Research Design and the Politics of Abstraction : Unpacking the Environmentality of Scientific Practice in Socioecological Assessments
Autor: | Maartje Pronk, Harro Maat, Henk Udo, Todd A. Crane, Oliver Springate-Baginski, Roan P. Lakerveld, Viola Weiler |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Sociology and Political Science Socio-ecological systems Vulnerability Environmentality WASS 010501 environmental sciences Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Social value orientations Assessment 01 natural sciences Animal Production Systems Ecosystem services Life cycle assessment Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Vulnerability assessment Sociology Social science Science studies 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Dierlijke Productiesystemen Operationalization Ecology Conceptualization Corporate governance Anthropology Technologie and Innovatie Knowledge Technology and Innovation Kennis Engineering ethics Kennis Technologie and Innovatie Research methods |
Zdroj: | Human Ecology 44 (2016) 6 Human Ecology, 44(6), 665-675 |
ISSN: | 0300-7839 |
Popis: | Scientific assessments of socio-ecological systems are becoming mainstays in guiding policymaking and other interventions in response to global environmental change. The environmentality literature emphasizes the institutional architecture of emergent science-policy regimes and how scientific research is used in political settings, creating new modes of governance and subjectivities. However, there has been relatively little attention to domain-level socio-ecological assessments as socially produced technologies where specific scientific choices are mechanisms connecting governance architecture and popular subjectivities. Combining empirical case study and literature review, assessment technologies are analyzed in three domains: vulnerability assessment, ecosystem services assessment, life-cycle assessment. Using conceptualization, operationalization, and institutionalization as analytical lenses, the cases illustrate ways that scientific choices simplify complex socio-ecological relationships with implications for both governance practices and subjectivities. Furthermore, findings explore the possibility for assessments to be more inclusive of diverse social values and practices, enabling more empowering subjectivities. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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