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Glaciers, gender, and science

A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research



  • University of Oregon, USA

  • Mark Carey, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Email: carey@uoregon.edu

Abstract

Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/08/0309132515623368.abstract
 
Moonflower said:
Glaciers, gender, and science

A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research



  • University of Oregon, USA

  • Mark Carey, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Email: carey@uoregon.edu

Abstract

Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/08/0309132515623368.abstract
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I really can't believe that this isn't some kind of elaborate hoax, do glaciers have vaginas? I have long considered much of American academia to be plain bonkers but this the absolute acme of pure bonkerism. I might also point out that they obtained over $400,000 of public money to publish this bollocks.

Glaciers aren’t just big hunks of ice, according to feminist and post-colonial* academics, but have feelings. This sentiment is considered to be more valid than eeevil masculinist and White science. This sentiment is also embodied in the peer reviewed article “Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research“. A gander at the abstract will give you a good taste of the insanity contained in the article:
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“Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.”
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In effect, “science” is just an insidious plot by White men to oppress other people by denying that glaciers have feeling and theremore mis-gendering those poor, suffering hunks of frozen water. “Science” then, is considered “Eurocentric” and “masculinist”, and thus axiomatically wrong and oppressive. Thus is becomes important to listen to folk understanding and the voice of native women (who are obviously a Rousseau-esqe “noble savage”) in order to liberate people from the eeevils of logic, experimentation, and scientific analysis.

The authors then go on to whine about how this evil magic perpetuated by White men (i.e. Science) doesn’t take into account cultural opinions, folk religion, and other “knowledge” outside of actual glaciology. This is because, as we are repeatedly told, science is “gendered” and denies the magical incites of womyn everywhere (except, of course, for women who are actual scientists). The evil of the White man’s “science” is somehow based on colonialism, imperialism and patriarchy, and not the scientific method, experimentation, and objectivity.

The “proof” of this “masculinist” domination is that historically it is men who have been explorers, mountaineers, and scientists. Thus, to feminist and post-colonial academics, it must be wrong, evil and oppressive. Q.E.D., so as to speak. For the Progressive left, there is no difference between men and women, with biological sex itself just being a “social construct“, unless it involves attacking men, in which case there’s totes huge differences!. Indeed, most of the article involves whining about men, especially White men.
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Objective research, such as using satellites for accurate and factual measurements is dismissed a a “god trick”, while “folk glaciologies” are considered sacrosanct and the embodiment of hidden and marginalized truths. The alternative then is:
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“Crucially for feminist glaciology, feminist political ecology argues for the integration of alternative ways of knowing, beyond diverse women’s knowledges to include –more broadly – the unsettling of Eurocentric knowledges, the questioning of dominant assumptions, and the diversification of modes and methods of knowledge production through the incorporation of everyday lived experiences, storytelling, narrative, and visual methods”
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Read more: http://politicalhat.com/2016/03/09/feminist-glaciology-or-stop-mis-gendering-glaciers/
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