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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2018  
         
  Article:   ASSESSING NATURE: BETWEEN ZONES OF EXPLOITATION AND PROTECTION. GUEST EDITORS’ FOREWORD.

Authors:  ÁGOTA ÁBRÁN, IULIA HURDUCAȘ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Nature is a domain where the scientific, the capital, and the political meet, in constant negotiation and making of Nature. By Nature with a capital ‘N’ we mean an abstract concept of Nature as one external and in contrast to Society with a capital ‘S’. While these concepts are abstracts, they are at the same time very real in that they have to be made, maintained, and are acted upon, thus shaping reality (see Latour, 2004; Moore, 2015). The result of this making of Nature is by no way fixed and is often contested as claims on the protection and exploitation of Nature are made. We understand the exploitation of Nature as embedded in a neoliberal agenda of both resource extraction and touristic attraction, while nature’s protection oscillates between ascribing degrees of intervention and the exclusion of humans from other than human environments, such as what is proclaimed as wilderness. Yet on the ground, human and other than human interaction is a practice of assessment, judgement, and selection, where questions of right, of emotional attachments, and the survival and reproduction of species - human and non-human - are put to the test.  
         
     
         
         
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