Over the course of the last six years, New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy has taken a case-study approach to questions concerning the nature of knowledge production. Launched in 2001, New Directions promotes interdisciplinary collaborations where physical scientists, social scientists, and humanists work together with public science agencies, the private sector, and communities to deepen our understanding of and develop effective responses to societal problems. Two key elements characterize all New Directions projects. First, by involving the sciences, engineering, and the humanities, in dialogue with the public and private sectors, New Directions unites the two axes of interdisciplinary—the wide and the deep. Second, these experiments in interdisciplinary problem solving function as a means for thematizing the problem of the breakdown between knowledge production and use.
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Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, Carl Mitcham, and Nancy Tuana
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2007
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 176–187 (12 total)
Karen Hébert, Joshua Mullenite, Alka Sabharwal, David Kneas, Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon, Peter van Dommelen, Cameron Hu, Brittney Hammons, and Natasha Zaretsky
intimated but rarely thematized in much existing political ecology, that “the history of capitalism is one of successive historical natures” (19). It is in Moore’s dogged insistence on “historical nature” over against “nature in general” that he gains some
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 129–150 (22 total)
Righting Names
The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming for Environmental Justice
Rebekah Sinclair
.” Cordova argues that it is “possible to identify some of the conceptual commonalities shared by Native Americans,” yet these commonalities are recognized and thematized by Native Americans themselves, not the colonial, Western eye (2007: 102). Even as
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 91–106 (16 total)
Success—Collapse—Resilience
The Story of Homo Resiliens in Film Documentaries on the Anthropocene
Florentine Schoog
Sequel ( Cohen and Shenk 2017 ). Yet the term “Anthropocene” shows two interesting shifts in focus to the thematization. One is the ambiguity due to the range of the term, offering to problematize other environmental issues besides the climate and at the
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 58–86 (29 total)