The once and future georgic: Agricultural practice, environmental knowledge, and the place for an ethic of experience
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Abstract
- This paper re-introduces the georgic ethic and the role it has historically played in
debates about new agricultural practices. Public engagement, participatory
research, and greater local involvement in crafting new means to work the land
flood the literature of agrarian studies. Putting the experience- and place-based
georgic into that discourse can help deepen its character and future possibilities.
The paper draws from recent sociological research into the acceptance and
resistance to new practices to show the georgic’s explanatory, descriptive utility
in studies of those controversies. It also highlights how agricultural and
environmental ethicists can draw from the georgic tradition for its prescriptive
and normative possibilities to put practitioners back into the agricultural policy
process and to draw more firmly from the notion that knowledge of the
environment is constituted in practices of living in it. Placing the language and
terms of the georgic ethic more centrally into public conversations about
agricultural ethics and policy can enrich those conversations by structuring them
with attention to experience, place-based values, and the moral space of
interaction between humans and the land.
| Title | The once and future georgic: Agricultural practice, environmental knowledge, and the place for an ethic of experience |
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| Creator | Cohen, Benjamin R. |
| Publisher | Agriculture and Human Values |
| Academic Department | Engineering Studies |
| Division | Engineering |
| Organization | Lafayette College |
| Date Issued | 2009 |
| Date Available | 2013-10-21T17:06:18Z |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Bibliographic Citation | Cohen, B. R. (2009) "The once and future georgic: Agricultural practice, environmental knowledge, and the place for an ethic of experience." Agriculture and Human Values 26 (3): 153–165. |
| Standard Identifier | DOI 10.1007/s10460-008-9172-7 |
| Handle 10385/1346 | |
| Permalink | http://hdl.handle.net/10385/1346 |
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| Rights Holders | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. |
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