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Terway, Timothy Michael.

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Sustained in Significance With(out) Context and Ourselves: Expert Environmental Knowledge and "Social-Ecological Systems".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sustained in Significance With(out) Context and Ourselves: Expert Environmental Knowledge and "Social-Ecological Systems"./
Author:	Terway, Timothy Michael.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	411 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-02A.
Subject:	Environmental philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10927925
ISBN:	9780438194953

Sustained in Significance With(out) Context and Ourselves: Expert Environmental Knowledge and "Social-Ecological Systems".
Terway, Timothy Michael.

Sustained in Significance With(out) Context and Ourselves: Expert Environmental Knowledge and "Social-Ecological Systems". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 411 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2018.

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This dissertation concerns the philosophical, practical, and pedagogical implications of the 'social-ecological systems' [SES] concept in contemporary America. It does so through an understanding of human beings as a biosemiotic and thus immanently meaning-making species who are differently subject to the material and symbolic conditioning of one's experienced surround, yet are relationally continuous. I examine the ways in which meaning is expressed in language and actions by SES-using scholars, practitioners, and students, how it bears on their conceptions of 'change', and on the usage of 'resilience' and 'transformation' in particular. This is done to assess the efficacy of these notions of 'change' when used within a society marked by instability-inducing lifestyles, and a separation and domination-oriented premise that imbues its structure, function, and control, which together are constitutive of a mass social-ecological instability that `resilience', `transformation', and `adaptability' are to address, in theory. I ask: how are these contradictions reconciled in meaning, and with what effects? I find that although humans' symbolic dimension of meaning is ever-present and contributes to SES-attending users' conceptions of `problems' and 'solutions', it is widely unacknowledged, selectively attended, reified, rendered technical, and/or dismissed, with consequence for conceptions of `change'. Second, the malleability of meaning enables `resilience'-invoking experts to promote efforts in its name that do not address structural and generative sources of instability. Third, pedagogical attempts to explicitly consider meaning-making through reflecting on one's own processing of its individual and structural manifestations within `integrative' graduate-level environmental studies courses display evidence of personal ethico-onto-epistemological openness, at least in the short term. In other words, perspective change that may bring about different action appears possible within locally supportive conditions, yet it is unclear how such change fares within an unsupportive macro-context. These findings support the notion that `transformative' social-ecological change in a contemporary American context may require change in both a culture and consciousness that are outside the frame of matters of conventional environmental-comesocial-ecological concern, as well as the means by which such matters are seen, considered, embodied, and enacted.

ISBN: 9780438194953Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168296
Environmental philosophy.

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