scholarly journals Political ecology of Bruno Latour

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-125
Author(s):  
Ana Biresev
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Collective Representation ◽  
Political Implications

The paper explores Latour?s conception of political ecology and its theoretical and political implications. The first part of the paper shows Latour?s critique of theoretical frameworks of scientific and political practices, which, in his opinion, constrain a true discussion on ecological crises by simplifying them and putting them into readymade interpretative models. The second part of the paper examines the notions - the collective, representation, propositions, articulation, and parliament of things - central to understanding Latour?s idea of involvement of humans and non-humans in politics. Finally, the paper explores the potentials and constraints of Latour?s idea of political community of new political subjects (hybrid entities), which is constituted in controversies and through controversies.

The Politcal Economy of Knowledge Management in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 2301-2313
Author(s):  
Amy Scott Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communications Technologies

In this chapter, I discuss the economic and political implications of knowledge management in higher education. First, I examine the linkages between KM and capitalism, with the help of theoretical frameworks that connect increasing managerialism in higher education with the promises of profit-making in the New (Knowledge) Economy. Next, I discuss the politics of information and the ways in which knowledge is stratified in postsecondary institutions. Third, the social dynamics of information and communications technologies (ICT) are explored in the context of higher education institutions. These perspectives provide a counter-balance to the decidedly functionalist views of much of the knowledge managementliterature. The intent of the chapter is to provide a foundation for the rest of the volume and the more specific studies of KM in higher education to follow.

Latour’s Modern Is Fanon’s Manichaean

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-194
Author(s):  
Emily Anne Parker
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
The Third ◽  
Adequate Response

The third chapter looks to the work of Bruno Latour and Frantz Fanon, each of whom offers a way of bridging the concerns of Barad and Hartman. Latour and Fanon are often read as primary sources in political ecology and performativity respectively. And yet political ecology and social construction each represent a polarization explored in different ways by Latour and Fanon themselves. This chapter argues that Latour’s denunciation of the modern is helpful, but it does not offer an adequate response to ecofascism. This chapter argues that Fanon’s exposition offers a better framework for bridging the ecological and the political. Although Fanon’s work concurs, with Latour, that that which is biological is polarized with respect to the political, Fanon suggests that the biological is not understood to be without agency so much as it is problematically agential. This chapter completes the philosophy of elemental difference begun in Chapter 1.

scholarly journals Theoretical frameworks in political ecology and participatory nature/forest conservation: the necessity for a heterodox approach and the critical moment

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Moment Analysis ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Key Events

In this paper I review the major theoretical approaches to political ecology, and then introduce a research tool. The critical moment is a noticeable historical instance or interaction. Given the fluidity in the theoretical frameworks of political ecology and the growing dominance of participatory discourse, exploring critical moments provides a foundation for a heterodox approach to explaining human/society/nature relations. It is a way to uncover the multidimensional interpretation of power involving environmental actors, struggles, and key events. One of the key research areas for political ecology is the conservation of nature and forest environments, and the use of the critical moment is explored in these.Key words: Political ecology, critical moment analysis, conservation, Bangladesh

A Conversation with Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz: Reassembling the Geo-Social

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 215-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Valentin Stein Pedersen ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Nikolaj Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Climatic Regime

Including empirical examples and theoretical clarifications on many of the analytical issues raised in his recently published Down to Earth (2018), this conversation with Bruno Latour and his collaborator, Danish sociologist Nikolaj Schultz, offers key insights into Latour’s recent and ongoing work. Revolving around questions on political ecology and social theory in our ‘New Climatic Regime’, Latour argues that in order to have politics you need a land and you need a people. This interview present reflections on such politics, such land and such people, and it ends with a call for a sociology that takes up the task of connecting the three by investigating what he and Schultz call ‘geo-social classes’. The interview was conducted by Jakob Stein in Paris in November 2018.

scholarly journals Critical political ecology and the seductions of posthumanism

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fayaz Chagani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Domains ◽  
Modes Of Existence ◽  
Conceptual Resources

"Posthumanist" theories have become increasingly popular among scholars in political ecology and other fields in the human sciences. The hope is that they will improve our grasp of relations between humans and various nonhumans and, in the process, offer the means to recompose the "social" and the "natural" domains. In this paper, I assess the merits of posthumanisms for critical scholarship. Looking specifically at the work of Bruno Latour (including his latest book, An inquiry into modes of existence) and Donna Haraway, I argue that posthumanist thinking offers not only analytical but normative advantages over conventional and even Marxian approaches. But these newer frameworks contain their own ethico-political limitations and, to the extent that they are useful for addressing conditions of injustice, they continue to depend upon conceptual resources from their precursors. For this reason, a critical political ecology would best be served by preserving a tension between humanist and posthumanist methods.Keywords: posthumanism, critical theory, political ecology, human-nonhuman relations, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway

