2006 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
March 7-11, Chicago Illinois
2446: Political Ecologies of Knowledge, Science and technology III: hybrid knowledge and nature constructions
Wednesday, 3/8/06, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Session Description:
Political ecology, as a theoretical framework and methodological tool set, is greatly enhanced by drawing on the insights of STS (Science and Technology Studies) scholarship to better articulate the relations between not only nature and society but also science and nature, science and society, and science and 'other' knowledge articulations -- across various overlapping scales and contexts. Papers in this session combine the critical theoretical vision of political ecology with methodological tools from STS, to question the very lines along which the debates (analytical and political) over nature and society are expressed. Through a series of case studies they show how the boundaries between nature, society, science, and culture, are blurred in conservation, development, and restoration projects, and bring into question the nexus of legitimacy regarding environmental knowledge/practice.
Sponsorship(s):
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Developing Areas Specialty Group
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Mara Jill Goldman - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dianne E. Rocheleau - Clark University
Chair(s):
Dianne E. Rocheleau - Clark University
Papers:
1:00 PM Author(s): *Noella Gray - Duke University
Abstract Title: Drawing Boundaries: the Role of Science in Marine Protected Areas
1:17 PM Author(s): *Chris Sneddon - Dartmouth College
Abstract Title: Fish, science and the politics of knowledge production in Southeast Asia
1:34 PM Author(s): *Gabriela Valdivia - Michigan State University
Abstract Title: The matter of oil in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon
1:51 PM Author(s): *Yen-Chu Weng - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract Title: Negotiating Nature in the Process of Recreating Nature: An Exploration of the Discourses on Ecological Restoration
2:08 PM Discussant: Peter Brosius - University of Georgia
