This essay argues that important development and natural resource management initiatives that seek to expand meaningful participation by rural communities directly affected by such ventures can be usefully examined as democratic technologies.
Charis M. Thompson describes key aspects of the formation in the mid 1990s of the Malpai Borderlands Group of the Southwest US, and the reorganisation of the Kenya Wildlife Service during 1994–6 and their legacies since then.
The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.
This paper places the work of a Peruvian NGO (PRATEC), with which the author collaborates, within a broad context of the theory of knowledge.
Using the case study of the Bhopal gas disaster, S. Ravi Rajan articulates a framework of questions for the next generation of research and advocacy.
In this essay, Eric Katz uses a pragmatic methodology to (1) reject the idea that we need a metaphysical understanding of the nature of nature before we can speak of nature’s liberation, and (2) explain the sense of liberation as being the continuation of human non-interference in natural processes.
This paper offers an ethico-political interpretation of primitivism’s critical relation to modernity in terms of the dialectic between amorality (innocence) and immorality (guilt) within what is characterized as modernity’s “culture of contamination.”
Christopher J. Preston uses studies of the embodied mind to show that rationality is integrally connected to our animal and animate nature and hence not a significant point of departure between human and non-human animals.
In this article, Elisa Aaltola and Markku Oksanen examine the case of springtime bird hunting in Aland from a moral point of view.
In this paper Robin S. Gregory discusses six reasons why such trade-offs are difficult and, for each, present helpful techniques from the decision sciences along with case study examples of successful applications.
