How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological ConditionYrjo Haila, Chuck Dyke Duke University Press, 17/03/2006 - 334 páginas How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality—situated rather than absolute knowledge—in studies of nature by people embedded within the very thing they purport to study from the outside. The contributors address the complicated relationship between scientists and nature as part of a broader reassessment of how we conceive of ourselves, knowledge, and the world that we both inhabit and shape. Exploring ways of conceiving the complexity and multiplicity of humans’ many interactive relationships with the environment, the contributors provide in-depth case studies of the interweaving of culture and nature in socio-historical processes. The case studies focus on the origin of environmental movements, the politicization of environmental issues in city politics, the development of a local energy production system, and the convergence of forest management practices toward a dominant scheme. They are supported by explorations of big-picture issues: recurring themes in studies of social and environmental dynamics, the difficulties of deliberative democracy, and the potential gains for socio-ecological research offered by developmental systems theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of intentionality. How Nature Speaks includes a helpful primer, “On Thinking Dynamically about the Human Ecological Condition,” which explains the basic principles of complexity and nonlinear thinking. Contributors. Chuck Dyke, Yrjö Haila, Ari Jokinen, Ville Lähde, Markus Laine, Iordanis Marcoulatos, John O’Neill, Susan Oyama, Taru Peltola, Lasse Peltonen, John Shotter, Peter Taylor |
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... object of some science or other . We have to step back from the specificities of environmental prob- lems but avoid falling into the abyss of the humanity - nature dualism . For this purpose , metaphoric work is needed . This book is ...
... object , the pendulum is a simple harmonic oscillator , but strictly speaking , a pendulum is a model of a damped oscillator . The pendulum can be used as an illustration of a harmonic oscillator that exists only as an idealization and ...
... objects in their own right . Such a shift in the mode of reasoning from analogue to analytic has often been remarkably successful , as the broad applicability of mathematics in the sciences testifies . Thus , for instance , Peter ...
... object , which is so pervasive in the Western philosophical tradition . What is most urgently needed if we want to make use of the concept of harmony is a dynamic perspective . Aristotle shares a static view with most of his fellow ...
... object as " passive pole . " Ultimately , when pondering harmony and related issues , we have to get beyond the static , equilibrium imagery that such thinking in terms of simple dichotomies preserves . TEMPORAL HORIZONS Everything that ...
Índice
Speaking of Nature | 49 |
A Hoary Story | 66 |
An Exploration into the Historical Nature of Environmental Problems | 78 |
Seeing the Face and Hearing the Voice of Nature | 106 |
A Bourdieuian Perspective | 127 |
An Analogical Account of Environmental Mobilization | 150 |
A Sneaking Transformation of a Local Political Field | 177 |
Standardization and Entrainment in Forest Management | 198 |
Stability and Change in a Local Energy Production System | 218 |
Exploring Themes about Social Agency through Interpretation of Diagrams of Nature and Society | 235 |
Who Speaks for Nature? | 261 |
Primer On Thinking Dynamically about the Human Ecological Condition | 279 |
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NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS | 321 |
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