Narrative,imagination, and the search for intelligibility in environmental ethics |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, CEP 05508-090 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil;2. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, Professor Almeida Prado 1466, CEP 05508-070 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil;3. Federal University of Western Pará, Rua Vera Paz, s/n (Unidade Tapajós) Bairro Salé, CEP 68040-255 Santarém, Pará, Brazil;4. Department of Physics, State University of Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, Pr 445 Km 380, Campus Universitário, CEP 86.057-970 Londrina, Paraná, Brazil;5. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA;6. Department of Archaeology, Federal University of Rondônia Foundation, Rod. BR-364, km. 9,5, CEP, 78923-250, Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil;7. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK;8. Institute of Geosciences, University of Brasilia, Campus Darcy Ribeiro, CEP 70910-900 Brasilia-DF, Brazil;1. Conservation Biology Research Group, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia 2308;2. Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria X001, South Africa;3. Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC SC29634, USA;4. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun-248001, India;5. Conservation Biology Research Group and School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia 2308.;6. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PO Box 5685 Torgarden, 7485 Trondheim, Norway;7. Research on the Ecology of Carnivores and their Prey (RECaP) Laboratory, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 48824, USA;8. Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Pretoria, South Africa;9. Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland;10. University of Freiburg, Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife Management, 79106 Freiburg, Germany;11. University of South Wales, 9 Graig Fach, Pontypridd CF37 4BB, UK;12. Department of Nature Conservation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa;13. Instituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS), Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM) – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Asociación Civil Centro de Investigaciones del Bosque Atlántico (CeIBA), Bertoni 85, Puerto Iguazú N3370BFA, Misiones, Argentina;14. School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK;15. CLAWS Conservancy, 32 Pine Tree Drive, Worcester, MA 01609, USA;p. Centre for Conservation Research, Calgary Zoological Society, 1300 Zoo Road N.E., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 7V6;q. Bavarian Forest National Park, Grafenau 94481, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This essay presents a contextualist defense of the role of narrative and metaphor in the articulation of environmental ethical theories. Both the intelligibility and persuasiveness of ecocentric concepts and arguments presuppose that proponents of these ideas can connect with the narratives and metaphors guiding the expectations and interpretations of their audiences. Too often objectivist presuppositions prevent the full contextualization of environmental ethical arguments. The result is a disembodied environmental discourse with diminished influence on citizens and policy makers. This essay is a pragmatist call for more philosophical attention to locating speakers, audiences, and meanings in more intelligible “discursive spaces.” |
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