Making reference: some epistemological questions about social inquiry incited by hypertext
Epistemology ; Ethnography ; Information ; Semiology ; Social sciences ; Technology
Through a consideration of the practice of making reference in the social sciences, this paper concerns some epistemological questions incited by the use and effects of hypertext.
The paper includes the following chapters : 1. Political ecology : all things to all people ? 2. Issues, narratives and epistemologies. 3. Disjunctures. 4. Cartography of political ecology. 5. Analytical narratives for political ecology. 6. Post
Biography ; Epistemology ; History of sciences ; Philosophy of sciences ; Practice of geography
Perspective on the geographer C. Sauer (1889-1975) whose life and epistemology were suffused with the time dimension. In Sauer's view more important to the practice of geography than space. - (DWG)
and nature. The A. argues that there are difficulties in using poststructuralist epistemologies for the analysis of environmental problems. He shows how ideas drawn from critical realism can help to recognize where ontological and epistemological issues have
Buried epistemologies: the politics of nature in (Post)colonial British Columbia
Représentations de la forêt humide et de la nature en Colombie Britannique, et évocation d'une série d'épistémologies inhumées à travers lesquelles les relations néocoloniales s'affirment dans la région. L'A. montre comment la nature s'est
Civilization ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Epistemology ; Ideology ; Imperialism ; Social theory
E. Said aimed at refashioning spatial sensibilities in a broader epistemological sense. He invites us to imagine new topographies in which units become hybrid and interpenetrating. The A. invokes A. Ahmad's (diasporan intellectual, Palestinian