Search results for "environmental ethics"

Islands of vulnerability and resilience: Manufactured stereotypes?

2018

This paper interrogates the aspects of islandness labelled ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ through analysing the concepts’ definitions from a development perspective. The investigation is conducted through the lens of four assumed islandness aspects: boundedness, smallness, isolation, and littorality. Discussion examines how and why core concepts of vulnerability and resilience have emerged from island studies, demonstrating how these two aspects of islandness are socially and culturally constructed, can influence development approaches taken, and are enhanced by island geographies. Drawing on insights from island geographies around the world, while comparing island and non-island perspect…

Resilience, security and the politics of processes

2014

The prominence of resilience thinking in contemporary governance and security policies has received increasing critical attention. By engaging in dialogue with some of these recent critiques, predominantly leaning on biopolitics or neoliberal governmentality, this article develops an Arendtian reading of resilience as a temporal regime of processuality. Originating from life sciences such as ecology and complexity thinking, the increasingly malleable resilience discourse privileges the functioning of societal life processes over political action and human artifice. The article argues that this ‘rule of nobody’ is in danger of suffocating the concept of public space, so crucial for politics …

Critiquing and Joining Intersections of Disaster, Conflict, and Peace Research

2020

AbstractDisaster research, conflict research, and peace research have rich and deep histories, yet they do not always fully intersect or learn from each other, even when they investigate if and how disasters lead to conflict or peace. Scholarship has tended to focus on investigating causal linkages between disaster (including those associated with climate change) and conflict, and disaster diplomacy emerged as a thread of explanatory research that investigates how and why disaster-related activities do and do not influence peace and conflict. However, definitive conclusions on the disaster-conflict-peace nexus have evaded scientific consensus, in part due to conceptual, methodological, and …

The Dark Society

2020

Ulrich Beck, a German sociologist who does not need previous presentation, casts his diagnosis about risk society as a new emerging ethos where social class and hierarchies blurred before the figure of risk. Although he shed light on the post-industrial society of the 90s, today the society he studied seems to be pretty different. Hence, a new fresh insight should replace it. This article introduces readers to the conceptual foundations of Thana Capitalism, as it was critically debated in our book The Rise of Thana Capitalism and Tourism. Per the author's conception, the risk society sets the pace to a new facet of capitalism where the other's pain remains as the main commodity to exchange.…

Climate Change and Global Justice: New Problem, Old Paradigm?

2014

In this paper, we focus on the conceptualization of climate change as an issue of global justice. While we do not deny that climate change raises fundamental and dramatic issues of justice among peoples as well as generations, our claim is that the language of global justice can obscure the fact that problems provoked by climate change lack some characteristic features of problems of global justice, while possessing others that are not characteristic of such problems. We begin by describing briefly how we got to where we are, climatically speaking; we go on to show why it is plausible to think of climate change as provoking problems of global justice; point out four respects in which this d…

Green grass, red blood, blueprint: reflections on life, self-replication, and evolution

2006

Rhetoric About Sustainability in Education: The Presence of the Words Not Spoken

2015

In this chapter, Rhetoric about Sustainability in Education The presence of the words not spoken, Astrid Stifoss-Hanssen addresses the rhetorical situation that one runs into when addressing concepts of sustainability. The theme here is how rhetoric and reality can be reconciled. A key concept is ethos. Ethos implies that you really mean what you say and live by it.

Sir Thomas More's Utopia : An overlooked economic classic

2019

Sir Thomas More's Utopia, published in 1516, is a classic work of how to organise a society based on common property. With a unique mix of common property, institutions and sound economic insights, we argue that More built a framework for a society that could be viable in the long run. While the conditions that make Utopia work are quite restrictive, it does provide a sketch of a society where common property may not stifle long‐term development, but is associated with productive workers and people content with their lives.

Dominating, Protecting, Creating. A Philosophical Essay about Utopianist Attitudes

2017

La cuestión medioambiental acapara cada día la atención internacional y condiciona en buena medida las fantasías condenatorias de la sociedad actual. Persistentemente se nos anuncian finales del mundo y escenarios apocalípticos brotados de la venganza de la naturaleza, víctima, se cuenta, del progreso irresponsable y devastador del ser humano. En este artículo pretendemos reflexionar filosóficamente en torno a los impactos de la acción humana sobre el mundo físico adoptando como objeto de estudio las actitudes de la utopía ante la naturaleza. Nuestra intención principal es la de sugerir una aproximación utopista a los problemas ecológicos que haga frente, por igual, a las contraindicaciones…

Muuttoliikettä, politiikkaa ja joululauluja

2011

[Ensimmäinen kappale] American Social Science History Association järjesti syksyllä 2010 vuotuisen konferenssinsa teemalla Power and Politics – valtaa ja poliittisuutta. Tapahtuma järjestettiin nyt 35:ttä kertaa. Kansainvälinen ja useita tieteenaloja kattava konferenssi koostui järjestäjien mukaan yli 230 paneelista, jotka kaikki keskittyivät Chicagon keskustassa sijaitsevan Palmer House Hilton -hotellin hulppeisiin tiloihin. Suurin osanotto oli epäilemättä Yhdysvalloista ja Euroopasta, mutta myös Aasia ja Afrikka olivat hyvin edustettuina. Lyhyt matka joululauluja raikuviin ostoskeskuksiin ja museoihin oli keskustasijainnin suuri etu. Ilmapiiri tapahtumassa oli lämmin, sen sijaan konferens…