LABR 2P96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Genetic Erosion, Bioprospecting, Soil Fertility
9 Oct 2016
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Reductionism and regeneration: crises of social and natural sciences. Instead feminist maria mies and vandana shiva see science as intimately linked to violence, power, and disruption where life-processes are rendered valueless. The feminist critique of science: science as reductionist. Excludes other knowers and other ways of knowing: atomistic/fragmented. it permits knowledge of parts of a system to stand for knowledge of the whole. Divisibility permits context-free abstraction of knowledge, and creates criteria of validity based on alienation of knowledge, and creates criteria of validity based on alienation and non-participation: mechanical. Nature capacity is reduced by manipulating it as inert and fragmented matter. Similar to nature, women lived experiences are ignored when women are made objects, passive recipients of categories and facts. Shifts of value into non-value; labour into non-labour; destruction into production. Reductionism has provided the logic for the capitalist efficiency and profits. For instance, only those properties of a resource which generate profits are taken into account.
