Power of Position (häftad, eng)
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The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well knowAccording to Robert D. Montoya, classifications are powerful mechanisms and we must better attend to the machinations of power inherent in them, as well as to how the effects of this power proliferate beyond the boundaries of their original intent. We must acknowledge the many ways our classifications are implicated in environmental, ecological, and social justice work—and information specialists must play a role in updating our notions of what it means to classify.
In Power of Position, Montoya shows how classifications are systems that relate one entity with other entities, requiring those who construct a system to value an entity’s relative importance—by way of its position—within a system of other entitiesThese practices, says Montoya, are important ways of constituting and exerting power. Classification also has very real-world consequences. An animal classified as protected and endangered, for example, is protected by law. Montoya also discusses the Catalogue of Life, a new kind of composite classification that reconciles many local (“traditional”) taxonomies, forming a unified taxonomic backbone structure for organizing biological data.
Finally, he shows how the theories of information studies are applicable to realms far beyond those of biological classification.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 224 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | MIT Press Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum | 2022-05-24 |
ISBN | 9780262045278 |
Artikelnummer
2961130
EAN
9780262045278
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