1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910714836403321

Titolo

Bolivia : elections postponed to October

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965987603321

Autore

Code Lorraine

Titolo

Ecological thinking : the politics of epistemic location / / Lorraine Code

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-19-515944-6

1-281-15630-2

9786611156305

0-19-803613-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in feminist philosophy

Disciplina

306.4/2

Soggetti

Knowledge, Sociology of

Ecofeminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, this book presents the creative restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. It critiques the



instrumental rationality, abstract individualism and exploitation of people and places legitimated by western epistemologies.