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Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada's magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature-including scientific knowledge-is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada's vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject.
Contents
Notes on Transliteration vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue. A Journey to Magnificent Nature . . . or Why Nature Needs to Be Understood in Translation 1
Introduction 9
1. Narratives of Freedom 39
2. Populist Cosmopolitanism 67
3. The Co-Modification of Self 95
4. Gender in Nature Neverland 122
5. The Interpretation of Nature 147
6. The Allure of Ecology 183
Epilogue. Found in Translation 213
Notes 223
Reference List 241
Index 255
