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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
Monsanto immediately forged several partnerships with NGOs: projects on the protection of wetlands, on the treatment of toxic waste and on the financing of the Environmental Protection Agency. One sign of the importance with which the firm’s management treated the question was the way the president of the company in person oversaw the coalition-building strategy with the environmental groups. In fact, many ‘environmental’ NGOs have flourished since the beginning of the 1980s on the basis of this kind of deal with industry.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
History in the large is the conflict of minorities; the majority applauds the victor and supplies the human material of social experiment.
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
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