The ecological and social (mainly agricultural) effects of trying to describe the world in a single language. The effects of a 'dominant knowledge' as opposed to 'local knowledges'. 

• Material history: Michel Foucault
• Foucault, M. (1980) "Power/Knowledge". The poverty of 'global knowledge' as opposed to 'subjugated knowledges'
• Stewart, I., & Cohen, J. (1997) "Figments of reality: the evolution of the curious mind". Simplex, complex, multiplex
• Alan D. Sokal
• Sociological approaches to ecological uncertainty