Hybrid Encounters in Reconciliation Ecology
Over the past century, environmental scientists have developed a range of conservation approaches. Each of these, from management to restoration has embedded within it certain dualisms which create exclusive spaces or agencies for “human” and “nature.” I begin with a critique of these binaries as th...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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In: |
Worldviews
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 238-250 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Human being
/ Integration
/ Nature
/ Dualism
/ Ecology
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RelBib Classification: | NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics VA Philosophy ZA Social sciences |
Further subjects: | B
reconciliation ecology
restoration
postdualism
hybrid geographies
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Summary: | Over the past century, environmental scientists have developed a range of conservation approaches. Each of these, from management to restoration has embedded within it certain dualisms which create exclusive spaces or agencies for “human” and “nature.” I begin with a critique of these binaries as they occur in philosopher, Florence R. Kluckhohn’s influential model and in more recent narratives about the “Anthropocene,” and then turn to examine some of the novel features of “reconciliation ecology” as it has recently been deployed in the environmental sciences. Though this model is beginning to see wider use by scientists, it has not yet been explored within a religious framework. Taking up Miroslav Volf’s suggestion that reconciliation involves a “double strategy” I highlight ways that reconciliation can (1) provide a viable model for promoting an “embrace” of the other and (2) better integrate the past history of negative human biotic impacts. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
Contains: | In: Worldviews
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02003003 |