Filozofija i drustvo 2012 Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages: 112-125
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1201112B
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Political ecology of Bruno Latour
Birešev Ana (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd)
The paper explores Latour’s conception of political ecology and its
theoretical and political implications. The first part of the paper shows
Latour’s critique of theoretical frameworks of scientific and political
practices, which, in his opinion, constrain a true discussion on ecological
crises by simplifying them and putting them into readymade interpretative
models. The second part of the paper examines the notions - the collective,
representation, propositions, articulation, and parliament of things -
central to understanding Latour’s idea of involvement of humans and
non-humans in politics. Finally, the paper explores the potentials and
constraints of Latour’s idea of political community of new political subjects
(hybrid entities), which is constituted in controversies and through
controversies.
Keywords: political ecology, collective, parliament of things, controversy
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