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Following Haraway (1991), the key practice that grounds all knowledge is ‘‘position,’’ or where to see from. A way of seeing, or ‘‘vision,’’ to use her term, involves ‘‘a politics of positioning.’’ Rejecting the possibility of a universal vantage point, Haraway argues that only ‘‘the dominators at the top of the social structure can see themselves as self-identical, unmarked, disembodied, unmediated, [or] transcendent’’
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
By focusing on the impossibility of the ‘good life’, the currency that consumption provides becomes essential and that life is defined by the resources we need in order to reassure ourselves that we belong (see Tuan, 1998). __Consumption is thus our escape into a world better imagined.__
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
These colliding realities caused me to reflect on my relationship to the economy, setting aside what you might call my ‘ethical side hustles’ and really beginning to interrogate how my professional role was situated in the global economy. It became very clear to me that the impact of my day-to-day work far outweighed the ‘good’ I was doing. I came to realise how far out of alignment I was with my own values and my ideal vision of the world.
Unlocking Abundance Through Wealth Stewardship
Stephanie Brobbey
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