Extreme Climatic Upheaval, Emergency Resource Adaptation, and the Emergence of Folkloric Belief: Geomythic Origin of Sea Serpents from Animals Becoming Entangled in Fishing Gear During New England’s Nineteenth-Century Social-Ecological Crisis

Human Ecology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-513
Author(s):  
Robert L. France
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Resource Adaptation ◽  
Emergency Resource

Historical Crucifixion: A Liberationist Response to Deep Incarnation

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 892-912
Author(s):  
Michael E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cross

In light of the social-ecological crisis facing Puerto Rico, this article offers a response to deep incarnation theologies. Though it notes that deep incarnation offers a helpful account of divine presence and solidarity with all suffering creatures, the essay draws from liberationist theologians to argue that equating the cross with evolutionary death obscures the sinful causes of crucifixion. Ultimately, the essay insists that the notion of deep incarnation that addresses evolutionary suffering must be linked to a similarly “deep” notion of crucifixion rooted in historical reality.

scholarly journals Discourses of sustainability and imperial modes of food provision: agri-food-businesses and consumers in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Hirth ◽  
Theresa Bürstmayr ◽  
Anke Strüver
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Food System ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Consumer Sovereignty ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Food Provision ◽  
And Control

AbstractIt is widely accepted that overcoming the social-ecological crises we face requires major changes to the food system. However, opinions diverge on the question whether those ‘great efforts’ towards sustainability require systemic changes or merely systematic ones. Drawing upon Brand and Wissen’s concept of “imperial modes of living” (Rev Int Polit Econ 20:687–711, 2013; The imperial mode of living: everyday life and the ecological crisis of capitalism, Verso, London/New York, 2021), we ask whether the lively debates about sustainability and ‘ethical’ consumption among producers and consumers in Germany are far reaching enough to sufficiently reduce the imperial weight on the environment and other human and nonhuman animals. By combining discourse analysis of agri-food businesses’ sustainability reports with narrative consumer interviews, we examine understandings of sustainability in discourses concerning responsible food provision and shed light on how those discourses are inscribed in consumers’ everyday food practices. We adopt Ehgartner’s discursive frames of ‘consumer sovereignty’, ‘economic rationality’, and ‘stewardship’ to illustrate our findings, and add a fourth one of ‘legitimacy’. Constituting the conditions under which food-related themes become sustainability issues, these frames help businesses to (1) individualise the responsibility to enact changes, (2) tie efforts towards sustainability to financial profits, (3) subject people and nature to the combination of care and control, and (4) convey legitimacy through scientific authority. We discuss how these frames, mirrored in some consumer narratives, work to sideline deeper engagement with ecological sustainability and social justice, and how they brush aside the desires of some ostensibly ‘sovereign’ consumers to overcome imperial modes of food provision through much more far reaching, systemic changes. Finally, we reflect on possible paths towards a de-imperialised food system.

scholarly journals Transformative Journalisms: How the ecological crisis is transforming journalism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brüggemann ◽  
Jannis Frech ◽  
Torsten Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Independent Observer ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Advocacy Journalism ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Ways Of Life

Growing awareness of global ecological crises has provoked a set of new practices in journalism that we suggest labelling transformative journalisms. The term encompasses a diversity of new role conceptions and practices that converge around an explicit and transparent commitment to contribute to the social-ecological transformation of societies by doing journalism. It is thus a form of advocacy journalism that is special in being dedicated to the most common of common goods, preserving the eco-systems and natural resources of the planet. Transformative journalism challenges some aspects of objectivity, such as the idea of the neutral, distanced observer. Instead, it emphasizes the elements of relevant and factually correct coverage as well as values such as transparency about values and moderating the debates that enable society to develop more sustainable ways of life. While the tension between the poles of being a critical, independent observer and sharing a mission of ecological transformation is the source of criticism by proponents of more traditional role conceptions, we also see this tension as a productive source for creativity, complementing traditional journalism with new forms of content, production, and interactions audiences as well as increased awareness of the ecological footprint of doing journalism.

scholarly journals Small-scale manjuba fishery around Cardoso Island State Park, SP, Brazil

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Cardoso ◽  
N. Nordi
Keyword(s):  
Fishery Management ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Management Technique ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Island State

This work was carried out in the Enseada da Baleia and Vila Rápida communities. Data was provided by the Co-Management Committee of the Cardoso Island State Park (PEIC) on manjuba fishery management, technique and strategies used by the fishermen, as well as locally accumulated knowledge. Based on the results, social, ecological, and economic aspects of this type of fishing were analyzed. The importance of the accumulated knowledge and experience of this community, as well as the limitations imposed by local fishing gear, was concluded to be essential in conserving manjuba fishery conditions in the area. Industrial fishing, relevant state legislation, and market conditions were found to be the main obstacles to local fishery. Various proposals are suggested for manjuba fishery management, with emphasis on the need for fishing community participation in whatever measures are ultimately implemented.

