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Environment and Society - Volume 5 - Nature and Knowledge (Paperback)
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Environment and Society - Volume 5 - Nature and Knowledge (Paperback)
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This volume interrogates the interplay of knowledge, nature, and
value. Emphasizing the relationship between power and knowledge in
the production of environmental facts and values, the authors urge
us to pursue diverse and often marginalized forms of knowledge as a
necessary first step toward a more egalitarian praxis of
environmental science. Debates over nature's value tend to pit
instrumentalist valuations of nature against intrinsic values, or
ethically rich "cultural" values versus ethically empty economic
values. The opening contributions to this volume explore how
knowledge is produced in creative, plural ways even within what
appear to be homogenous domains, and contest the primacy of the
market as the exclusive arbiter of value. From the value provided
by marine ecosystems to the market in offsets to the dynamics of
gentrification, tremendous social labor goes into creating the
"natural" force of markets in nature. Like nature itself, the
markets made in this domain are deeply social, and sometimes
flimsily constructed. By drawing out the creative contingency of
socionatural world making, the authors in this collection penetrate
the veneer of nature's value to reveal a rich ground for critical
inquiry-and action.
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