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Roads, Cars, and Big Oil: The Risks of a Malformed Ecosystem

January 2012

Conference: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
At: Colorado Springs, CO

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Miami Dade College

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Kenneth Boulding's Theory of Social Ecosystems

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Kenneth Boulding, largely known as one of the founders of evolutionary and ecological economics, developed his economic views as part of a larger program of social ecology. This article introduces that larger social ecological paradigm and shows its relations to some work in later systems theory and in Felix Guatarri's "Three Ecologies," while suggesting ways to expand the system to look particularly at "technological ecosystems."

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Measurements of environmental toxicity from long-term exposure to oil contamination have delivered inaccurate and contradictory results regarding the potential harms for humans and ecosystems. This has led to a methodological discourse, in which orthodox approaches to risk assessment of oil toxicity are questioned. We argue that methodological stances towards risk assessment in cases of oil ... [Show full abstract] contamination hide deeper commitments to basic assumptions concerning the nature of causation. Explication and examination of such assumptions ought to be the starting point for a deeper methodological discussion, to identify the source of disagreement. This paper is an attempt to contribute to this groundwork.

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Kenneth Boulding's Theory of Social Ecosystems

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Darrell Arnold

Kenneth Boulding, largely known as one of the founders of evolutionary and ecological economics, developed his economic views as part of a larger program of social ecology. This article introduces that larger social ecological paradigm and shows its relations to some work in later systems theory and in Felix Guatarri's "Three Ecologies," while suggesting ways to expand the system to look ... [Show full abstract] particularly at "technological ecosystems."

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Critical theory is a philosophical social scientific research program that engages in explanation against a background of normative interests. While Max Horkheimer conceived of the original research program as an attempt to revive a form of nonorthodox Marxism, Jürgen Habermas, the main representative of the second generation of critical theory, has developed a research program on the basis of a ... [Show full abstract] rational reconstruction of competencies of communicative action while increasingly assimilating the work of American pragmatists. Current critical theorists – besides Habermas – see a need to reconstruct the original research program, while retaining its orientation as a normatively driven theory.

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