By Lorraine Code
How may well ecological considering animate an epistemology in a position to addressing feminist, multicultural, and different post-colonial matters? ranging from an epistemological method implicit in Rachel Carson's medical perform, Lorraine Code elaborates the inventive, restructuring assets of ecology for a idea of data. She opinions the instrumental rationality, summary individualism, and exploitation of individuals and areas that western epistemologies of mastery have legitimated, to suggest a politics of epistemic situation, delicate to the interaction of particularity and variety, and interested in dependable epistemic perform.
Drawing on ecological concept and perform, on naturalized epistemology, and on feminist and post-colonial theories, Code analyzes prolonged examples from developmental psychology, and from "natural" associations of data production--medicine and legislations. those associations lend themselves good to a reconfigured naturalism. they're, in perform, empirically-scientifically educated, particularly located, and in the neighborhood interpretive. With human topics as their "objects" of information, they invoke the accountability necessities primary to Code's higher venture.
This publication discusses a variety of literature in philosophy, social technological know-how, and ethico-political inspiration. hugely cutting edge, it's going to generate effective conversations in feminist concept, and within the ethics and politics of data extra widely conceived.
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