"The Origin and Construction of Knowledge"
An introduction to five papers on Man and Nature, by George Perkins Marsh.
An introduction to five papers on Man and Nature, by George Perkins Marsh.
In this paper, questions on envrionmental problems are explored by examining the ontology of environmental problems.
This paper argues for a broader understanding of the multidimensionality of environmental problems.
João Afonso Baptista uses an ethnographic approach to analyze ecological knowledge in Angolan forests as shaped by local dwellers and represented by (neo)colonial processes of distinction and separation, namely the external knower and the object known.
In the context of current concerns within the environmental humanities to challenge the idea that humans are somehow irreducible to nature, the authors in this article take up the much-neglected history of the idea of human exceptionality itself, arguing that this form of humanist discourse often forgets its own contingencies and instabilities, and its comprehensively violent inheritances.
By using the term “fluid,” this article critically interrogates western ontologies of “solid” (land) and “liquid” (flowing waters).
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.