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Author:   Rik Scarce
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781566397292

ISBN 10:   1566397294
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   02 January 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1. NATURE IN THE MAKING Nature's Beginnings Scientists, Rivers, and Salmon Why Salmon? Constructing Nature Classical Social Constructivism: An Overview Macroconstructions and Rationality Rationalization and the Social Construction of Nature Storytelling An Author's Story 2. WHO -- OR WHAT -- IS IN CONTROL HERE? Control, Power, and Salmon Biology Professionalizing Biologists and Salmon: A Brief History Schools of FIsheries Structural Control over Salmon Biology The Political and Economic Milieu Funding Salmon Biology Society and Funding for Salmon Expediency versus Knowledge The Professional Politics of Funding ""Bootlegging"" Research Conclusion: Biologists as Bartleby 3. BIOLOGISTS IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT Control of Salmon by Salmon Biologists Engineering Salmon Systems Laboratories, Field Research, and Control Quantification and Modeling ""Enhancement"": Control by Other Means Assessing Enhancement The Interchangeability of Salmon Salmon Biology and Control over Managers Biologists and Managers Conclusion: Salmon and Biology Transformed 4. THINKING AND MAKING SALMON Cognitive and Physical Constructions Cognitive Constructions Physical Constructions Salmon Hatcheries as Political-Economic Instruments Salmon Hatchery Technology Production in Salmon Biology Hatchery Politics Hatchery Economics Certainty, Prediction, and Tooling An Agrarian Model for Fisheries Hatchery Salmon as ""Different"" The Pro-Hatchery Response New Tools for Tooling Salmon: High-Tech Fish When Salmon Research Themselves The Social Context Genetics and the New Salmon Conclusion: Salmon as Social Fact 5. MYTHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY Science: Myth and the Material Why Mythology? Mythology and Control Mythology and Meaning Contemporary Interpretations of the Myth Concept Mythology's Contradictions Uncertainty and Mythology Uncertainty, Expertise, and Myth Myths and ""Bad Science"" Funding and Bad Science Distinguishing Fact from Bad Science Bad Science: Some Examples Observer-Created Reality Conclusion: Infinite Control? 6. FREEDOM AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN SALMON BIOLOGY Freedom and Control Freedom in Classical Sociological Theory Control/Power versus Self-Determinism and Freedom Biologists' Struggle for Freedom The Scientific Ideal in an Age of Limits The Importance of Interchangeability Conservation Biology, Freedom, and Self-Determination Conservation Biology: The Core Conservation Biology within Salmon Biology Identification and Ethics Advocacy, Acceptance, and Resistance Commonalities with the Fisheries Perspective Conclusion: Back to the Future 7. SALMON WARS AND THE ""NATURE"" OF POLITICS Power to the People? Anatomy of a Fish War Capturing a Fugitive with a Treaty The Salmon War Gets Hot Constructing Complete Communities Conclusion: Nature as We Want It to Be 8. CONSTRUCTING NATURE -- AND EXPERIENCING IT Toward a Sociology of Social-Natural Interactions Knowing a Meaningless Nature APPENDIX. METHODS AND RELATED RESEARCH Data Gathering and Analysis for this Study Grounded Theory The Intellectual Heritage: Prior Works Socially Constructing Science and Technology Socially Constructing Nature Catton and Dunlap: The First Social Constructivists of Nature Landscaping Nature Other Understandings The Anticonstructivists A Change of Face Murphy's Failed Critique of Constructivism NOTES INDEX"

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Scarce shines a revealing light on the inner workings of hatcheries, providing the reader an appreciation of human compulsions to domesticate and control-forces that have influenced our knowledge, or lack of knowledge, of salmon and other natural entities. ... Thoroughly researched, eloquently written, and energetically told, this book dares us to explore our relation to nature and our knowing of ourselves. -Pacific Northwest Quarterly In this book, [Rik Scarce] describes human uses and abuses of Pacific salmon in an attempt to explore the relationship between science, society and nature. He shows how salmon biology has been manipulated in western North America, originally through scientific curiosity, and then exploited for economic gain, causing ongoing strife between factional and ethnic groups and even between nations. He discusses through many interviews with biologists and fishery managers how political, bureaucratic and economic forces have modified and engineered salmon populations for their own purposes by extensive ranching and enhancement of programs, citing examples of the successes and failures that have resulted. -Andrew F. Walker, Environmental Conservation ...Scarce compellingly argues that the emerging field of 'Environmental Sociology' has much to offer. ...Fishy Business is a strong contribution to the growing literature on human/animal relations and Environmental Sociology. Further, in light of the continuing 'Salmon Wars' between Canada and the United States, and other conflicts based upon dwindling 'resources,' Fishy Business is timely and thus well worth a read on that basis alone. -Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

Scarce shines a revealing light on the inner workings of hatcheries, providing the reader an appreciation of human compulsions to domesticate and control--forces that have influenced our knowledge, or lack of knowledge, of salmon and other natural entities. ... Thoroughly researched, eloquently written, and energetically told, this book dares us to explore our relation to nature and our knowing of ourselves. --Pacific Northwest Quarterly In this book, [Rik Scarce] describes human uses and abuses of Pacific salmon in an attempt to explore the relationship between science, society and nature. He shows how salmon biology has been manipulated in western North America, originally through scientific curiosity, and then exploited for economic gain, causing ongoing strife between factional and ethnic groups and even between nations. He discusses through many interviews with biologists and fishery managers how political, bureaucratic and economic forces have modified and engineered salmon populations for their own purposes by extensive ranching and enhancement of programs, citing examples of the successes and failures that have resulted. --Andrew F. Walker, Environmental Conservation

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Rik Scarce is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montana State University and author of the popular and important environmental book Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement.

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