<b>Introduction: posthumanism in question</b> Noel Castree, Catherine Nash<br> <b>Mapping posthumanism</b> Neil Badmington<br> <b>Modalities of posthumanism</b> Bruce Braun<br> <b>Humanising posthumanism</b> Jonathan Murdoch<br> <b>Humanism's excess: some thoughts on the 'post-human/ist' agenda</b> Sarah Whatmore<br> <br>Organisors: Noel Castree,...

In ecological, environmental, and urban-regeneration terms, the participatory turn and the turn to action have been written about at length in both academic and official literatures. From neighbourhood renewal to lay ecologies, people are being ‘given’ all kinds of agency in the making of...

There is a growing realisation that agriculture is a central mechanism for delivering sustainable rural development in Europe. However, agro-industrial and postproductivist logics and dynamics have largely tended to marginalise its significance. In this paper we explore some of the conceptual...

In this paper we review the current policy approach to skills and knowledge for sustainable communities. The aspatial and target-led nature of these approaches around the attainment of fixed skill sets is discussed and then contrasted with educationalist literatures which provide an alternative...

This paper explores the expertise of field-level advisors in rural land management. The context is the English uplands and negotiation over a Higher Level Stewardship agreement. An observed encounter between a hill farmer, his retained land agent, and an ecologist working for Natural England...

In a recent paper in this journal it was suggested that the conventional knowledge practices of disciplines are the fundamental obstacle to mutual understanding between academic experts. Such a position, we argue, underplays the institutional relationships that recreate expert and disciplinary...

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