PUBLICATIONS since 1998 and selected prior publications

For full list of publications see curriculum vitae
Publications marked * form the basis of the chapters indicated from The Limits of Ecology (under contract with the University of Chicago Press and submitted for review mid-July), so readers can choose whether to read the original publications or the book manuscript.

Refereed Articles

"Situatedness and Problematic Boundaries: Conceptualizing Life's Complex Ecological Context," Biology & Philosophy, in press

"Socio-ecological webs and sites of sociality: Levins' strategy of model building revisited," Biology & Philosophy, 15 (2), 197-210, 2000.* (LoE, chap. 2)

"How does the commons become tragic? Simple models as complex socio-political constructions" Science as Culture, 7 (4), 449-464, 1998.

"Natural Selection: A heavy hand in biological and social thought," Science as Culture, 7 (1), 5-32, 1998.

"Building on construction: An exploration of heterogeneous constructionism, using an analogy from psychology and a sketch from socio-economic modelling" Perspectives on Science, 3(1), 66-98, 1995.* (the second half has been worked into LoE, chap. 4A)

"The social analysis of ecological change: From systems to intersecting processes" Social Science Information, 34: 5-30, 1995. (With R. García-Barrios)

"Ecosystems as circuits: Diagrams and the limits of physical analogies" Biology & Philosophy, 6:275-294, 1991. (With A. Blum)* (LoE, chap. 3B)

"Technocratic optimism, H.T. Odum and the partial transformation of ecological metaphor after World War 2" J. Hist. Biol. 21:213-244, 1988.* (LoE, chap. 3A)

Book chapters

"Philosophy of Ecology," Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London: Macmillan, 2001. (with Y. Haila)

"'Whose trees are these?' Bridging the divide between subjects and outsider-researchers," for R. Eglash and G. DiChiro (eds.), Appropriating Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming.* (LoE, Interlude)

"Distributed agency within intersecting ecological, social, and scientific processes," pp. 313-332 in S. Oyama, P. Griffiths and R. Gray (Eds.), Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

"Non-standard lessons from the 'tragedy of the commons'," in M. Maniates (ed.) Empowering Knowledge: A Primer for Teaching and Learning Global Environmental Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.

"What can agents do?: Engaging with complexities of the post-Hardin commons," pp. 125-156 in L. Freese (ed.), Advances in Human Ecology, Vol. 8. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1999.* (LoE, chap. 6)

"Mapping complex social-natural processes: Cases from Mexico and Africa," in F. Fischer and M. Hajer (eds.) Living with Nature: Environmental Discourse as Cultural Critique, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 121-134, 1999.

"From natural selection to natural construction to disciplining unruly complexity: The challenge of integrating ecology into evolutionary theory," in R. Singh, K. Krimbas, D. Paul & J. Beatty (eds.), Thinking About Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 377-393, 2000.

"How do we know we have global environmental problems? Undifferentiated science-politics and its potential reconstruction," in P. Taylor, S. Halfon & P. Edwards (eds.) Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 149-174, 1997.

"The dynamics of socio-environmental change and the limits of neo-Malthusian environmentalism," in M. Dore and T. Mount (eds.), Global Environmental Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets. Oxford, Blackwell, 139-167, 1999. (With R. García-Barrios)

"Re/constructing socio-ecologies: System dynamics modeling of nomadic pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa" pp.115-148 in A. Clarke & J. Fujimura (eds.) The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life Sciences, Princeton University Press, 1992.* (LoE, chap. 4B and 5A)

"Community" pp. 52-60 in E.F. Keller & E. Lloyd (eds.) Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press, 1992

Reviews, commentaries, and notes

"Making connections and respecting differences: Reconciling schemas for learning and group process," Connexions (Newsletter of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives), March & July 1997.

"Appearances notwithstanding, we are all doing something like political ecology" Social Epistemology, 11 (1): 111-127, 1997.

Conference Proceedings

"Alternating between teacher and facilitator," Proceedings of the International Association of Facilitators 2000, http://www.iaf-world.org, 2000

"Mapping ecologists' ecologies of knowledge" Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990, Vol.2, 95-109* (LoE, chap. 5B)

Works In Progress

** items not sent to outside reviewers

The Limits of Ecology and the Re/construction of Unruly Complexity Book manuscript for the University of Chicago Press.

"Genes, gestation, and life experience: Environmental complexities in the age of DNA," for Science as Culture**

"Exploring heuristics about social agency through interpretation of diagrams of nature and society," for How Does Nature Speak: Dynamic Understandings, ed. Y. Haila and C. Dyke**

"The hidden complexity of simple models, or Why theorists of all kinds should be troubled by unmodeled variables having dynamical lives of their own," for Complexities Of Life: Ecology, Society And Health, ef. T. Awerbach* (LoE, chap. 1B)**

"Critical thinking re-seen: Journeying and opening up questions"**