Landscape, Process and Power

Landscape, Process and PowerIn recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe TEK or that incorporating it into development projects will improve the physical, social or economic well being of marginalized peoples. The

the notion that one cannot just do as one pleases) to one oriented around enjoyment

often conceived as the mere destructive or undesirable opposite of memory

This transdisciplinary inquiry presents a new way of thinking about sustainability and technology that takes us beyond the familiar preoccupation with ecoefficiency

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and interpersonal relations

who recognized how their critiques challenged the very foundations of philosophy

develop effective relationships with staff at clinical facilities

and cultural development

or of the miraculous feats of masters of esoteric arts

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and transgendered women

The essays attempt to explain how and when the poor secured access to these makeshifts and suggest how the balance of these strategies might change over time or be modified by gender