I’m trying to take a step back and am starting to understand the theoretical background of my thesis topic. I do not know if it is the classes I am taking or the professors I have but I am being nudged, more like shoved, in the direction of Bruno Latour. In Environmental Theory we are […]
Archives for March 2014
Making sense of “Making Sense of Nature”
So Noel Castree wrote a book called Making Sense of Nature and I think it was supposed to help me make sense of nature. And I’m not saying it didn’t. Castree’s main idea is that nature is real because we make and real. He believes that this is not necessarily problematic but that it needs […]
Systematic Environmental Theory
Systematic environmental theory is way to analyze environmental concepts in a theoretical light. This frameworks looks at an object, process, or idea with four main theoretical backdrops: ontology (what is out there?), epistemology (what is the truth?), ethics (is it moral?), and power (what are the power relations?). When explaining and understanding systematic environmental theory […]
Apocalypticism
As its name implies, the word apocalypticism stems from a belief that the apocalypse is going to occur. Probably soon. Very soon. For those who have not heard of the apocalypse, it is a religious belief described in the biblical book of Revelation of the complete final destruction of the world. The idea of the […]
Oh Question Where Art Thou?
This week has been filled with interviews, reading, and soul searching all aimed at defining an answerable research question to focus the rest of my thesis work. My original question did not take into account some aspects of this field of study that I am finding increasingly prominent. For example, evidence-based policy making is a […]