Towards a theoretical biology in society

Preamble: http://wp.me/p1gwfa-Dm

Intro: What if everything is always already unruly complexity?
Fork: 1. get dirty; 2. stand apart, "positioning myself as someone who has a larger view of the... conceptual system in which others have only a partial view"
18-minute video: http://wp.me/pPWGi-xF

[quasi-chronologically, not updated but with postscripts. each begins with position -- where it links from and where it links to.]

Action x State of Nature

"How do we know we have global environmental problems?: Science and the globalization of environmental discourse" Geoforum, 23: 405-416, 1992. (With F. Buttel)
"How do we know we have global environmental problems? Undifferentiated science-politics and its potential reconstruction," in Changing Life, 149-174, 1997.

"The social analysis of ecological change: From systems to intersecting processes" Social Science Information, 34: 5-30, 1995. (With R. García-Barrios) Also published, slightly modified, as "El analisis social del cambio ecológico, El medio ambiente: Una perspectiva económica social" pp. 67-93 in J. Jardon (ed.). Recursos, Energia y Cambio Social. Mexico: Plaza y Valdez Editores, 1995.


"Exploring themes about social agency through interpretation of diagrams of nature and society," pp. 235-260 in How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition , ed. Y. Haila and C. Dyke. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2006.

"A reconstrução da complexidade ecológica sem regras: ciência, interpretação e prática reflexiva crítica" [Reconstructing unruly ecological complexity: Science, interpretation, and critical, reflective practice], pp. 529-551 in Conhecimento Prudente para Uma Vida Decente: Um Discurso sobre as Ciências Revisitado, ed. B. de Sousa Santos, Porto: Afrontamento 2003. Revised version pp. 295-314 in Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life, ed. B. de Sousa Santos, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

"'Whose trees/interpretations are these?' Bridging the divide between subjects and outsider-researchers," pp. 305-312 in R. Eglash, J. Croissant, G. DiChiro, R. Fouche (eds.), Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

"Non-standard lessons from the 'tragedy of the commons'," pp. 87-105 in M. Maniates (ed.) Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

"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, 2001.

"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.

"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.

"Changing life in the New World Dis/Order," Introduction for Changing Life (with P.Edwards# & S. Halfon), 1-13, 1997.

"The dynamics of socio-environmental change and the limits of neo-Malthusian environmentalism," pp. 139-167 in M. Dore and T. Mount (eds.), Global Environmental Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets. Oxford, Blackwell, 1999. (With R. García-Barrios#) Also published in revised form as "Dynamics and rhetorics of socio-environmental change: Critical perspectives on the limits of neo-Malthusian environmentalism," pp. 257-292 in L. Freese (ed.), Advances in Human Ecology, Vol. 6. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997.

"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.

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"Intersecting Processes: complexity and change in environment, biomedicine and society" Ludus Vitalis XXI (39):319-324, 2013, http://www.ludusvitalis.org/foros/pracprof1.html.

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"Exploring themes about social agency through interpretation of diagrams of nature and society," pp. 235-260 in How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition , ed. Y. Haila and C. Dyke. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2006.

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“The ethics of participatory processes: Dynamic flux, Open questions,” for Rozzi, R., Pickett, S. T. A., Callicott, J. B., Chapin, F. S., Power, M. E., & Armesto, J. J. (Eds.). Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice. Springer, forthcoming.

"Conceptualizing the heterogeneity, embeddedness, and ongoing restructuring that make ecological complexity 'unruly'," pp. 87-95 in Revisiting ecology. Reflecting on concepts, advancing science, ed. K. Jax and A. Schwarz, Berlin: Springer, 2011.

"Shifting boundaries: From management to engagement in complexities of ecosystems and social contexts," pp. 248-263 in A. Belgrano, C. Fowler (eds.), Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries: An Evolving Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

"Agency, structuredness, and the production of knowledge within intersecting processes," pp. 81-98 in M. Goldman, P. Nadasdy, and M. Turner (eds.), Knowing Nature: Conversations between Political Ecology and Science Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.