Seminar 2008
Environments for life: turning the world outside-in
Professor Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold argued that one of the greatest impediments to securing the continuity of a world fit for humans and non-humans to live in, lies in the mismatch between the 'environment' of immediate experience and the 'Environment' of scientific and policy discourse. Overcoming this mismatch calls for a way of thinking about the environment that refuses absolute distinctions between the natural and the man-made and between stability and change.
Professor Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has written extensively on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on evolutionary theory in anthropology, biology and history, on the role of animals in human society, and on human ecology. He will argue that one of the greatest impediments to securing the continuity of a world fit for humans and non-humans to live in lies in the mismatch between the 'environment' of immediate experience and the 'Environment' of scientific and policy discourse. Overcoming this mismatch calls for a way of thinking about the environment that refuses absolute distinctions between the natural and the man-made and between stability and change.
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