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Green utopias: environmental hope before and after nature
Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature. Green Utopias explores these ideas of environmental hope in the post-war period, from the environmental crisis to the end of nature. Using a broad definition of Utopia as it exists in Western policy, theory and literature, Lisa Garforth explains how its developing entanglement with popular culture and mainstream politics has shaped successive green future visions and initiatives. In the face of apocalyptic, despairing or indifferent responses to contemporary ecological dilemmas, utopias and the utopian method seem more necessary than ever. This distinctive reading of green political thought and culture will appeal across the social sciences and humanities to all interested in why green utopias continue to matter in the cultivation of ecological values and the emergence of new forms of human and non-human well-being.
The End of the End of the Earth
In: Utopian studies, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 206-209
ISSN: 2154-9648
In/Visibilities of Research: Seeing and Knowing in STS
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 264-285
ISSN: 1552-8251
In science studies the laboratory has been positioned as a privileged place for understanding scientific practice. Laboratory studies foregrounded local spaces of knowledge production in the natural sciences, and in doing so made the laboratory key to social science epistemologies. This article explores how laboratory studies and observational methods have been tied up together in the science and technology studies (STS) project of making scientific practice visible. The author contrasts powerful rhetorics of witnessing and revelation in some significant STS texts with the negotiated and partial ways in which observing science work is done in social science practice. Drawing on empirical material generated with bioscientists and social scientists, the article explores how researchers may resist the observational gaze and mark aspects of knowledge work as private and solitary. The author concludes by arguing that epistemologies of vision point to some unsettling parallels between the study of knowledge-making in STS and audit regimes in contemporary research, and considers how both might devalue invisible work. This analysis suggests that there is a need to reconsider the significance of thinking in the ensemble of knowledge production practices for methodological, epistemological, and strategic reasons.
No Intentions? Utopian Theory After the Future
In: Journal for cultural research, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 5-27
ISSN: 1740-1666
Waste catalysts for waste polymer
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 27, Heft 12, S. 1891-1896
ISSN: 1879-2456
Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral
In: Utopian studies, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 393-427
ISSN: 2154-9648
Rural people's organizations and agricultural extension in the upper north of thailand: Who benefits?
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 6, Heft 6, S. 707-720
ISSN: 1099-1328
AbstractRecent developments in agricultural extension policy in Thailand emphasise the importance of working with and through local organisations of rural people (RPOs). The paper describes these developments and explores four sets of arguments commonly used to support them: that they will increase the efficiency of extension by reducing the unit cost of "contact" between farmers and extension staff; that they provide a more effective means of enabling farmers, both individually and collectively, to take action in the interests of local agricultural development; that they promote equity in the provision of extension services; and that they can lead to the empowering of rural people to take greater initiative in their own development. Northern Thailand has a long history of the active involvement of local organisations in agricultural development, most notably the independent "muang fai" irrigation associations. The present century has seen a number of government sponsored efforts to promote the formation of new types of RPOs, efforts which have met with mixed success. Research conducted by the Universities of Reading and Chiang Mai in the nine provinces of the upper north identified the varied processes by which RPOs come into being and investigated the relationships between RPOs and extension agencies in the government and voluntary sectors. A series of case studies in different parts of the region provides evidence in support of the above four sets of arguments. These studies also show, however, that current approaches can lead to new patterns of exclusion among the rural population and may lead to a debilitating dependence of newly created RPOs on government or voluntary agencies. The limitations of current approaches are identified and suggestions made for increasing the benefits of RPO‐based agricultural extension.
Rural People's Organizations and Agricultural Extension in the Upper North of Thailand: Who Benefits?
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 6, Heft 6, S. 707-720
ISSN: 0954-1748
Reviews
In: Community development journal, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 268-270
ISSN: 1468-2656
Educative democracy: John Stuart Mill on education in society
In: University of Hull publications
Multiple use of waste catalysts with and without regeneration for waste polymer cracking
In: Waste management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 1139-1145
ISSN: 1879-2456
Plantations, privatization, poverty, and power: changing ownership and management of state forests
In: The Earthscan forestry library