Patricia Glazebrook

Washington State University | WSU · School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs

This paper challenges that Ihde’s and Stiegler’s approaches stand in radical opposition. It argues that ethos is prior to law, exposes a Heideggerian rift between technoscience and technics, and rejects separation of theory from practice in favor of logics of poiêsis.

The suddenness of the global pandemic - Covid-19 accompanied by the locking-down of almost the entire world, clearly demonstrates the humans’ vulnerability. Alongside the economy, the next most hit is the environment – precisely climate change issues. Over time, many researchers have warned the importance of educating the next generation of the hum...

This article asks, what is worth knowing? The concept of objectivity in contemporary philosophy of science is argued to de-value indigenous knowledge-systems and gendered approaches. Community bias is argued to confound rogue research with gendered and indigenous situatedness. This problem is resolved using the innovation of ‘ecosystem services.’ T...

The suddenness of the global pandemic-Covid-19 accompanied by the locking-down of almost the entire world clearly demonstrates humans' vulnerability. Alongside the economy, the next most hit is the environment-precisely climate change issues. Over time, many researchers have warned the importance of educating the next generation of the human race a...

The suddenness of the global pandemic - Covid-19 accompanied by the locking-down of almost the entire world, clearly demonstrates the humans’ vulnerability. Alongside the economy, the next most hit is the environment – precisely climate change issues. Over time, many researchers have warned the importance of educating the next generation of the hum...

Africa was the only continent not to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of 50% poverty reduction. This paper asks whether Africa will fare better in meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressing poverty and hunger by 2030. To answer this question, we examine a diverse body of literature and provide relevant longitudinal data col...

Africa was the only continent not to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of 50% poverty reduction. This paper asks whether Africa will fare better in meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressing poverty and hunger by 2030. To answer this question we examine literature, including our field research published over the last thirtee...

Can investing in women’s agriculture increase productivity? This paper argues that it can. We assess climate and gender bias impacts on women’s production in the global South and North and challenge the male model of agricultural development to argue further that women’s farming approaches can be more sustainable. Level-based analysis (global, regi...

Can investing in women’s agriculture increase productivity? This paper argues that it can. We assess climate impacts and gender bias on women’s production in the global South and North and challenge the male model of agricultural development to argue further that women’s farming approaches can be more sustainable. Level-based analysis (global, regi...

This paper traces the development of Ihde’s revolutionary phenomenology from his early foray into sound as an issue for popular media and his experience of intellectual revolution in Paris in 1968 to his interrogation of the privilege of visuality in scientific praxis and his examination of rock music as a therapeutic alternative to mono-sensual vi...

O primeiro artigo que publiquei sobre ecofeminismo foi uma análise do tratamento de Heidegger sobre a natureza a partir de sua crítica da ciência e da tecnologia (Glazebrook, 2001). Hoje, mais de duas décadas depois, continuo escrevendo como uma ecofeminista heideggeriana sobre gênero e mudanças climáticas, especialmente sobre adaptação e finanças,...

This paper argues that the activities of environmental protectors often mitigate climate change, and therefore the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Human Rights Council (HRC) should extend explicit protection to land and environmental defenders on this basis. First, we overview who and where protectors are, what th...

This paper argues that sustainability is a candidate for what Heidegger calls the saving power. The argument focusses on three issues: reduction of nature to resource, exclusion of other knowledge-systems, and anthropocentrism. First, based on Heidegger’s accounts of the historical emergence of modern technology and the role and limits of science i...

Ghana is aware of women farmers’ climate adaptation challenges in meeting the country’s food security needs and has strong intentions to support these women, but is stymied by economic limitations, poor organization in governance, persistent social gender biases, and either little or counter-productive support from international policy makers and a...

This paper argues there is ethical and practical necessity for including women’s needs, perspectives and expertise in international climate change negotiations. I show that climate change contributes to women’s hardships because of the conjunction of the feminization of poverty and environmental degradation caused by climate change. I then provide...

Excerpt This contribution shows how the Anthropocene is dominated by the logic of patriarchal capital, and describes alternative bio-logics based on care. The scientific method is shown to provide the logic that makes possible this domination. Objectivity and the mathematization of nature are given post-Heideggerian, ecofeminist analysis. The scien...

This paper is a preliminary application of Heidegger’s thinking to international development studies. We argue first that his account of truth makes just as much sense of cultural difference as it does of differences between historical epochs. Secondly, we assess Heidegger’s critique of modernity by tracing the emergence of modern technology in rel...

Ecological restoration is the practice of ecosystem management that alters an ecosystem, site, or area in order to return it to an earlier state. Restoration is most commonly intended to reestablish conditions at a site prior to a specific human intervention, especially resource extraction, by changing a degraded system's structure, function, diver...

Purpose – This chapter examines Talisman Energy's operations in the Sudan, as part of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC). It seeks to demonstrate that international corporate culture precludes ethical decision-making and practices by placing would-be ethical actors in untenable situations. Methodology/approach – A case study appro...

The first collection of essays devoted to Heidegger's contribution to understanding modern science.

This paper argues that there is ethical and practical necessity for including women's needs, perspectives, and expertise in international climate change negotiations. I show that climate change contributes to women's hardships because of the conjunction of the feminization of poverty and environmental degradation caused by climate change. I then pr...

The latest form of violence in the Niger Delta, i.e., hostage taking by militant male youth, reproduces the "logic of capital" that characterizes state and corporate violence. This logic of capital can be explicated in contrast to a relational account of community that can ground alternative logics of care. Nigeria's oil policy led to drilling impa...

Mesurant l'influence de l'aristotelisme sur la pensee de la technologie chez Heidegger, l'A. montre que son analyse de la technicite s'inscrit dans une histoire de la science qui prend ses distances avec la metaphysique de la matiere et de la forme. Contre la metaphysique moderne de la subjectivite, l'A. examine la relation entre science, nature et...

Ethics & the Environment 10.2 (2005) 75-99 Ludwig Fleck describes in his Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact how the concept of syphilis is "a result of the development and confluence of several lines of collective thought" (Fleck 1979, 23). Diagnosis and treatment of the disease required that its symptomatology undergo transformation from...

Technology theorists are remarkably silent on the topic of globalization. Although philosophy of technology is burgeoning as a discipline, its proponents have little to say about technology transfer to developing nations, and the impact on the global human condition of technology outside the West, or, as it is also called, the North. There are exce...

Ethics & the Environment 8.1 (2003) 22-36 Aristotle believed strongly in a distinction between artifact (technê) and nature (physis). He intended by "technê" more than is generally understood by the contemporary term "art," for he meant anything produced by human intention. For example, for Aristotle medicine was technê in that the doctor produces...

Ethics & the Environment 7.2 (2002) 12-26 Ecofeminism has conceptual beginnings in the French tradition of feminist theory. In 1952, Simone de Beauvoir pointed out that in the logic of patriarchy, both women and nature appear as other (de Beauvoir 1952, 114). In 1974, Luce Irigaray diagnosed philosophically a phallic logic of the Same that preclude...

This paper describes Heidegger as a robust scientific realist, explains why his view has received such conflicting treatment, and concludes that the special significance of his position lies in his insistence upon linking the discussion of science to the question of its relation with technology. It shows that Heidegger, rather than accepting the us...

Journal of the History of Ideas 62.2 (2001) 193-210 Galileo wrote in The Assayer that the universe "is written in the language of mathematics," and therein both established and articulated a foundational belief for the modern physicist. That physical reality can be interpreted mathematically is an assumption so fundamental to modern physics that ch...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1994. Includes bibliographical references.