Lehman, Jessica S. and Johnson, Elizabeth (2022) 'Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience.', Progress in Environmental Geography, 1 (1-4). pp. 23-32.
Abstract
How has environmental geography grappled with the inheritances of Western technoscience? On one hand, as a discipline, we are now well aware of science's entanglements with imperial projects and racist logics, not to mention the omissions and silenced voices propagated by the ‘view from nowhere.’ On the other, it is difficult to imagine environmental geographies and politics that are not tethered to technoscience – however implicitly or transgressively. This paper offers a critical analysis for grappling with the inheritance of Western technoscience in environmental geography. We accomplish this by reading the work of Donna Haraway, Sylvia Wynter and their interlocuters together to posit a set of principles for the subdiscipline of environmental geography. In doing so, rather than review the engagements of environmental geographers with Western technoscience, we range outside the discipline for insights into responsibility, epistemic inheritances and world-making in the wake of violent legacies. Throughout, we take neither environmental geography nor Western technoscience as monolithic or univocal and instead follow specific threads of engagement and potential amplification. We see progress in environmental geography as inextricable from the subdiscipline's entanglement with technoscience, and therefore advocate for a relationship that is ultimately responsible for this inheritance through its transformation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (234Kb) |
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Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687221124613 |
Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Date accepted: | 22 August 2022 |
Date deposited: | 26 August 2022 |
Date of first online publication: | 21 September 2022 |
Date first made open access: | 26 August 2022 |
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