{"product_id":"ecological-thinking","title":"Ecological Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow could ecological thinking animate an epistemology capable of addressing feminist, multicultural, and other post-colonial concerns? Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, Lorraine Code elaborates the creative, restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. She critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism, and exploitation of people and places that western epistemologies of\n\u003cbr\u003emastery have legitimated, to propose a politics of epistemic location, sensitive to the interplay of particularity and diversity, and focused on responsible epistemic practice.  Drawing on\n\u003cbr\u003eecological theory and practice, on naturalized epistemology, and on feminist and post-colonial theories, Code analyzes extended examples from developmental psychology, and from two \"natural\" institutions of knowledge production--medicine and law. These institutions lend themselves well to a reconfigured naturalism. They are, in practice, empirically-scientifically informed, specifically situated, and locally interpretive. With human subjects as their \"objects\" of knowledge, they invoke the\n\u003cbr\u003eresponsibility requirements central to Code's larger project.  This book discusses a wide range of literature in philosophy, social science, and ethico-political thought. Highly innovative, it\n\u003cbr\u003ewill generate productive conversations in feminist theory, and in the ethics and politics of knowledge more broadly conceived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059399053550,"sku":"9780195159448","price":111.71,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195159448.jpg?v=1736498476","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/ecological-thinking","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}