‘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 [...]
Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-embodiments?
Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-embodiments?
BSA - Theory Study Group Symposium
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Call for Contributions
The topicality of climate justice is indisputable. Debates on the shape of post-Kyoto treaties for climate and social equity abound. Similarly, popular initiatives to set up tribunals to fight those responsible for climate forcing and [...]
Land Reforms and Management of Natural Resources in Africa and Latin America Conference
Panels scientific committee
PANELS PROPOSED TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
A meeting is being held for the report presentations of the following panels:
1. Economic development, land possession and poverty
Coordinators: Nuria Duperier, Gonzalo Ramírez de Haro
The panel concerning economic development, land possession and poverty will be directed at:
- Analysing to what [...]
