PUBLICATIONS since 1998 and selected prior
publications
For full list of publications see curriculum vitae
Publications marked * form the basis of the chapters indicated from
The Limits of Ecology (under contract with the University of Chicago
Press and submitted for review mid-July), so readers can choose whether to read
the original publications or the book manuscript.
Refereed Articles
"Situatedness and Problematic Boundaries: Conceptualizing Life's Complex
Ecological Context," Biology & Philosophy, in press
"Socio-ecological webs and sites of sociality: Levins' strategy of model
building revisited," Biology & Philosophy, 15 (2), 197-210,
2000.* (LoE, chap. 2)
"How does the commons become tragic? Simple models as complex socio-political
constructions" Science as Culture, 7 (4), 449-464, 1998.
"Natural Selection: A heavy hand in biological and social thought,"
Science as Culture, 7 (1), 5-32, 1998.
"Building on construction: An exploration of heterogeneous constructionism,
using an analogy from psychology and a sketch from socio-economic modelling"
Perspectives on Science, 3(1), 66-98, 1995.* (the second half
has been worked into LoE, chap. 4A)
"The social analysis of ecological change: From systems to intersecting
processes" Social Science Information, 34: 5-30, 1995. (With R.
García-Barrios)
"Ecosystems as circuits: Diagrams and the limits of physical analogies"
Biology & Philosophy, 6:275-294, 1991. (With A. Blum)*
(LoE, chap. 3B)
"Technocratic optimism, H.T. Odum and the partial transformation of ecological
metaphor after World War 2" J. Hist. Biol. 21:213-244, 1988.*
(LoE, chap. 3A)
Book chapters
"Philosophy of Ecology," Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London:
Macmillan, 2001. (with Y. Haila)
"'Whose trees are these?' Bridging the divide between subjects and
outsider-researchers," for R. Eglash and G. DiChiro (eds.), Appropriating
Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming.*
(LoE, Interlude)
"Distributed agency within intersecting ecological, social, and scientific
processes," pp. 313-332 in S. Oyama, P. Griffiths and R. Gray (Eds.), Cycles
of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2000.
"Non-standard lessons from the 'tragedy of the commons'," in M. Maniates (ed.)
Empowering Knowledge: A Primer for Teaching and Learning Global
Environmental Politics. Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.
"What can agents do?: Engaging with complexities of the post-Hardin commons,"
pp. 125-156 in L. Freese (ed.), Advances in Human Ecology, Vol. 8.
Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1999.* (LoE, chap. 6)
"Mapping complex social-natural processes: Cases from Mexico and Africa," in F.
Fischer and M. Hajer (eds.) Living with Nature: Environmental Discourse as
Cultural Critique, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 121-134, 1999.
"From natural selection to natural construction to disciplining unruly
complexity: The challenge of integrating ecology into evolutionary theory," in
R. Singh, K. Krimbas, D. Paul & J. Beatty (eds.), Thinking About
Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 377-393, 2000.
"How do we know we have global environmental problems? Undifferentiated
science-politics and its potential reconstruction," in P. Taylor, S. Halfon
& P. Edwards (eds.) Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies,
Commodities Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 149-174, 1997.
"The dynamics of socio-environmental change and the limits of neo-Malthusian
environmentalism," in M. Dore and T. Mount (eds.), Global Environmental
Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets. Oxford, Blackwell, 139-167,
1999. (With R. García-Barrios)
"Re/constructing socio-ecologies: System dynamics modeling of nomadic
pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa" pp.115-148 in A. Clarke & J. Fujimura
(eds.) The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth Century Life
Sciences, Princeton University Press, 1992.* (LoE, chap. 4B and
5A)
"Community" pp. 52-60 in E.F. Keller & E. Lloyd (eds.) Keywords in
Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press, 1992
Reviews, commentaries, and notes
"Making connections and respecting differences: Reconciling schemas for
learning and group process," Connexions (Newsletter of the International
Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives), March & July 1997.
"Appearances notwithstanding, we are all doing something like political
ecology" Social Epistemology, 11 (1): 111-127, 1997.
Conference Proceedings
"Alternating between teacher and facilitator," Proceedings of the
International Association of Facilitators 2000, http://www.iaf-world.org,
2000
"Mapping ecologists' ecologies of knowledge" Proceedings of the Philosophy
of Science Association 1990, Vol.2, 95-109* (LoE, chap. 5B)
Works In Progress
** items not sent to outside reviewers
The Limits of Ecology and the Re/construction of Unruly Complexity Book
manuscript for the University of Chicago Press.
"Genes, gestation, and life experience: Environmental complexities in the age
of DNA," for Science as Culture**
"Exploring heuristics about social agency through interpretation of diagrams of
nature and society," for How Does Nature Speak: Dynamic Understandings,
ed. Y. Haila and C. Dyke**
"The hidden complexity of simple models, or Why theorists of all kinds should
be troubled by unmodeled variables having dynamical lives of their own," for
Complexities Of Life: Ecology, Society And Health, ef. T. Awerbach*
(LoE, chap. 1B)**
"Critical thinking re-seen: Journeying and opening up questions"**