Re-Thinking Nature: Towards an Eco-Pluralism

摘要

Both scientific realism and social constructionism offer unpromising and even destructive ways of trying to understand nature and human-nature relations. The reasons include what these apparent opponents share: a commitment to the (latterly) modernist division between subject/culture and objectature that results from what is here called 'monist essentialism'. It is contrasted with 'relational pluralism', which provides the basis of a better alternative -ecopluralism - which, properly understood, is necessarily both ecocentric and pluralist.