Journeying into interobjectivity
How Worlds Can Be Multiple and Real
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andre Goodrich (0000-0003-2481-7253, North-West University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 47-60 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2015.1043391 |
| OpenAlex | W933548063 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The culture-nature division is fundamental to the division of academic labour between the social and natural sciences. In the face of climate change and other broad environmental threats, natural and social scientists are becoming critical of this division of labour. This paper considers Contested Natures (Macnaghten and Urry, 1998) and heterotopia in the social sciences and social-ecological systems in the natural sciences as attempts to undo this division. These attempts, I argue, reproduce the ontological division fundamental to the problem they aim to overcome. Using a curious coincidence on a trip to the field, I explore a language that avoids the subject/object distinction characteristic of this ontological divide. By closely considering the point on my journey where my travelling companions — a GPS navigator and a small Japanese sedan — encountered their limits, I find a metaphysical starting point for a multiplicity of natures that are more than mentally-held cultural constructions of nature, or linkages between diverse social systems and an ecological realm. The argument suggests that multiple worlds emerge from the disentangling operations of interobjectively extended bodies and that the apparent unity between multiple worlds is itself a product of such interobjectivity
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Division of labour · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Heterotopia (medicine · Metaphysics · Political science · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Law · Philosophy
Wisdom sits in places
The Order of Things
Political Ontology
These Boots Are Made for Walking
Gated communities, heterotopia and a “rights” of privilege
We Have Never Been Modern
Place and Space
Visuality, mobility and the cosmopolitan
The Perception of the Environment
Perceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland
Inhabiting the Car
Ethnographies as Texts
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Perception of the Environment
Writing History into the Landscape
After Nature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |