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Subjectivity through the lens of Guattari: A key concept for nursing

open access: yesNursing Philosophy, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2024.
Abstract Félix Guattari, a French philosopher and psychotherapist often recognized for his collaboration with Gilles Deleuze, also published important work of his own. The way he conceptualizes subjectivity and schizoanalysis (later developed into institutional analysis) can incite us to interpret our social contexts differently and to help frame an ...
Jasmine Lavoie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa

open access: yesReview 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to Earth Stories: An Interview with Swarnalatha Rangarajan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this interview with Dr. Swarnalatha Rangarajan, a well known Indian ecocritic and a pioneer of Indian ecocriticism, discusses ecocriticism, her novel The Final Instructions, and a wide range of Indian environmental ...
K, Sufina, R, Bhuvaneswari
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Forests as Social Mirrors: What do Approaches to Forest Management Tell us About Human Social Relations?

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Toilet humour and ecology on the first page of Finnegans Wake: Žižek’s call of nature, answered by Joyce

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2017
This article draws out ecological aspects convergent on the first page of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939) and explores them through the philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s theoretical perspectives on humanity today and its relation to the waste and chaos that
Dan C. Bristow
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding mangrove conservation through metaphors in ecological discourse: An ecolinguistics study

open access: yesStudies 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Papal Encyclical \u3cem\u3eLaudato Si’\u3c/em\u3e: A Focus on Sustainability Attentive to the Poor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article seeks to reflect upon Laudato Si’, the papal encyclical on ecology and sustainable development, and uncover its apparent philosophical and practical approach to the environment.
Kennedy, Ann-Marie   +1 more
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Rendere visibile le alternative. Una critica ecosofica al dualismo “sostenibile”

open access: yesPhilosophy Kitchen, 2021
The aim of the present paper is to introduce a philosophical critique of the concept of sustainability through the ecosophy outlined by F. Guattari. According to the ecosophical perspective, the idea of sustainability hides the transcoding processes of ...
Gianluca De Fazio   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an Ecosophical Praxis of New Media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We live under the enduring shadow of ecological crisis. Contemporary theorists have suggested that this ‘problem of ecology’ indicates a more general crisis of human subjectivity.
Armstrong, Keith
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Att bekämpa Ragnarök

open access: yesDIN, 2023
Nordic Animism has become one of the more significant new theologies within the modern Pagan and Heathen community. Based on a counter-reading of earlier, often colonial, interpretations of religions that was perceived to belong to a more primitive form ...
Fredrik Gregorius
doaj  

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