What question did this study set out to answer?

The aim is to explore and contest the nature-culture divide in the Global South context, focusing on colonial influences.

May 25, 2026Open Access

Contested ecologies: dialogues in the south on nature and knowledge

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The aim is to explore and contest the nature-culture divide in the Global South context, focusing on colonial influences.
Compilation of chapters that engage in dialogues about ecology and coloniality.
Critical examination of scientific and indigenous knowledge frameworks.
Discussions that challenge traditional binary thinking between nature and culture.
Proposes a reimagining of ecology that transcends the nature-culture division.
Demonstrates the importance of integrating indigenous knowledge with modern ecological thinking.

Abstract

Contested Ecologies: Re-imagining the Nature-culture Divide in the Global South offers an intervention in the conversations on ecology and on coloniality, and on the ways in which modern thinking, with its bifurcation of nature and culture, constitutes 'ecology' within a very particular politics of the cosmos. The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.

Contested ecologies: dialogues in the south on nature and knowledge

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