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Bruce Janz (2008) has worked out a challenging kind of ‘ethics of place’, which has triggered a lot of ideas and questions in my mind. In this commentary I will first outline how I have understood his contribution, second, I will have some critical remarks to make about it and, finally, I will describe how Janz’s work touches on some of my own research findings.
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Swart, J. (2009). Towards an Epistemology of Place. In: Drenthen, M., Keulartz, F., Proctor, J. (eds) New Visions of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2611-8_15
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