What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]
Posts Tagged ‘bifurcation of nature’
The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Academe, anthropology, bifurcation of nature, disciplinarity, Foucault, geography, interdisciplinarity, Morris Berman, Occupy Anthropology, philosophy, political ecology, transdisciplinarity on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »