Knowing Waste: Towards an Inhuman Epistemology

Social Epistemology

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 453-469

  Hird, Myra J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environment; Feminist Epistemology; Inhuman; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871265175     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: 14645297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2012.727195     Document Type: Article

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