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This rich ethnography analyses coastal protection as a sociomaterial practice. Coastal protection, Friederike Gesing argues, coproduces natural and cultural orders. In the context of the Aotearoa New Zealand coast, it follows the emergence of a new sociotechnical imaginary: coastal management working "with nature" - and not against it. The analysis of a seawall controversy and of different coastal protection projects shows how "soft" protection slowly takes hold. Dune restoration volunteers, coastal management experts, surfer-scientists, and Maori conservationists engage in different practices of making coastal naturecultures: dune restoration as do-it-yourself erosion control, reconstructing native nature, or soft engineering "in concert with natural processes".

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• Full title: Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Subtitle: An Ethnography of Coastal Protection
• Author: Friederike Gesing
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9783837634464
• ISBN: 3837634469
• ID: 02864606
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 23 × 147 × 2 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. June 2016

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