Power of Position: Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences by Robert D. Montoya
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Overview: How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well know. According to Robert D. Montoya, classifications are powerful mechanisms and we must better attend to the machinations of power inherent in them, as well as to how the effects of this power proliferate beyond the boundaries of their original intent. We must acknowledge the many ways our classifications are implicated in environmental, ecological, and social justice work—and information specialists must play a role in updating our notions of what it means to classify.
In Power of Position, Montoya shows how classifications are systems that relate one entity with other entities, requiring those who construct a system to value an…
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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