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Author Hermer, Joe, 1967-

Title Regulating Eden : the nature of order in North American parks / Joe Hermer
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 150 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents 1. The Emparkment of Nature -- 2. The Ranger Mission -- 3. Regulating Park Space -- 4. The Regulation of Conduct -- 5. The Emparkment of Order
Summary State and Provincial Parks are represented as inherently natural places set apart from the disorder of everyday life, places that are intrinsically 'wild' and must be protected. Yet, in order to experience the naturalness and freedom of the parks, we must embrace the very forms of regulation that we closely associate with places we consider to be artificial, restrictive, and alienating. Drawing on a wide range of documents used to govern park jurisdictions, Joseph Hermer explores the character and consequences of the contradiction posed by the 'regulated Eden' of park destinations. Central to his analysis of parks as historically specific sites of governance is the notion of 'emparkment, ' the practises and discourses that manufacture wildness and nature through specific forms of spatial and temporal regulation. Using theoretical literature from the sociology of law and cultural geography, Hermer argues that emparkment order is driven primarily through discourses of both personal and environmental risk and results in an interdependency that generates powerful moralizing effects. He suggests that the mode of power constituted by emparkment is a mirror not only of how nature is configured in an era of environmental toxification, but also of how the experience of freedom itself is constructed in a society frequently characterized as repressive. Challenging us to re-think the place we have given to 'nature' in the protection of ecologically valuable landscapes, Hermer urges us to consider, too, the forms by which we govern ourselves in the moral order of daily life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Parks -- Law and legislation -- Canada
Parks -- Law and legislation -- United States
Parks -- Canada -- Management
Parks -- United States -- Management
Parks -- Social aspects -- Canada
Parks -- Social aspects -- United States
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Parks -- Law and legislation
Parks -- Management
Parks -- Social aspects
Canada
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442679160
1442679166
1282028634
9781282028630
9786612028632
6612028637