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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159446
• ISBN13: 9780195159448
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"