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... of knowledge that transcended their cultural framework and promised inclusion in a broader cosmopolitan community. Thus, they were complicit in constructing ecological science as universal knowledge that downplayed the importance of understanding the specific philosophical and epistemological traditions...

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... Details of a CIA funding front known as the Human Ecology Fund are examined. The Human Ecology Fund was overseen by Cornell University Medical School neurologist Harold Wolff, MD. The fund secretly received CIA funds and financed a broad range of social and behavioral science research undertaken...

... Chapter 1 draws on histories and politics of pigeon-human interactions to explore basic changes in thinking and feeling, in a movement from bounded individualism to tentacular patterning. Drawing from science studies, multispecies studies, storytelling, ecological and developmental biology...

... Taking the example of the contested ownership of Kennewick Man (a prehistoric skeleton found in Washington state) as a focus of discussion, the chapter addresses the challenges of developing exchanges between cultures as a counter to the noncivilization of science. It considers the ecologically...

... Tobie Nathan's affirmation, “We are not alone in the world,” is central to this chapter's argument about the ecology of practices and how it counters the narrative of science as an epic tale of human progress. Affirming the efficacy of non-Western healers in their appeal to invisible beings...

... This piece surveys Lessing’s career, including descriptions of how this writer, moving through very different genres, including both traditional realism and science fiction, finds ways to warn and chastise her readers for dozing off while driving right off the cliff of political mayhem...

... station on Barro Colorado Island became a key institution supporting the fledgling discipline of ecology, certain categories of people were excluded from the social world of this new science. Social separation was naturalized among humans even as ecological entanglements were discovered. This research...

... to the rescue, along with biologist Deborah Gordon’s theories about ant interactions and colony behavior, to elaborate the possibilities of ecological evolutionary developmental biology and nonhierarchical systems theories for shaping the best stories. Science fiction and science fact cohabit happily...

... Landscapes surrounding protracted resource conflicts have played host to a wide range of experiments in science-based governance designed with many different goals in mind. Organizers have sought to mollify resistance to extractive projects by inviting skeptical residents into participatory...

... of mineral wealth within its territory. Shifts in global investment flows, neoliberal reforms, and innovations in mining technologies have expanded the frontiers of extraction into areas formerly used for agriculture and farming. A review of literatures in science studies, political ecology...

.... The chapter highlights fugitive and speculative geology, which drew on the aesthetic and historical dimensions of the science to develop its potential for resisting slavery and generating alternative forms of African American humanity. It explicates citations of volcanism by Frederick Douglass and J. Sella...

... Chapter 3 spins out the threads of sympoiesis in ecological evolutionary developmental biology and in art science activisms committed to four iconic troubled places: (1) coral reef holobiomes, (2) Black Mesa coal country in Navajo and Hopi lands and other extraction zones impacting indigenous...

... Taking up John Dewey's account of the “eclipse of the public” in The Public and Its Problems , this chapter argues for a renewed approach to the relationship between science and “opinion.” Dewey's account is important for its consideration of the ways in which publics emerge around problems...

...Energy Not all forms of intimate bodily encounters with ecological “resources” are desirable, or desired. After the 2011 Great Tōhoku earthquake/tsunami led to meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, many Japanese residents who found official data unreliable decided to take...

... Not all forms of intimate bodily encounters with ecological “resources” are desirable, or desired. After the 2011 Great Tōhoku earthquake/tsunami led to meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, many Japanese residents who found official data unreliable decided to take their own...