Politics of Nature
Title | Politics of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno Latour |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0674039963 |
A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.
After Nature
Title | After Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Jedediah Purdy |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674368223 |
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.
Who Speaks for Nature?
Title | Who Speaks for Nature? PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Ephraim |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 081224981X |
Introduction. The Science Question in Political Theory -- Earth to Arendt -- Vico's World of Nature -- Descartes and Democracy -- Hobbes's Worldly Geometry of Politics -- Epilogue. Science and Politics at the End of the World
The Politics of Rights of Nature
Title | The Politics of Rights of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Craig M. Kauffman |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Environmental policy |
ISBN | 9780262366601 |
"On the global development of legislation, treaty negotiations, constitutional measures, and litigation resulting in legal recognition of Rights of Nature (RoN), including the cultural and political influences that determined how these legal rights were framed, the method of adoption and, importantly, the evolution of RoN enforcement through judicial decisions and growing cultural familiarity with the new legal concept"--
The Nature of Politics
Title | The Nature of Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Roger D. Masters |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780300041699 |
Relates politics to the fields of evolutionary biology, social psychology, linguistics, and game theory and looks at the influence of language on politics
Interspecies Politics
Title | Interspecies Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Rafi Youatt |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472131753 |
Politics "with" the environment
The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
Title | The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Maano Ramutsindela |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2016-08-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3905758873 |
This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-temporal juxtaposition is lacking in current research on political ecology while the politics of science appears marginal to critical scholarship on social nature. Specifically, the book examines power relations in nature-related activities, demonstrates conditions under which nature and science are politicised, and also accounts for political interests and struggles over nature in its various forms. The ecological, socio-political and economic dimensions of nature cannot be ignored when dealing with present-day environmental issues. Nature conservation regulations are concerned with the management of flora and fauna as much as with humans. Various chapters in the book pay attention to the ways in which nature, science and politics are interrelated and also co-constitutive of each other. They highlight that power relations are naturalised through science and science-related institutions and projects such as museums, botanical gardens, wetlands, parks and nature reserves.