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What's wrong with a one-world world?
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In this article, the authors use science, technology, and society (STS) to show that the North is not mono-natural, and that the enactment of mononaturalism is (1) indeed an enactment and (2) only partial.Abstract:
Western assumptions about the character of the world tend to distinguish between nature, the natural, or the physical on the one hand, and culture, people, and their beliefs on the other: between mononaturalism and multiculturalism. This argument has been well rehearsed in post-colonial and anthropological literatures where it is linked to dominatory or hegemonic ‘Northern’ strategies which naturalize mononaturalism and reduce indigenous realities to beliefs which may be discounted. In this paper I use STS (science, technology, and society) to show that the ‘North’ is not mono-natural, and that the enactment of mononaturalism is (1) indeed an enactment and (2) only partial. The argument is that in the ‘North’ we do not live in a single container universe, but partially participate in multiple realities or a fractiverse. I then explore how we might craft encounters across difference well in contexts where the Northern distinction between nature and culture makes little sense.read more
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When Species Meet
TL;DR: In this paper, a what-if scenario on what could happen if we plan for the horse and who else that could benefit from that is presented, where the horse is the centre of the stable and the equestrian sport.
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Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation
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TL;DR: In this paper, a conversation between degrowth and post-development is initiated by placing them within the larger field of discourses for ecological and civilizational transitions and by bridging proposals emerging from the North with those from the Global South.
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Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology: An Introduction to Supplement 20
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual tool for noticing landscape structure, with special attention to what we call "modular simplifi ciency", is presented. But this tool requires spatial as well as temporal analysis.
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Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South
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More than one world, more than one health: Re-configuring interspecies health
TL;DR: The paper aims to loosen any association between OWOH and a one world-ist metaphysics, and to radicalize the inter-disciplinary foundations of OWOH by both widening the scope of disciplinarity as well as attending to how different knowledges are brought together.
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Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
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Situated Knowledges : The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
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After Method: Mess in Social Science Research
TL;DR: The authors argues that methods are always political and that they are involved in creating the social reality we want to understand and reason about, and they argue that many social reality is vague and ephemeral.