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20. Knowing of Ontologies: Map-Making to ‘See’ Worlds of Relations

verfasst von : Caitlin Ryan

Erschienen in: International Relations in the Anthropocene

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The research method outlined in this chapter started from a question of whether agribusiness companies had a different understanding of what land ‘is’ than farming communities in Sierra Leone. From there, I ran into a ‘problem’ in research design: what kinds of methods can social scientists use to investigate these diverse experiences of being? If there is a radical difference in understanding the nature of being, then the ability to experience that difference—to truly know it—is hardly resolvable. However, it is possible learn about these diverse understandings. This chapter illustrates this with a method of ‘community mapping.’ Rather than a ‘flat map’ produced on a surface, this is a ‘living’ map of relationality. In the method, relations between people, ancestors, crops, chickens, goats, and stones (among others) are ‘acted out’ for the benefit of me, the researcher. Though acting out these relations, communities can ‘show’ other understandings of the nature of being.

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Metadaten
Titel
Knowing of Ontologies: Map-Making to ‘See’ Worlds of Relations
verfasst von
Caitlin Ryan
Copyright-Jahr
2021
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_20

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