http://www.ecopaxmundi.org Critical Reflections on Peace, Ecology and Equity Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:36:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2012/01/03/dystopian-contemporary-positions-sustainable-development-as-a-manifest-instance-of-the-epistemological-disposition/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2011/05/24/towards-a-theoretical-articulation-of-the-age-of-re-embodiments/ We just had the pleasure to read the article "Point of Reference for a counter hegemony or nebulous empty phrase?" offering critical reflections on climate justice. Two elements made the article - a summary of discussion ongoing within the BUKO working group on social ecology - particularly interesting (to us): ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/08/16/more-critical-reflections-on-climate-justice/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/06/27/re-imagining-our-sociological-contemporaneity-what-is-the-age-of-re-embodiments-symposium/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/05/27/the-age-of-re-embodiments-in-the-global-geopolitical-map/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/02/26/the-iccr-the-re-embodiment-of-the-global-polity-an-ecofeminist-approach/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/02/15/sustainability-as-neoliberalisms-trojan-horse-in-ecocidal-times/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/02/03/a-jubilee-for-climate-justice-as-a-roadmap-to-penetrate-into-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. ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/02/03/measures-to-steadily-enter-the-age-of-re-embodiments/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/02/02/bolivia-cultural-diversity-ecofeminism/