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Who Speaks for Nature? - On the Politics of Science (Hardcover)
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Who Speaks for Nature? - On the Politics of Science (Hardcover)
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When natural scientists speak up in public about the material
phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or
the field, they embody a distinctive version of political
authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient,
though often contested, capacity to give voice to nature? What
efforts on the part of scientists and nonscientists alike determine
who is regarded as a legitimate witness to material reality and
whose speech is discounted as idle chatter, mere opinion, or noise?
In Who Speaks for Nature?, Laura Ephraim reveals the roots of
scientific authority in what she calls "world-building politics":
the collection of practices through which scientists and citizens
collaborate with and struggle against each other to engage natural
things and events and to construct a shared yet heterogeneous
world. Through innovative readings of some of the most important
thinkers of science and politics of the near and distant past,
including Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Giambattista Vico, and
Hannah Arendt, Ephraim argues that the natural sciences are
political because they are crucial sites in which the worldly
relationships that bind together the human and nonhuman are
inherited, augmented, and reconstructed. Who Speaks for Nature?
opens a novel conversation between political theory, science, and
technology studies and augments existing efforts by feminists,
environmentalists, and democratic theorists to challenge the
traditional binary separating nature and politics. In an age of
climate change and climate-change denial, Ephraim brings
theoretical understandings of politics to bear on real-world events
and decisions and uncovers fresh insights into the place of
scientists in public life.
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