The Politcal Economy of Knowledge Management in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Scott Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communications Technologies

In this chapter, I discuss the economic and political implications of knowledge management in higher education. First, I examine the linkages between KM and capitalism, with the help of theoretical frameworks that connect increasing managerialism in higher education with the promises of profit-making in the New (Knowledge) Economy. Next, I discuss the politics of information and the ways in which knowledge is stratified in postsecondary institutions. Third, the social dynamics of information and communications technologies (ICT) are explored in the context of higher education institutions. These perspectives provide a counter-balance to the decidedly functionalist views of much of the knowledge managementliterature. The intent of the chapter is to provide a foundation for the rest of the volume and the more specific studies of KM in higher education to follow.

Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants

2021 ◽  
pp. 030913252110549
Author(s):  
Lucía Argüelles ◽  
Hug March
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Invasive Plants ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Spontaneous Vegetation ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
New Research ◽  
Human Social Life

This paper presents a vegetal political ecology of weeds. Weeds have barely been analysed in the burgeoning field of ‘more-than-human’ scholarship, this despite their ubiquity and considerable impact on human social life. We review how geographical scholarship has represented weeds’ material and political status: mostly as invasive plants, annoying species in private gardens and spontaneous vegetation in urbanized landscapes. Then, bringing together weed science, agronomic science and the critical geography of agriculture, we show how weeds ecology, weeds management and the environmental problems which weeds are entangled have critically shaped the industrial agriculture paradigm. Three main arguments emerging from our analysis open up new research avenues: weeds’ disruptive character might shape our understanding of human-plant relationships; human-weeds relation in agriculture have non-trivial socio-economic and political implications; and more-than-human approaches, such as vegetal political ecology, might challenge dominant modes of considering and practicing agriculture.

In Search of a Perfect Match: Jian’an (196-220) Writing about Women and the Formation of a Literati Community

NAN Nü ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-223
Author(s):  
Qiulei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Perfect Match ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Representations Of Women ◽  
Divine Beauty

AbstractThe pursuit of divine women or women with divine beauty is a common theme in the earliest works of Chinese literature. Many fu (rhapsodies) composed at the Western Han courts feature the speaker’s failed pursuit of a beautiful woman. Yet during the Jian’an period, the image of a seductive yet inaccessible woman lost its prominence in the literary imagination and was replaced by a lonely beauty yearning for a worthy match and lamenting the swift passage of time. This transformation had much to do with the social and cultural transitions of this particular historical moment. This article places Jian’an representations of women in the context of group composition and literary communication at the Cao courts, and discusses the literary and political implications of these representations in comparison with previous court writing about women. The article argues that under a new environment of court writing, Jian’an literati transformed the image of beautiful women from the embodiment of imperial power and privilege into the symbol of their ideal personality and shared values. Writing about women became a crucial means to forming a literary and political community, and defining that community’s values and principles in a troubled time.

scholarly journals Global tourism in crisis: conceptual frameworks for research and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-294
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Cheer ◽  
Dominic Lapointe ◽  
Mary Mostafanezhad ◽  
Tazim Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Tourism

Purpose The aims of this Editorial are twofold: (i) synthesise emergent themes from the special issue (ii) tender four theoretical frameworks toward examination of crises in tourism. Design/methodology/approach The thematic analysis of papers highlights a diversity of COVID-19 related crises contexts and research approaches. The need for robust theoretical interventions is highlighted through the four proposed conceptual frameworks. Findings Crises provides a valuable seam from which to draw new empirical and theoretical insights. Papers in this special issue address the unfolding of crises in tourism and demonstrate how its theorization demands multi and cross-disciplinary entreaties. This special issue is an invitation to examine how global crises in tourism can be more clearly appraised and theorised. The nature of crisis, and the extent to which the global tourism community can continue to adapt remains in question, as dialogues juxtapose the contradictions between tourism growth and tourism sustainability, and between building back better and returning to normal. Originality/value The appraisal of four conceptual frameworks, little used in tourism research provides markers of the theoretical rigour and novelty so often sought. Beck’s risk society reconceptualises risk and the extent to which risk is manmade. Biopolitics refers to the power over the production and reproduction of life itself, where the political stake corresponds to power over society. The political ecology of crisis denaturalises “natural” disasters and their subsequent crises. Justice complements an ethic of care and values like conative empathy to advance social justice and well-being.

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