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Critical Realism and Ecological Economics: Counter-Intuitive Adversaries or Ostensible Soulmates?

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LIKAVČAN Lukáš

Rok publikování 2016
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Teorie vědy/Theory of Science
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Fakulta sociálních studií

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Obor Filosofie a náboženství
Klíčová slova ecological economics; actor-network theory; causality; collective events; critical realism; non-human actors; nature/culture dualism
Popis The paper questions the compatibility of critical realism with ecological economics. In particular, it is argued that there is radical dissonance between ontological presuppositions of ecological economics and critical realist perspective. The dissonance lies in the need of ecological economics to state strict causal regularities in socio-economic realm, given the environmental intuitions about the nature of economy and the role of materiality and non-human agency in persistence of economic systems. Using conceptual apparatus derived from Andrew Brown’s critique of critical realism and Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, the paper refuses ontological nature/society dualism employed by critical realism, and stresses the role of non-humans in practical production and reproduction of socio-economic networks on the one hand, and in broadly defined ecological economic research on the other hand.
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