War of the Whales: Post-Sovereign Science and Agonistic Cosmopolitics in Japanese-Global Whaling Assemblages
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War of the Whales : Post-Sovereign Science and Agonistic Cosmopolitics in Japanese-Global Whaling Assemblages. / Blok, Anders.
I: Science, Technology & Human Values, Bind 36, Nr. 1, 2011, s. 55-81.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - War of the Whales
T2 - Post-Sovereign Science and Agonistic Cosmopolitics in Japanese-Global Whaling Assemblages
AU - Blok, Anders
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article examines some of the difficulties of universalistic science insituations of deep conflict over global nature, using empirical material pertainingto ongoing controversies in the context of Japanese whaling practices.Within global-scale whaling assemblages since the 1970s, sciencehas become a ‘‘post-sovereign’’ authority, unable to impose any stable definitionof nature on all actors. Instead, across spaces of deep antagonisticdifferences, anti- and pro-whalers now ontologically enact a multiplicity ofmutually irreconcilable versions of whales. Empirically, the article attemptsto map out a ‘‘cosmogram’’ of Japanese pro-whaling enactments of abundantand ‘‘killable’’ whales. Following the political ecology of Bruno Latour,the global-scale situation is conceptualized as one of cosmopolitics, the politicsof forging a common world across divergences in nature-cultures.
AB - This article examines some of the difficulties of universalistic science insituations of deep conflict over global nature, using empirical material pertainingto ongoing controversies in the context of Japanese whaling practices.Within global-scale whaling assemblages since the 1970s, sciencehas become a ‘‘post-sovereign’’ authority, unable to impose any stable definitionof nature on all actors. Instead, across spaces of deep antagonisticdifferences, anti- and pro-whalers now ontologically enact a multiplicity ofmutually irreconcilable versions of whales. Empirically, the article attemptsto map out a ‘‘cosmogram’’ of Japanese pro-whaling enactments of abundantand ‘‘killable’’ whales. Following the political ecology of Bruno Latour,the global-scale situation is conceptualized as one of cosmopolitics, the politicsof forging a common world across divergences in nature-cultures.
U2 - 10.1177/0162243910366133
DO - 10.1177/0162243910366133
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - 55
EP - 81
JO - Science Technology and Human Values
JF - Science Technology and Human Values
SN - 0162-2439
IS - 1
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