Social nature

Social Nature is the core concept of a geographical work on the social construction of nature, entitled Social nature: theory, practice and politics, which was published by Noel Castree and Bruce Braun in 2001.^[1]

The book says that the concept of Social Nature was created by critical geographers and embraces the idea of a socialized nature. Critical geographers like David Harvey and Neil Smith "insisted that nature is social in three related ways":^[2]

• Knowledge "of nature is invariably inflected with the biases of the" knowers,
• "Though knowledges of nature are social through and through, the social dimensions of nature are not reducible to knowledge alone",
• Societies "physically reconstitute nature, both intentionally and unintentionally", to the point of internalizing nature into social processes (particularly in advanced Western societies).