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

• Autore: Code Lorraine
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/2
• Soggetto topico: Knowledge, Sociology of; Ecofeminism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Ecological Thinking: Subversions and Transformations""; ""2 Ecological Naturalism""; ""3 Negotiating Empiricism""; ""4 Ecological Subjectivity in the Making: ""The Child as Fact and Artifact"" ""; ""5 Patterns of Autonomy, Acknowledgment, and Advocacy""; ""6 Rational Imagining, Responsible Knowing""; ""7 Public Knowledge, Public Trust: Toward Democratic Epistemic Practices""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O"" ; ""P""""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecological thinking
• ISBN: 0-19-515944-6; 1-281-15630-2; 9786611156305; 0-19-803613-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818477103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in feminist philosophy.