Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy

Table of contents

- Contents
(Page 10)
- Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology? (Page 14)
- 1. Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature (Page 22)
- First, Get Out of the Cave (Page 23)
- Ecological Crisis or Crisis of Objectivity? (Page 31)
- The End of Nature (Page 38)
- The Pitfall of “Social Representations” of Nature (Page 45)
- The Fragile Aid of Comparative Anthropology (Page 55)
- What Successor for the Bicameral Collective? (Page 62)
- 2. How to Bring the Collective Together (Page 66)
- Difficulties in Convoking the Collective (Page 70)
- First Division: Learning to Be Circumspect with Spokespersons (Page 75)
- Second Division: Associations of Humans and Nonhumans (Page 83)
- Third Division between Humans and Nonhumans: Reality and Recalcitrance (Page 90)
- A More or Less Articulated Collective (Page 95)
- The Return to Civil Peace (Page 100)
- 3. A New Separation of Powers (Page 104)
- Some Disadvantages of the Concepts of Fact and Value (Page 108)
- The Power to Take into Account and the Power to Put in Order (Page 115)
- The Collective’s Two Powers of Representation (Page 121)
- Verifying That the Essential Guarantees Have Been Maintained (Page 129)
- A New Exteriority (Page 134)
- 4. Skills for the Collective (Page 141)
- The Third Nature and the Quarrel between the Two "Eco" Sciences (Page 144)
- Contribution of the Professions to the Procedures of the Houses (Page 149)
- The Work of the Houses (Page 177)
- The Common Dwelling, the Oikos (Page 193)
- 5. Exploring Common Worlds (Page 197)
- Time’s Two Arrows (Page 201)
- The Learning Curve (Page 207)
- The Third Power and the Question of the State (Page 213)
- The Exercise of Diplomacy (Page 222)
- War and Peace for the Sciences (Page 230)
- Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology! (Page 234)
- Summary of the Argument (for Readers in a Hurry . . .) (Page 244)
- Glossary (Page 250)
- Notes (Page 264)
- Bibliography (Page 300)
- Index (Page 314)