December 12, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Cultural anthropologists Schwarz and Thompson (1990, 4-6) use diagrams to illustrate four worldviews concerning nature and the effect society can have on it (Fig. 1). This classification and the cultural (“grid-group”) theory that underlies it have been widely invoked in … Continue reading
November 2, 2010
by peter.taylor
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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