Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

Cher Weixia Chen; Michael Gilmore

doi:10.18584/iipj.2015.6.3.3

Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

International Indigenous Policy Journal ◽

10.18584/iipj.2015.6.3.3 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Cher Weixia Chen ◽

Michael Gilmore

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Communities ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

New Paradigm ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Policy Trend

This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes into consideration the past, the present, and the future; and values “special” Indigenous elements that are indispensable to the diversity of our universe. It aims at protecting Indigenous resources holistically and more effectively.

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Legacy

How to Be Childless ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190918620.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 169-190

Author(s):

Rachel Chrastil

Keyword(s):

Life Stories ◽

Future Generations ◽

Family Tree ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

The Past ◽

The Family ◽

The Future ◽

Necessary Connections

What happens to our stuff when we die? How might we reimagine the family tree? Childlessness raises, among others, questions about legacy, inheritance, our relationship with future generations, our ability to shape the future, and the narratives we tell about the past and the future. The author examines several life stories to help readers begin to envision childlessness within a new paradigm of meaning. This chapter encourages readers to consider new metaphors for how they think about childlessness. It ends with considerations about the deep and necessary connections between the childless and the childful within the quest for human flourishing.

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Sense Theory. Sense Space

10.31219/osf.io/ay5k6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Egger L. Mielberg

Keyword(s):

New Paradigm ◽

Life Event ◽

The Past ◽

Heterogeneous Objects ◽

The Future ◽

Massive Number ◽

Birthday Celebration ◽

Physical Phenomena

A purely sense-to-sense connection between two arbitrary objectswould allow trillions of other objects to be associated with eachother by their specific sense.The main benefit of the sense connection is still lost if an object ofcertain nature does not still have a property's association to even asingle another object (-s).We propose a new paradigm of a mathematical space that issense-centered and AI-focused in its nature. One of the mainpurposes of this space are to create an informational sphere for aa massive number of heterogeneous objects by the existed senserelationship between them.It may be extremely useful if a life event (behavior) in the future ofone person, say buying a car could be described by another lifeevent (behavior) in the past of another person, say the baby'sa birthday celebration or the properties of physical phenomena in thepast will trigger some actions in the future.

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Sekularingseringstesen i religionssociologien

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift ◽

10.7146/rt.v0i35.2642 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Lene Kühle

Keyword(s):

Social Reality ◽

Sociology Of Religion ◽

Main Argument ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Sociological Study ◽

Political Sphere ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Dominant Paradigm

Secularization has been á major issue in sociological debates on religion. Recent developments in theory as well as in social reality seems to indicate that the future for the seularization thesis will not be as glorious as the past. The main argument in this article is that the secularization thesis, which can more properly be understood as a paradigm in the Kuhnian sense, is no longer a very useful frame for the sociological study of religion. This argument is supported by three examples from the contemporay political sphere, where the description in terms of "secularization" seems to lead to ambiguous conclusions. The article gives a brief presentation of two candidates for a new paradigm and discusses the requirements that the new paradigm is expected to meet. Whether any of these paradigms or perhaps a completely different one is going to assume the position as the dominant paradigm in the sociology of religion is still to be seen.

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Wavering in Delight

American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056043.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 56-76

Author(s):

Myrto Drizou

Keyword(s):

Turn Of The Century ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

The Novel ◽

New Paradigm ◽

The Past ◽

Models Of Teaching ◽

The Future ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Sister Carrie

In this chapter, Drizou argues that Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie (1900) questions the rationalization of modern progress by depicting the turn of the century as a moment that wavers between the urgent incalculability of the future and the conventional knowledge of the past, embodied in the two main plotlines of the novel: Carrie’s hasty anticipation of the future and Hurstwood’s steady retreat to the past. For many scholars, the intersecting plotlines of Sister Carrie suggest the contrasting narratives of progress and decline that confirm the irreversibility of fate in turn-of-the-century naturalist texts. Dreiser complicates the teleology of this model, however, by dramatizing the temporal unpredictability of evolutionary tropes (change, adaptability, and chance) to illustrate wavering as a mode that allows his characters to measure their options and remain open to the future. This wavering mode furnishes a new paradigm of thinking about the fin de siècle as an incalculably open jangle that welcomes (and embodies) the resistance to rationalized discourses of modernity. In this sense, Dreiser’s novel prompts us to question and rethink our contemporary processes of rationalization, such as the standardization of knowledge through period-based models of teaching and temporally restrictive paradigms of scholarship.

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Decolonizing Healing Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing

10.1007/978-3-030-79622-8_8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 121-134

Author(s):

Miranda Field

Keyword(s):

Healing Process ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Spiritual Healing ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

The Past ◽

Healing Journey ◽

Strength Based ◽

The Future ◽

Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽

Physical Recovery

AbstractThe field of psychology is embarking on a process to interrupt the historical, colonial cycle of harm and beginning to work with and alongside Indigenous communities to understand the healing journey. From an Indigenous lens, healing incorporates more than the physical recovery; physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing exists through learning, which occurs along the healing journey. This healing journey has no definite beginning or end, and as we begin to move away from pathologizing healing to a strength-based healing process, the focus shifts to relationships—relationships with self, community, more-than-human, and the land. This chapter proposes that to decolonize Western healing processes, as a field, we must acknowledge the coexistence of learning during the healing journey. Building healing capacity through learning elucidates the understanding of the past, the needs of the present, and lays foundations for the future to work towards restoring integrity and prompting balanced care.

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