November 12, 2010
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A line of research from England, initiated by the sociologists Brown and Harris in the late 1960s, has investigated how severe events and difficulties during people’s life course influence the onset of mental and physical illnesses (Harris 2000). This work … Continue reading
November 11, 2010
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The data that researchers collect shapes the kinds of patterns and hypotheses or predictions they can make. Galton, a founding father of the analysis of similarity among relatives, recognized that those similarities say nothing on their own to distinguish ‘between … Continue reading
November 10, 2010
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What if everything is already unruly complexity? 1st Answer (after defining and illustrating the concept): There’s a qualitative difference in analysis of causes & implications This leads to Question 2: … implications for whom? Answer to Q2: Researcher in dialogue … Continue reading
November 7, 2010
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Nature/culture distinctions play out in many different and contradictory ways. In turn, there are multiple rethinkings. Below are some that arose or lurked around during a year-long seminar at Rutgers University in 1996-97. The participants were invited to add to … Continue reading
November 4, 2010
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The synopsis of a case of soil erosion in Oaxaca (presented in the post before last) has, in addition to the themes of the previous post, a number of implications for thinking about the agency of the people studied and, … Continue reading
November 3, 2010
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The following discussion illustrates how socio-environmental studies, such as the case of soil erosion from the previous post and those of political ecology more generally (Peet and Watts 1996), provide rich material for exploring the problematic boundedness of ecological complexity … Continue reading
November 2, 2010
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Intersecting processes is a term I use to help students and researchers conceptualize directions that would address more complexity in socio-environmental studies (Taylor and García Barrios 1995; Taylor 2001c). The term addresses the same terrain as “unruly complexity”—to analyze social … Continue reading
November 1, 2010
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The history of ideas about nature can be read in terms of the social order being defended or promoted, as described well by Raymond Williams (1980) (and explored in the “trialogue” of previous posts). This schema (which evolved through my … Continue reading
October 31, 2010
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Interpreta: That seems a very coarse way to take environmental and health costs into account…. The previous post ended thus. Continuing the three roles: Partovo (“Humans are a Part Of nature”); Separata (“Humans have become Separate from nature”); or Interpreta … Continue reading
October 30, 2010
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Partovo: Agreed. But you should remember that some people move into such areas when the price of real estate drops to levels they can afford. That’s the way markets work to balance supply and demand. Dare I say, it’s a … Continue reading