作者: Sybille Bauriedl
关键词: Environmental social science 、 Actant 、 Epistemology 、 Historical materialism 、 Materialism 、 Politics 、 Sociology 、 Marxist philosophy 、 Political culture 、 Political ecology 、 Social science
摘要: Abstract. Political ecology is a research field comprising studies with critical perspective on human/nature-relations – in both political and an epistemological sense. Fundamental questions of ecology, here, are related to just equal access resources, their contribution control, the regimes regulation. The article specifies empirical approaches within last decades. It does not tell linear history or single story, because emerges out continuous process mutual inspirations academic debates activist practices. strands operate different ideas how conceptionalize nature: as social product, technonature, hybrid, actant. These conceptualisations neo-Marxist post-structural epistemology. This discusses present debate two steps. After introducing broader what critique means it gives account various for analysis both, geographies materialities uneven development. early explain socially produced, Marxist understanding historical materialism. In recent this approach was confronted new materialist thinking more fluid interrelations between nature non-nature; also addresses postcolonial studies' claim decentralize perspectives geography order understand forms connectivity culture.