Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge

This paper examines the ways in which knowledge about water has conventionally been generated by modern water scientists and illuminates how this approach leaves out the diverse “ways of knowing” water and how scientism creates a trap of concrete evidential certainty. Through the example of a faile...

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Main Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nandan Nawn 2020-07-01
Series:Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal
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Online Access:https://ecoinsee.org/journal/ojs/index.php/ees/article/view/226
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spelling doaj-f7e748dad9024ac5bf25116d8e8199ef2021-04-02T19:01:40ZengNandan NawnEcology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal2581-61522581-61012020-07-013210.37773/ees.v3i2.226Knowledge Others, Others’ KnowledgeKuntala Lahiri-Dutt0The Australian National University This paper examines the ways in which knowledge about water has conventionally been generated by modern water scientists and illuminates how this approach leaves out the diverse “ways of knowing” water and how scientism creates a trap of concrete evidential certainty. Through the example of a failed conversation, it questions the basic epistemological underpinnings of understanding water in modern scientific inquiries—the means of knowing rivers, and how they conflict with feminist epistemologies and fail to account for the “knowledge others” and “others’ knowledge”. The paper concludes with observations on why we need new epistemologies of water in the Anthropocene. https://ecoinsee.org/journal/ojs/index.php/ees/article/view/226WaterEpistemologyRiversFeminist MethodsScientific Methods
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Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge
Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal
Water
Epistemology
Rivers
Feminist Methods
Scientific Methods
author_facet Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
author_sort Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
title Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge
title_short Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge
title_full Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge
title_fullStr Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge Others, Others’ Knowledge
title_sort knowledge others, others’ knowledge
publisher Nandan Nawn
series Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal
issn 2581-6152
2581-6101
publishDate 2020-07-01
description This paper examines the ways in which knowledge about water has conventionally been generated by modern water scientists and illuminates how this approach leaves out the diverse “ways of knowing” water and how scientism creates a trap of concrete evidential certainty. Through the example of a failed conversation, it questions the basic epistemological underpinnings of understanding water in modern scientific inquiries—the means of knowing rivers, and how they conflict with feminist epistemologies and fail to account for the “knowledge others” and “others’ knowledge”. The paper concludes with observations on why we need new epistemologies of water in the Anthropocene.
topic Water
Epistemology
Rivers
Feminist Methods
Scientific Methods
url https://ecoinsee.org/journal/ojs/index.php/ees/article/view/226
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