Bruno Latour‘s Gifford Lectures Facing Gaia: A new enquiry into Natural Religion, which were given at University of Edinburgh over the last few months are now on the web. Lecture 1: ‘Once Out of Nature’ – natural religion as a pleonasm Lecture 2: A shift in agency – with apologies to David Hume Lecture 3: The puzzling face of […]
As you might know, some of us at the Stockholm Resilience Centre are quite inspired by actor-network theory (ANT), an “infralanguage” to help us undermine the Nature/Culture (or Social/Ecological) dichotomy; a dichotomy that has divided academia for a long time, but which interdisciplinary institutes like SRC is trying to overcome. One of the key developers […]
Bruno Latour, an eminent figure in social studies of science and science policy, writes Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern in Critical Inquiry 2004 30(2). Wars. So many wars. Wars outside and wars inside. Cultural wars, science wars, and wars against terrorists. Wars against poverty and […]
Guest post from Simon West, Diego Galafassi, Jamila Haider, Andres Marin, Andrew Merrie, Daniel Ospina-Medina, Caroline Schill Critical reflection is a core competence for sustainability researchers and a crucial mechanism through which research evolves and breaks new ground. For instance, Lance Gunderson and C.S. Holling stress in the canonical social-ecological systems (SES) book Panarchy that SES […]
A guest post by Wijnand Boonstra Old Durkheim was used to taking blows, right from the day of his PhD defense in 1893. His dissertation, later published as The Division of Labour in Society, was turned down twice. The third time he got it through, but not without serious objections. Durkheim was criticized for treating “the […]
This deserves perhaps an even longer blog post, but I wrote this quickly as an appreciation to the previous blog by Juan Carlos Rocha. The previous blog post puts focus on a quite problematic nexus within social-ecological studies, and management theory more generally: the focus on “key-individuals”, “leaders”, and “institutional or social entrepreneurs” to explain […]
How was 2010 for this blog? Google Analytics can be used to find out what happens on a website, and according to Google Analytics, in 2010 Resilience Science had about 240,000 page views, 190,000 unique visitors, and over 500 feed subscribers (according to Google Reader). The most common search term for Resilience Science was “resilience […]
Screen shot from the blog “immanence” by Adrian J Ivakhiv On his blog “immanence“, Adrian J Ivakhiv, proposes an interesting list of the “books of the decade in ecocultural theory”. Please, check the whole list at his blog. The three first books are by (1) William E. Connolly on Neuropolitics, (2) Arturo Escobar on social […]
The Canadian Broadcasting Company radio show Ideas has an interesting eighteen part series of hour long shows called How to think about Science. These shows are available on the web as podcasts or streaming audio. They describe the series: If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended […]
Below are two reflections on recent agro-ecological research. The first is from The World’s Fair and the second the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. Benjamin Cohen on The World’s Fair presents a discussion A Scientific Response to Agro-environmental Crises about Agroecology in Action: Extending Alternative Agriculture through Social Networks (MIT Press, 2007), with its author Keith Warner. […]