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Multiple, connective intellection: the condition for invention

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2015
Since this article involves invention, the conditions for inventiveness become the issue: assuming multiple reality; thinking in a special way; transgressing boundaries; acknowledging networks (in the terms of Michel Serres: communication, transduction ...
C S (Fanie) de Beer
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David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 326-335, July 2024.
Abstract In two recent South African cases, Indigenous communities successfully challenged proposed fossil fuel exploration activities by the Shell petroleum company off South Africa's pristine West Coast. In contrast to earlier climate litigation cases in South Africa, the litigants relied specifically on their Indigenous rights and knowledge. In this
Louise du Toit, Caiphas Soyapi, Louis J. Kotzé   +2 more
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Forests as Social Mirrors: What do Approaches to Forest Management Tell us About Human Social Relations?

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 105, Issue 1, January 2024.
Abstract There is evidence to suggest that the nature of human impact upon forests, measured both quantitatively and qualitatively, tells a story about dominant social paradigms throughout recent history. In this sense, forests are social mirrors. Collectively, we are consuming ecological resources at 1.5 times the rate they can be replenished, while ...
Andrew Walton
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Editorial: the 2 + necosophies [PDF]

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2017
Contemporary ecological crises fundamentally threaten our ability to continue inhabiting earth, yet geographical research has only tentatively engaged with perspectives that seek to rethink the human– earth relationship. ‘Ecosophical’ theories, practices and politics recognize that ‘a global culture of a primarily techno-industrial nature is now ...
TAYLOR AIKEN, Gerald, Shaw, Robert
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Contemporary Ecosophies and Ecorhythmology

Hungarian Studies Yearbook, 2023
Abstract The present paper compares the author’s original proposal called ecorhythmology with contemporary ecophilosophies. After briefly outlining the background and results of more than two decades of research, it examines the seminal theses of Object Oriented Ontology (Graham Harman), Action Network Theory ...
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Educação complexa para uma nova política de civilização Complex education for a new policy of civilization

Educar em Revista, 2008
Este artigo apresenta reflexões a partir de três eixos interdependentes e complementares, que têm norteado nossas ações educacionais. Inicialmente, procuramos conhecer o sujeito do processo educacional, considerando as influências recebidas da ...
Izabel Petraglia
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Understanding mangrove conservation through metaphors in ecological discourse: An ecolinguistics study

Studies in English Language and Education
Metaphor is deeply pervasive in human life. It is not only used in aesthetic or literary languages but also in everyday colloquial speech. This study aims to investigate conceptual metaphor in ecological discourse related to mangrove conservation on the ...
Muhammad Kiki Wardana, Dwi Widayati, Mulyadi Mulyadi, Tengku Thyrhaya Zein   +3 more
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ЭКОЛОГИЯ ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО СОЗНАНИЯ И САМОСОЗНАНИЯ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ СТУДЕНТОВ ДВГМУ)

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2015
Актуальность темы обусловлена  умножением экологических проблем, являющих-ся закономерным результатом направленности приоритетов современного общества на производство и потребление материальных благ.
Olga Anatolievna Bortnyuk
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Deep Ecology as a framework for student eco-philosophical thinking

Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 2015
Deep ecology is an ecological philosophy that promotes an ecocentric lifestyle to remedy the problems of depleting resources and planetary degradation.
William Smith, Annette Gough
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Martí and Emersonas referents of the ecosophic thinking

Transformación, 2015
The article describes one of the findings of the research project "Epistemological foundations of environmental education". An analytical and comparative reading of José Martí texts addressing the issue of nature together with excerpts of the work of ...
Roeris González Sivilla , Isidro Eduardo Méndez Santos, Matilde Teresa Varela Aristigueta   +2 more
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