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Knowing Nature
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Author : Mara J. Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Knowing Nature written by Mara J. Goldman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Nature categories.
In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development.
Knowing Nature
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Author : Mara J. Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Knowing Nature written by Mara J. Goldman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Science categories.
Political ecology and science studies have found fertile meeting ground in environmental studies. While the two distinct areas of inquiry approach the environment from different perspectives—one focusing on the politics of resource access and the other on the construction and perception of knowledge—their work is actually more closely aligned now than ever before. Knowing Nature brings together political ecologists and science studies scholars to showcase the key points of encounter between the two fields and how this intellectual mingling creates a lively and more robust ecological framework for the study of environmental politics. The contributors all actively work at the interface between these two fields, and here they use empirical material to explore questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics that surround nature-society relations, from wildlife management in the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. In addition, they examine how various environmental knowledge claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accepted (or rejected) by the different actors involved in specific cases of environmental management, conservation, and development. Finally, they ask what is at stake in the struggles surrounding environmental knowledge, how such struggles shape conceptions of the environment, and whose interests are served in the process.
Knowing Nature In Early Modern Europe
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Author : David Beck
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Knowing Nature In Early Modern Europe written by David Beck and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.
Knowing Nature Knowing Science
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Author : Eeva K. Berglund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Knowing Nature Knowing Science written by Eeva K. Berglund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.
This text focuses on three different groups of civil activists protesting against infrastructure installations, and on their understanding of science. The role of science is revealed as an ambivalent one for environmental activism, and it is also shown to pose problems for anthropology: in looking at environmental activism as a social commitment, meaningful commentary must combine both social and scientific perspectives.
Narrating Nature
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Author : Mara Jill Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Narrating Nature written by Mara Jill Goldman and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Social Science categories.
The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Knowing Global Environments
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Author : Jeremy Vetter
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-24
Knowing Global Environments written by Jeremy Vetter and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-24 with Nature categories.
Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology. Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate, biodiversity, oceans, and more. Contributors to Knowing Global Environments reveal how the field sciences have interacted with practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators.
Knowing The Structure Of Nature
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Author : S. Psillos
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Knowing The Structure Of Nature written by S. Psillos and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Science categories.
In this sequel to the highly acclaimed Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth , Psillos discusses recent developments in scientific realism and explores realist theses and commitments. He examines the structuralist turn in the philosophy of science and offers a framework within which inference to the best explanation can be defended.
Nature Culture And History
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Author : K. R. Howe
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-03-01
Nature Culture And History written by K. R. Howe and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-01 with History categories.
Explores the changing ways in which Pacific Islanders have been seen and represented by outsiders over the last 200 years. The Pacific Islands has been a testing ground for various Western ideas and ideologies and the author looks at this long intellectual history as an artifact of the Western imagination. Of particular concern is to see how concepts of nature, culture and history have defined Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders.
Unity Of Knowing And Acting In Kant
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Author : Saju Chackalackal
language : en
Publisher: Saju Chackalackal
Release Date : 2002
Unity Of Knowing And Acting In Kant written by Saju Chackalackal and has been published by Saju Chackalackal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
Transpersonal Knowing
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Author : Tobin Hart
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2000-07-20
Transpersonal Knowing written by Tobin Hart and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-20 with Psychology categories.
Offering the perspectives of some of the most respected thinkers in transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies, this book explores the farther reaches of knowing, both ourselves and the world, described here as transpersonal, post-conventional, or spiritual. The contributors' work is presented from their own authentic knowing, whether through personal narrative or through conceptualization informed by such knowing. They explore what "knowledge" can consist of as it stretches beyond conventional objective observation and analysis. Contributors include Arthur Deikman, Jorge Ferrer, Fred J. Hanna, Tobin Hart, Zia Inyhat Khan, Peter L. Nelson, Kaisa Puhakka, Donald Rothberg, Jenny Wade, Michael Washburn, and John Welwood.