The Political Definition of Limits
摘要
Starting from the ethnographic work and in dialogue with some pieces of literature, the last pages have developed a contrasted structure of limits, in which the politically defined limits that frame ecological practice are dynamically and contextually discerned in reference to a level of given limits that is grasped by a prelinguistic interpretive knowledge arisen from proximity and linguistically mediated with the particular human use of language. The new limits are also inserted in a context of already-defined limits, by the community itself or by other actors at different levels (such as the national state or the regional government). Now then, this deliberative process does not seem to be only individual, but fundamentally collective. The personal views on limits and modes of dealing with them are developed and shaped through different communal instances of joint deliberation that give rise to shared rules and agreements of the community.