Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location

by Lorraine Code

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159438
• ISBN13: 9780195159431
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 6.3"