For the birds : protecting wildlife through the naturalist gaze /

2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association One in five people in the United States is a birdwatcher, yet the popular understanding of birders reduces them to comical stereotypes, obsessives who only have eyes for their favorite r...

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Tác giả chính: Cherry, Elizabeth, 1977- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Loạt:Nature, society, and culture.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2264746
Mục lục:
  • Becoming a birder
  • The naturalist gaze
  • Common birds and the social construction of nature
  • Wilderness, wildness, and mobility
  • Good birds, bad birds, and animal agency
  • Birding and citizen science
  • Birding as a conservation movement
  • Conclusion.