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Subjectivity through the lens of Guattari: A key concept for nursing
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
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David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa
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
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Listening to Earth Stories: An Interview with Swarnalatha Rangarajan [PDF]
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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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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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
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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
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The Papal Encyclical \u3cem\u3eLaudato Si’\u3c/em\u3e: A Focus on Sustainability Attentive to the Poor [PDF]
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”
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
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Towards an Ecosophical Praxis of New Media [PDF]
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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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
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