Thinking Through Levees: How Political Agency Extends Beyond the Human Mind
Thinking Through Levees: How Political Agency Extends Beyond the Human Mind
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DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2019.1655387
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发表时间：
2019-10-14
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Izurieta, Clemente
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作者：
Bergmann, Nicolas T.;McEyoy, Jamie;Izurieta, Clemente
新兴的新唯物主义学术提供了一个令人兴奋的理论空间，不仅可以挑战人类机构的传统概念，还可以重新思考物质世界在塑造政治结果中的作用。虽然是一个广泛多样的知识运动，这个奖学金的共同目标是扩大传统的理解机构，包括非人类的对象。本文采用认知科学的见解，将政治代理的概念扩展到人类意图的范围之外。而不是集中在一个大规模的关系框架内的非人类的约束性的物质特征，我们认为在支持一个分布式的理解机构的基础上，共同宪法的本质思想本身。具体来说，我们整合的见解体现认知接地动力系统理论到既定的框架内的水社会循环认为，居民？在一个活跃的物质世界中的经验有助于解释某些洪水风险感知的存在。换句话说，人类的意图或机构？就像人们通常理解的那样？通过一个涉及大脑、身体和更广泛环境的共同宪法过程而存在。使用定性访谈数据，从两个社区沿着黄石河在蒙大拿州东部，我们支持我们的论点，通过调查的三种类型的体现经验之间的居民和堤坝，形状的风险认知。关键词：具身认知，水社会循环，新唯物主义，风险知觉。
Emerging new materialism scholarship provides an exciting theoretical space not only for challenging traditional conceptions of human agency but also for rethinking the role of the material world in shaping political outcomes. Although a wildly diverse intellectual movement, this scholarship shares the common goal of widening traditional understandings of agency to include nonhuman objects. This article adopts insights from cognitive science to extend the concept of political agency beyond the confines of human intention. Instead of focusing on the constraining material characteristics of the nonhuman within a large-scale relational framework, we argue in support of a distributive understanding of agency based on the co-constitutional essence of the mind itself. Specifically, we integrate insights from embodied cognition grounded in dynamical systems theory into the established framework of the hydrosocial cycle to argue that residents? experiences within an active material world help explain the existence of certain flood risk perceptions. In other words, human intention or agency?as it is commonly understood?comes into existence through a co-constitutional process involving brain, body, and aspects of a wider environment. Using qualitative interview data from two communities along the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana, we support our arguments through an investigation of three types of embodied experiences between residents and the levees that shape risk perception. Key Words: embodied cognition, hydrosocial cycle, new materialism, risk perception.