Dialogues All the Way Down

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Land Ethic ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
The Way

Aldo Leopold's notion of the land ethic remains one of the clearest articulations of culture as the driver of ecological sustainability. Noting that ecological field sciences have long relied on communication with members of host communities, this chapter argues that what is needed is reflexive participation in the forms of communication that constitute and renew places. Using examples of speech genres drawn from story-dominated conversations among participants in a community-based science monitoring project, this chapter shows that conversational genres are interactional routines that function in multiple ways. Lending ourselves to such interactional routines, we consent to our initiation into worlds in common for which we may now co-exist, often well beyond the duration of conversations that are anything but beside the point.

scholarly journals Why Teach Environmental Ethics? Because We Already Do

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Christine Benton ◽  
Raymond Benton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Land Ethic ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn this paper we argue for the importance of the formal teaching of environmental ethics. This is, we argue, both because environmental ethics is needed to respond to the environmental issues generated by the neoliberal movement in politics and economics, and because a form of environmental ethics is implicit, but unexamined, in that which is currently taught. We maintain that students need to become aware of the latent ethical dimension in what they are taught. To help them, we think that they need to understand how models and metaphors structure and impact their worldviews. We describe how a simple in-class exercise encourages students to experience the way metaphors organize feelings, courses of action, and cognitive understandings. This is then intellectualized by way of Clifford Geertz's concept of culture and his model for the analysis of sacred symbols. From there we present a brief interpretation of modern economics as the embodiment of the dominant modern ethos. This leads into a consideration of ecology as a science, and to the environmental ethic embodied in Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic." We close with a personal experience that highlights how environmental teaching can make students aware of the presence of an implicit, but unexamined, environmental ethic.

The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-102
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New World ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
World Order ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
New World Order ◽  
System P ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Way

This chapter develops an eleventh “plague” onto Jacques Derrida's list of ten plagues of the New World Order in his Specters of Marx: the growing global climate crisis. Forging an amalgam from Derrida and Heidegger, it shows that the eleventh plague was not just “one more plague” but was at the heart of the first ten, or at least was intimately implied or caught up in them. In the most summary form, this would be to show that questions of violence, law, and social justice are inseparable from ecological sustainability. A similar move would demonstrate that another candidate for the eleventh plague—the animal holocaust—is closely connected both with the first ten plagues and ecological sustainability, perhaps serving as a bridge of sorts. Derrida's remarks about the animal holocaust, and about human suffering and misery, are set in the context of people's denial, blindness, and refusal to acknowledge these phenomena, and the way that human suffering especially represents the contradiction, the hidden waste, produced by an ever more efficiently functioning system.

Competing Discourses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kátia da Costa Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Social Policies ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
The Way

The chapter focuses on the way museums, historical areas, and iconic architecture become a key asset in the promotion of an urban identity and branding. The chapter examines the various facets of the Wonder Port project and its consequence for local residents. It studies more specifically the key role played by art in the production of conflicting and sometimes contradictory spatial imaginaries. The chapter shows the tensions between Rio Art Museum’s architecture and exhibits and community-based social and cultural projects such as Morrinho (Little Hill) and the Inside Out Morro da Providência project. It illustrates how top-down market-oriented social policies of displacement of long-time residents are put into question by favela-based cultural producers.

Exploitation of Health on Instagram

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-185
Author(s):  
Michael G Blight
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Data Points ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the exploitative nature of Instagram as a community-based platform. Individual users build, maintain, and participate in communities as a way to connect with experiences and insights that resonate with them. Because users are motivated by different gratifications and are met with social support along the way, brands can use influencers to exploit the community-based practices (i.e., liking, sharing, and curating content) to access a variety of data points from users. Ultimately, users' data is routinely at risk as a byproduct of this subversive use of the platform.

Remaking Civic Formation: towards a learning citizen?

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Seddon
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Liberal Reform ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
The Way

This paper uses three examples of educational innovation emerging in the contemporary context of market-liberal reform as a focus for exploring the patterns and possibilities of civic formation. The first part of the paper contextualises contemporary civic formation within the long historic struggle between capitalism and democracy, highlighting the way citizen learning is being reconfigured as markets and state are mediated by community interests. The last section attempts to draw out the key features of this community-based citizen learning and its implications for citizen learning and action. This discussion provides a basis for clarifying the kind of civic and citizenship education that is needed to take community-based learning beyond localism towards formal civic engagement that can sustain and protect democracy. The idea of a learning citizen is suggested as a way of conceptualising and acknowledging the contradictions within this citizenship agenda that holds the imperatives of lifelong learning in tension with the imperatives of educating citizen.

Remembering as Social Practice

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Middleton ◽  
Helen L. Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Story Work ◽  
Provision Of Care ◽  
Subjective Representation ◽  
The Way

This work represents the development of two lines of interest, one in the study of social practices of remembering and the other concerning issues of identity in the care of people with profound learning difficulties. We examine of the way life story work is used as a resource in providing for continuities in the experience of people with profound learning difficulties when moved from hospital to community based care. Our concern is the way carers attend to issues of identity in their relationships with people who are unable to speak on their own behalf. We discuss how identities are accomplished as part of the social practice of remembering in the construction of life story books designed to resource continuities of identities across changes in the provision of care. Identities are not examined in terms of some subjective representation of coherence across time and space. We examine the way social organisation of remembering in life story work makes visible identities in terms of continuities of participation in the social practices that make up the conditions of living of the recipients of care and the working practices of those who provide it.

Research, Writing, Editorial Reviewing, and Publishing as Social Justice Issues: The Effects of Stigma

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-303
Author(s):  
Lee A. Crandall ◽  
Sharon M. Holder
Keyword(s):  
Social Stigma ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
The Way

People with disabilities face problems, not only because of their specific impairments but because of social stigma. This article focuses on stigma as it relates to a broad range of physical, social, and behavioral characteristics, and on the effect of stigma on academic research. Effects examined here include decisions regarding the ways in which research questions are defined, what research is funded and how it is funded, the ways in which research is conducted (e.g., the use of community-based participatory research versus traditional approaches), the way in which publication decisions are made, and the way in which research is received by professional colleagues and the public.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN MODEL PENANGGULANGAN PENYALAHGUNAAN NARKOBA

Sosio Informa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmadi Jayaputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Drug Addict ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Way

The Implementation of Drug Abuse Combating Model.Drug abuse that has influenced urban as ewwl as rural societies, could be seen from abuses, uses and the way they are. In jakarta, and in Tanah Abang district in particular, local community has developed a community-based social services for the drug addict. This modelseemstobe effective to prevent drug abuse problem. However as an element on social capital,networks that link members of the community was a new self-induced nitiative the model it self still need of socialization.Kata Kunci: Penyalahgunaan narkoba, posyanmas, model penanggulangan

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