Dystopian Contemporary Positions: Sustainable Development As A Manifest Instance Of The Epistemological Disposition
This is the initial chapter of Ruth Thomas Pellicer’s doctoral thesis submitted (2011) at the University of Surrey (UK) under the title What ist Kultur: The Places of God In the Age of Re-Embodiments. The overall thesis conforms to a study of the philosophical elements that make up the epistemological, logocentric tradition as initiated by [...]
Towards a Theoretical Articulation of the Age of Re-Embodiments
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer is discussing with the Glasshouse Press an edited collection that aims to offer an early articulation of a theoretical foundation through which to capture processes of re-embodiment, to develop a cognitive foundation for the articulation of diverse but identifiable and overarching socio-political phenomenon, patchily visible all over the globe. It is also anticipated [...]
‘Re-Imagining Our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-Embodiments?’ - Symposium Announcement
The Theory Study Group section of the British Sociological Association is supporting the symposium ‘Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-Embodiments? on July 16th 2010 in London so that the invited speakers engage in a preliminary attempt to define the theoretical implications of this Age.
Re-embodiment is a global social phenomenon. It is [...]
The Age of Re-Embodiments in the Global Geopolitical Map
Processes of re-embodiment are a global social phenomenon. They are a popular and organized response against the excesses of Wester(nized) both modernity and postmodernity that also receive the firm support of international intellectual quarters and NGOs. These excesses are part of the colonial legacy. They are conspicuously epitomized in the international climate change regime (ICCR). [...]
The ICCR & the Re-Embodiment of the Global Polity: An Ecofeminist Approach
This kernel by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer proposes an ecofeminist methodology to critically analyse contemporary international regimes such as the climate one. This methodology goes by the retrieval of the etymological meanings of philosophia and scientia.This Nietzschean ‘transvaluation of values’ allows us to use and apply knowledge anew for the achievement of peace and equity. Key categories [...]
Sustainability as (Neo)liberalism’s Trojan Horse in Ecocidal Times
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer has published a critical reflection in the form of an Eco Pax Mundi kernel on the political and chrematistic role that the banner of SD/sustainability has been playing ever since it reached the international arena with the publication of Our Common Future in 1987. Ruth alerts us of the need not to get [...]
A Jubilee for Climate Justice as a Roadmap into the Age of Re-embodiments
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer introduces this Eco Pax Mundi kernel with the following words: “In the wake of Copenhagen’s foretold failure, what is urgently required is a vision. This kernel aims at proposing in firm the Age of Re-embodiments as the Mecca to attain the twin climatic and social justice and thus exit the ecocidal mode of [...]
Measures to Steadily Enter the Age of Re-embodiments
There is some urgency for us to engage in an Age of Re-embodiments. Such an age exacts the re-embodiment of human tread on the Planet in ecocycles and biorythems alike. This is in particular necessary for the technologically-sillily-developed West.
A global process of re-embodiment is incompatible with carbon markets. Karl Polanyi’s political economy is [...]
Bolivia, Cultural Diversity & Ecofeminism
BOLIVIA: Unprecedented Gender Parity in Cabinet
By Franz Chávez
“When he announced his new cabinet, Morales also said that Bolivian women’s social conscience, patriotism and dedication to defending national interests, as well as the respect he feels for his mother, sister and daughter, were factors in his decision to break with a long history of discrimination [...]
The Ethics of Carbon Trading: Learn to Stand On Your Own Two Feet and Be Brave
At the beginning of 2009 Clive Spash wrote a paper, The Brave New World of Carbon Trading, that was critical of carbon emissions trading schemes and argued redesign would not address the concerns raised. He was employed at the time by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO), which endeavoured to prevent the paper [...]
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