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Re-understanding of Technoscience and Nature through Actor-Network Theory  

Kim, Sook-Jin (Department of Geography, Konkuk University)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.45, no.4, 2010 , pp. 461-477 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recent environmental issues such as genetically modified organisms, the loss of biodiversity, climate change, and nuclear waste cannot be reduced to a matter of science or society and explained through nature-society dualist approaches because of their complexity and heterogeneity. This paper examines how nature-society dualism has been embedded in science studies and geography and how this dualism can be overcome. Actor-Network Theory as an attempt to overcome this nature-society dualism is appropriate in analysing "strange imbriglio" of biology, politics, technoscience, market, value, ethics and facts that constitute our society by focusing on heterogeneous association, and can contribute to providing a useful framework to solve environmental problems.
Keywords
nature; society; technoscience; dualism; Actor-Network Theory; environmental problems;
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