The Transformation of Pastoralism in Buryatia: The Aginsky Steppe Example

Inner Asia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Nikolay n. Kradin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Sheep And Goats ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Herd Structure ◽  
Pastoral Economy

AbstractThis article deals with the structure of the pastoral economy of East Trans–Baikalian Buryats (Aginsky region). The herd structure used to include the five basic species of domestic animals of Eurasia: sheep, cattle, horses and, more rarely, goats and camels. A horse was of the utmost economic and status significance. However, the quantity of sheep and goats was larger. The pastoral groups owned the land and the nomads migrated with their herds along their traditional seasonal routes. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the influence of the Russian economy on the Buryat nomadic economy began to increase. In the USSR, these processes were more intensive. A complete sedenterisation of Buryat society took place. Agriculture was developed and nearly one-quarter of the pastures were used as arable lands. The pastoral economy changed from subsistence to one that was guided by the market. Since wool and meat were valuable commodities new breeds of sheep were raised, and the number of sheep increased greatly thereby giving rise to degradation of pastures. The ecological crisis did not develop on a large scale only because political (collapse of the USSR) and economic crises were ahead of it. As a result, the cattle-breeding and livestock economies of the Aginsky Buryats have fallen into decay. At present, although a crisis situation has been held back, progress is not observed.

scholarly journals Towards a Linking Activist Pedagogy: Teacher Activism for Social-Ecological Justice

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Chien (Jade) Ho
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Ecological Justice ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Single Construct ◽  
Justice Practice

The world is currently in the midst of a social-ecological crisis. We cannot ignore that the primary cause of this change in our planet's ecological balance and the increase in social injustices is our heavy dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels and a capitalist economic system, which encourages exploitation of both human and more than human resources with no regard for the consequences. In such a reality, it is alarming that education treats knowledge as disconnected fragments and that environmental and social issues are often addressed separately in education. In order to live in environmentally healthy and socially just communities, we need ways of thinking and teaching that integrate rather than fragment issues. There is a need to recognize that the ecological crisis is a “cultural crisis”. With the need for such an approach in mind, Morgan Gardner (2005) formulated the term “linking activism” to describe one's “blended social-ecological justice practice” when “being positioned in a single construct” (p.3). I extend this into a consideration of environmental and social-justice educators as agents of change whose daily activism works to change the current cultural paradigm and bring social-ecological order and harmony. This paper will argue for the importance of engaging in linking activism in education by critically examining the mainstream environmental educational field in order to critique its paradigm that is imprinted by the current dominant culture, which in turn perpetuates social-ecological oppression.

scholarly journals A Twitter-Lived Red Tide Crisis on Chiloé Island, Chile: What Can Be Obtained for Social-Ecological Research through Social Media Analysis?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8506
Author(s):  
Aldo Mascareño ◽  
Pablo A. Henríquez ◽  
Marco Billi ◽  
Gonzalo A. Ruz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Red Tide ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Twitter Data

Considering traditional research on social-ecological crises, new social media analysis, particularly Twitter data, contributes with supplementary exploration techniques. In this article, we argue that a social media approach to social-ecological crises can offer an actor-centered meaningful perspective on social facts, a depiction of the general dynamics of meaning making that takes place among actors, and a systemic view of actors’ communication before, during and after the crisis. On the basis of a multi-technique approach to Twitter data (TF-IDF, hierarchical clustering, egocentric networks and principal component analysis) applied to a red tide crisis on Chiloé Island, Chile, in 2016, the most significant red tide in South America ever, we offer a view on the boundaries and dynamics of meaning making in a social-ecological crisis. We conclude that this dynamics shows a permanent reflexive work on elucidating the causes and effects of the crisis that develops according to actors’ commitments, the sequence of events, and political conveniences. In this vein, social media analysis does not replace good qualitative research, it rather opens up supplementary possibilities for capturing meanings from the past that cannot be retrieved otherwise. This is particularly relevant for studying social-ecological crises and supporting collective learning processes that point towards increased resilience capacities and more sustainable trajectories in affected communities.

scholarly journals Learning from social–ecological crisis for legal resilience building: multi-scale dynamics in the coffee rust epidemic

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Libert Amico ◽  
Claudia Ituarte-Lima ◽  
Thomas Elmqvist
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Coffee Rust ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Social Ecological
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