Article ID: CBB344558063

Explaining knowledge pluralisms; the intertwining of culture and materiality (2020)

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A wide variety of theories explain how social factors influence and shape knowledges. Other theories describe how materialism and social elements coalesce. Largely still missing, however, is an argument that substantially addresses both culture and materiality. Using examples from four ethnographic case studies of culturally-distinct practitioners (two groups of Indigenous harvesters, a group of contaminant ecologists and a group of fisheries biologists) creating knowledge about the same topic (clams), I develop an explanation of how and why (useful) knowledge pluralisms exist. Using a process-based ontology for theorizing about materialism, I explore how conceptual frameworks and knowledge-making practices become intertwined with materiality. I argue that this intertwining allows for the creation of knowledge while simultaneously resulting in potentially differing knowledges about the same subject.

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Authors & Contributors
Shaw, Jamie
Vihalemm, Rein
Thorén, Henrik
Donhauser, Justin
Breian, Line
Fehige, Yiftach
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Pluralism (philosophy)
Sociology of knowledge
Methodology of science; scientific method
Theories of knowledge
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
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