Environmental Discourses in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy; Or, The Neoliberal Prometheus

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Discourses

Caste and Nature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukul Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Entity ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
Critical Challenge

Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.

scholarly journals Environmental Discourses and Rhetoric in the Conceptual Space of Architectural Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Traci Rose Rider
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Education ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Current State ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Potential Opportunity ◽  
Insight Into

This paper aims to investigate the current state and potential opportunity of strategic environmental discourses and rhetoric in architectural education. Because there is limited research completed on this specific focus, a grounded theory approach was used. In-depth interviews were held with twelve purposefully selected participants, each of whom are prevalently perceived as leaders in incorporating sustainability topics into architectural education. Through a cyclical coding process, larger themes about integrating environmental topics in formal architectural education emerged, with the importance of discourse and rhetoric as one of the primary sub-themes. Different discourses, emphasis on specific terminology, and the implications of each in the conceptual space of architectural educational are explored in the context of both program- and university-level structures. Breaking down the current environmental discourses in these specific contexts offers insight into opportunities to streamline the inclusion of sustainability themes in architectural education. This study concludes with possible avenues for further research regarding environmental discourse and rhetoric in architectural education, and suggestions for application in programs.

scholarly journals Latin America through the vision of environmental geopolitics. A little about the history of the issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-236
Author(s):  
Shinkarenko Alexander ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Current State ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

In this article, the author touches upon the formation of ecological geopolitics and the role of Latin America in it. The socio-political processes that are currently taking place in the region focus on environmental problems, as well as the possibility of reducing the intensity of extractivistic initiatives. The relevance of the environmental discourses and the costs generated with the rental model of the economy, is characteristic not only of Latin America, but also other regions of the world. Nevertheless, it is here we can observe the active work of antiextractive movements to form a contemporary environmental agenda and search for models that are alternative to the current state of the world.

Paradigms and Discourses

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Political System ◽  
International System ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Basic Concepts

Both paradigms and discourses are a type of inter-subjective understanding that condition individual action, and social outcomes, in the international system no less than elsewhere. They have no formal existence resembling that of organisations, constitutions, laws, and treaties. Yet paradigms and discourses can be none the less effective in coordinating the behaviour of large numbers of actors, and this is especially true in a political system as de-centralised as the international one, where formal sources of order are weak. It is impossible to understand international environmental law without getting to grips with the informal understandings that condition its creation and operation. This article explores basic concepts about paradigms and discourse, the transition from industrialism to environmentalism, and major environmental discourses including survivalism and its Promethean opposite, problem-solving discourses, sustainability, and green radicalism.

scholarly journals Individual solutions to collective problems: the paradoxical treatment of environmental issues on Mexican and French YouTubers' videos

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. A07
Author(s):  
Cecilia Lartigue ◽  
Guillaume Carbou ◽  
Muriel Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Country Specific

The impact of human activity on our planet is undeniable. However, this matter of fact is not fully understandable without analyzing the narratives through which people make sense of it. In this study, we aim to describe the narratives present in environmental discourses of Mexican and French YouTubers' videos. This corpus is intended to show how environmental issues are framed in the ever-growing discursive arena of entertainment and “influencing” streaming video. We set out to perform a cross-country comparison, with the purpose of contributing to the discussion of whether environmental discourse is country-specific or shared by various nations and, possibly, even global. Our study contributes to the understanding of the social construction of the environment via these discourses. Our main result points to a paradoxical treatment of environmental issues: the YouTubers of our sample represent them as collectively induced problems, but seem to mainly believe that individual-based solutions would resolve them. More broadly, our study suggests a tendency to the individualization and, therefore, the depoliticization of environmental issues as well as a globalization of the environmental discourses in YouTubers' videos.

1. Making Sense of Earth’s Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Wilderness Preservation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Nature Preservation

This chapter introduces the politics of the Earth, which has featured a large and ever-growing range of concerns, such as pollution, wilderness preservation, population growth, depletion of natural resources, climate change, biodiversity loss, and destabilization of the Earth system. It explains how the issues of Earth’s politics are interlaced with a range of questions about human livelihood, social justice, public attitudes, and proper relation to one other and other entities on the planet. It also discusses the consequences of discourses for politics and policies. The chapter clarifies how environmental issues like ecological limits, nature preservation, climate change, biodiversity, rainforest protection, environmental justice, and pollution are interconnected in all kinds of ways. It develops an environmental discourse analysis approach and shows how this approach will be applied in subsequent chapters, beginning with the positioning of environmental discourses in relation to the long dominant of discourse of industrialism.

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