CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Thomas, Geoffrey |
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| Title | Valuing and relating to the more-than-human world: Latour, Haraway and the life frame of values |
| Summary | This thesis examines making intrinsic values work; integrating intrinsic values of the more‐than‐human world through the Life Framework of Values using the perspectives of Haraway and Latour. O’Connor and Kenter’s Life Framework of Values (LFV) is an innovative and comprehensible means to communicate intrinsic and relational values, which are conceived of as related to living with, from, in and as the more-than-human world. The LFV seeks to operationalize intrinsic values in the context of conservation and sustainability. This thesis brings perspectives from Latour and Haraway to bear on environmental ethics discussions, especially around intrinsic and relational values. The work of Latour and Haraway expands the understanding of the more-than-human world, examines conceptions of nature and wilderness, looks at nature/culture interaction and proposes the inclusion of the Gaia and the Anthropocene as essential conceptual frameworks. Latour and Haraway’s work on relationality provides insight into the LFV. Latour’s actor-network theory increases the range of entities and objects that participate in networks and gives these actors greater agency. The concept of the Anthropocene means that relations between the human and the more-than-human have become central forces, and provides historical, political and economic background to the current ecological crisis. Acceptance of the Anthropocene and Gaia means that we exist in a limited critical zone. Latour and Haraway argue against universalizing ethical systems. Latour advocates ethical sensitization and Haraway argues for situated knowledge and attention to entanglement and injustice. The combination of these insights might be used to strengthen and improve the LFV. |
| Supervisor | Alan Watt |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/thomas_geoffrey.pdf |
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