Power of Position (Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences)

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How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies.
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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 areĀ 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 workā€”and information specialists must play a role in updating our notions of what it means to classify.
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In Power of Position, Montoya shows how classifications are systems thatĀ relate one entity with other entities, requiring those who construct a system toĀ valueĀ an entityā€™s relative importanceā€”by way of its positionā€”within a system of other entities. These practices, says Montoya, are important ways of constituting and exertingĀ power. Classification also has very real-world consequences. An animal classified as protected and endangered, for example, is protected by law. Montoya also discusses the Catalogue of Life, a new kind ofĀ composite classificationĀ that reconciles many local (ā€œtraditionalā€) taxonomies, forming a unified taxonomic backbone structure for organizing biological data. Finally, he shows how the theories of information studies are applicable to realms far beyond those of biological classification.
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Author:
Robert D. Montoya
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Paperback
Pages:
272
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MIT Press (May 24, 2022)
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English
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9780262045278
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0262045273
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History and Foundations of Information Science
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