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Ecological Thinking - The Politics of Epistemic Location (Paperback)
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Ecological Thinking - The Politics of Epistemic Location (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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How could ecological thinking animate an epistemology capable of
addressing feminist, multicultural, and other post-colonial
concerns? Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in
Rachel Carson's scientific practice, Lorraine Code elaborates the
creative, restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of
knowledge. She critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract
individualism, and exploitation of people and places that western
epistemologies of mastery have legitimated, to propose a politics
of epistemic location, sensitive to the interplay of particularity
and diversity, and focused on responsible epistemic practice.
Drawing on ecological theory and practice, on naturalized
epistemology, and on feminist and post-colonial theories, Code
analyzes extended examples from developmental psychology, and from
two "natural" institutions of knowledge production--medicine and
law. These institutions lend themselves well to a reconfigured
naturalism. They are, in practice, empirically-scientifically
informed, specifically situated, and locally interpretive. With
human subjects as their "objects" of knowledge, they invoke the
responsibility requirements central to Code's larger project.
This book discusses a wide range of literature in philosophy,
social science, and ethico-political thought. Highly innovative, it
will generate productive conversations in feminist theory, and in
the ethics and politics of knowledge more broadly conceived.
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