http://www.ecopaxmundi.org Critical Reflections on Peace, Ecology and Equity Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:30:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/02/02/the-ethics-of-carbon-trading-learn-to-stand-on-your-own-two-feet-and-be-brave/ Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-embodiments? BSA - Theory Study Group Symposium * * * * * 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 ... http://www.ecopaxmundi.org/2010/01/24/re-imagining-our-sociological-contemporaneity-what-is-the-age-of-re-embodiments/