Commons and Bio-Cultural Learning: An Environmental Humanities View on Evolution, Materiality and Society
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https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2022v11i3.p86-97Keywords:
common, collective action, ecology, coexistence, matterAbstract
This article aims to critically contribute to contemporary commons scholarship, using the lenses of the environmental humanities. Linking existing literature on collective action to a vast amount of literature from both the social sciences and the natural sciences could contribute to a new epistemological framework to understand anthropogenic processes of collective action. Both recent biological evolution theories and ontologically oriented philosophical perspectives have insisted on the endemic collaborative nature of coexistence processes as the embodiment of a larger ecological, material, and cultural whole. Looking at these processes through the lenses of coexistence could potentially reshape commons scholarship, overcoming what I define as the “long shadow of Hardinism,†while simultaneously further stimulating dialogue, and hopefully consilience, between the social and natural sciences.
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Harold F M 2001. The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Kohn E 2013. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. University of California Press, Berkeley.
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Latour B 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Latour B 2005. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Morton T 2018. Being Ecological. Pelican Press, London.
Morton T 2019. Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People. London: Verso Books (first publication 2017).
Ostrom E 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Actions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Polanyi K 2001. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Beacon Press, Boston (first publication 1944).
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Quinn M 2008. Mill on Poverty, Population and Poor Relief. Revue d’études benthamiennes, 4.
Saijo T, Feng J, Kobayashi Y 2017. Common-pool Resources are Intrinsically Unstable. International Journal of the Commons 11(2): 597-620.
Sowell T 1962. Malthus and Utilitarians. The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 28(2): 268-274.
von Sydow M 2012. From Darwinian Metaphysics Towards Understanding the Evolution of Evolutionary Mechanisms. University of Göttingen Press, Göttingen.
Vorzimmer P 1969. Darwin, Malthus, and the Theory of Natural Selection. Journal of the History of Ideas 30(4): 527-542.
Wagner A 2014. Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates. New York: Penguin.
Wall D 2017. The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict and Ecology. MIT Press, Cambridge MA (first publication 2014).
Wilson E O 1998. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
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2022-09-23
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MAJO, Claudio de. Commons and Bio-Cultural Learning: An Environmental Humanities View on Evolution, Materiality and Society. Fronteiras - Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, [S. l.], v. 11, n. 3, p. 86–97, 2022. DOI: 10.21664/2238-8869.2022v11i3.p86-97. Disponível em: https://revistas2.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/6530. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.
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