Moving beyond the modernist institutions of mononaturalism and multiculturalism, Latour develops the idea of multinaturalism, a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by diplomats who are flexible and open to experimentation This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecology. Latour proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology?
1(8)
1. Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature
9(44)
First, Get Out of the Cave
10(8)
Ecological Crisis or Crisis of Objectivity?
18(7)
The End of Nature
25(7)
The Pitfall of Social Representations of Nature
32(10)
The Fragile Aid of Comparative Anthropology
42(7)
What Successor for the Bicameral Collective?
49(4)
2. How to Bring the Collective Together
53(38)
Difficulties In Convoking the Collective
57(5)
First Division: Learning to Be Circumspect with Spokespersons
62(8)
Second Division: Associations of Humans and Nonhumans
70(7)
Third Division between Humans and Nonhumans: Reality and Recalcitrance
77(5)
A More or Less Articulated Collective
82(5)
The Return to Civil Peace
87(4)
3. A New Separation of Powers
91(37)
Some Disadvantages of the Concepts of Fact and Value
95(7)
The Power to Take into Account and the Power to Put in Order
102(6)
The Collective's Two Powers of Representation
108(8)
Verifying That the Essential Guarantees Have Been Maintained
116(5)
A New Exteriority
121(7)
4. Skills for the Collective
128(56)
The Third Nature and the Quarrel between the Two Eco Sciences
131(5)
Contribution of the Professions to the Procedures of the Houses
136(28)
The Work of the Houses
164(16)
The Common Dwelling, the Oikos
180(4)
5. Exploring Common Worlds
184(37)
Time's Two Arrows
188(6)
The Learning Curve
194(6)
The Third Power and the Question of the State
200(9)
The Exercise of Diplomacy
209(8)
War and Peace for the Sciences
217(4)
Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology!
221(10)
Summary of the Argument (for Readers in a Hurry...)
231(6)
Glossary
237(14)
Notes
251(36)
Bibliography
287(14)
Index
301