Satsuka is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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