Blurring Global Epistemic Boundaries: The Emergence of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Governance

Abstract: In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, ‘traditional knowledge’ became a recurring theme in global environmental governance. The emergence of traditional knowledge in a governance field marked by global science begs the following question: how is it that a particular set of intellectual activities other than science came to be perceived as a form of knowledge whose attributes are valuable for governing the global environment? This paper aims to grapple with this question by tracing the emergence of the category of traditional knowledge in global environmental governance. The main argument is that traditional knowledge came to be conceived of as a cognitive resource with utilitarian and ‘glocal’ properties through a series of interventions on the part of public scientists and landmark environmental reports that blurred the boundaries between science and nonscience. Building upon the concept of boundary work in Science and Technology Studies, this paper puts forth the

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 40 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Erstveröffentlichung
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Global Cooperation Research Papers ; Bd. 25

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
(wann)
2020
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Duisburg
(wer)
Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)
(wann)
2020
Urheber
López-Rivera, Andrés
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
Käte Hamburger Kolleg. Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

DOI
10.14282/2198-0411-GCRP-25
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-69721-5
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
11.03.1970, 00:00 MEZ

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Beteiligte

  • López-Rivera, Andrés
  • Käte Hamburger Kolleg. Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)
  • SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
  • Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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