Ecological Thinking The Politics of Epistemic Location

Name: Ecological Thinking The Politics of Epistemic Location
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ISBN: 9780195159448

ISBN-10: 0195159446

ISBN-13: 9780195159448

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lorraine Code

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How could ecological thinking animate an epistemology capable of addressing feminist, multicultural, and other post-colonial concerns? Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, Lorraine Code elaborates the creative, restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. She critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism, and exploitation of people and places that western epistemologies of mastery havelegitimated, to propose a politics of epistemic location, sensitive to the interplay of particularity and diversity, and focused on responsible epistemic practice. Drawing on ecological theory and practice, on naturalized…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction



Ecological Thinking: Subversions and Transformations



Ecological Naturalism



Negotiating Empiricism



Ecological Subjectivity in the Making: "The Child as Fact and Artifact"



Patterns of Autonomy, Acknowledgment, and Advocacy



Rational Imagining, Responsible Knowing



Public Knowledge, Public Trust: Toward Democratic Epistemic Practices


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index