Download or read book Racionalidad ambiental y di logo de saberes written by Enrique Leff and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racionalidad ambiental written by Enrique Leff and published by Siglo XXI Editores México. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hace ya muchos años que la humanidad camina al borde del precipicio ambiental. La sobreexplotación del planeta y el continuo daño que le infligen las sociedades modernas expresan una forma, utilitaria y voraz, de concebir la naturaleza y de producir conocimiento sobre ella. Esta relación es fruto de una racionalidad positivista en la que se amalgaman ciencia y mercado, dislocando el funcionamiento de la biosfera. Enrique Leff emprende aquí una defensa epistemológica de la vida y un profundo análisis —con cimientos marxistas— de los arreglos políticos y sociales que han permitido la degradación de los ecosistemas e implantado una visión economista del mundo natural. A caballo entre el abordaje filosófico, sociológico, económico y antropológico, en diálogo lo mismo con Marx, Bookchin, Baudrillard, Georgescu-Roegen, Weber y Habermas que con Levinas y Bataille, Racionalidad ambiental analiza críticamente problemas tan diversos como la teoría objetiva del valor aplicada a la naturaleza, el monismo ontológico, las trampas de la geopolítica del desarrollo sostenible, el dilema de la ley de la entropía y la productividad neguentrópica, la compleja interacción de la cultura y la naturaleza, y presenta ejemplos de movimientos indígenas y campesinos que han plantado cara a la concepción hegemónica del medio ambiente. La nueva edición de este auténtico clásico de la ecología política ofrece, en esencia, el mismo caudal de conceptos, discusiones y perspectivas teóricas, pero con una atenta revisión de la escritura, con el ánimo de "quitar pequeñas piedras y apar pequeños baches del camino discursivo que pudieran distraer al lector". Leff ha logrado que fluyan más claramente los argumentos que dan consistencia a los conceptos, las tesis y los debates plasmados en estas páginas, renovando así los impulsos vitales que dieron origen a su libro fundacional.
Download or read book El di logo de saberes y la educac on ambiental written by Olga María Bermúdez Guerrero and published by Univ. Nacional de Colombia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saber ambiental written by Enrique Leff and published by Siglo XXI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La empresa tradicional ha privilegiado a los propietarios en su gestión, dejando a un lado los demás participantes e interesados en sus acciones, en el marco de la racionalidad económica que sólo promueve el crecimiento y la rentabilidad, atentando contra el desarrollo sustentable que requiere la continuidad de la vida en la tierra. Un cambio de actitud personal y empresarial que subsane los problemas sociales y ambientales, implica la instauración de una ética para la sustentabilidad, que sea parte de una racionalidad ambiental opuesta a los modelos heredados de la modernidad y considerará los elementos de la teoría de la complejidad para la construcción de una sociedad más justa que satisfaga los anhelos de felicidad de la humanidad. Este ensayo intenta conexiones entre conceptos éticos y empresariales con la pretensión de dar aportes para la construcción de una racionalidad ambiental, paradigma que nos dará los elementos teóricos para arribar a una sociedad mejor que aquella legada por la historia.
Download or read book Discursos sustentables written by Enrique Leff and published by Siglo XXI Editores México. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro recoge un conjunto de textos elaborados a partir de discursos que nacieron de la palabra arrojada ante un público en debates ambientales recientes, y que desde el eco del diálogo, tomaron la forma escrita que ha quedado inscrita en este volumen. Son discursos compartidos, convividos; voces latentes que esperan una respuesta; palabras que palpitan en el corazón de la Tierra. Estos discursos están hechos de palabras: palabras que crean nuevos significados teóricos y nuevos sentidos existenciales; palabras que se incorporan en nuevos saberes, que encarnan en nuevas identidades, que se decantan en nuevos lenguajes para habitar el mundo y soñar otros mundos posibles; palabras que arraigan en la tierra para fertilizar nuevos territorios; palabras que se filtran por la corteza de la Tierra hasta tocar la roca viva de la vida, que cicatrizan en la piel del mundo, que abren nuevos senderos de la historia. Son discursos que se entrelazan en un diálogo de saberes, que convocan a nuevos encuentros para bordar un nuevo tejido social; discursos armados de palabras que se vuelven verbo y acción: movimiento transformador; palabras que forjan nuevas formas de ser en el mundo, que son sustento de la vida humana en el planeta, y que orientan la construcción de un futuro sustentable.
Download or read book Environmental and Ecological Sustainability Through Indigenous Traditions written by Binay Kumar Pattnaik and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty written by Marc Edelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad banner. Despite its large and growing popularity, the history, theoretical foundations, and political program of food sovereignty have only occasionally received in-depth analysis and critical scrutiny. This collection brings together both longstanding scholars in critical agrarian studies, such as Philip McMichael, Bina Agarwal, Henry Bernstein, Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, and Marc Edelman, as well as a dynamic roster of early- and mid-career researchers. The ultimate aim is to advance this important frontier of research and organizing, and put food sovereignty on stronger footing as a mobilizing frame, a policy objective, and a plan of action for the human future. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Download or read book La complejidad ambiental written by and published by Siglo XXI. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complejidad ambiental; complejidad emergente; complejidad reflexiva; complejización del ser, del conocimiento, del tiempo de las identidades; desconocimiento del conocimiento; ciencia posnormal; reapropiación del saber; diálogo de saberes; juegos de lenguaje; logos hermenéutico; acción interpretativa; comprensión del ambiente; producción de sentidos; aprendizajes significativos; constitución plural de sujetos; construcción de ciudadanía; configuración de identidades híbridas; utopía, diferencia, diversidad, alteridad, otredad, infinito, praxis proyectual y construcción de virtualidades; saber intuitivo, analógico, heurístico; investigación participativa; educación popular ambiental; autogestión comunitaria; pedagogía crítica; saber emancipado; aprendizajes comunitarios; saberes indígenas; estrategias identitarias; sembrar saberes; cultivar sentidos; aprender a ser; saber enseñarse... Palabras claves, juegos de lenguaje y estrategias conceptuales que, frente al proyecto unitario de la ciencia moderna y al poder del saber institucionalizado, abren un haz de luz del conocimiento a la diversidad del saber; trazan el tra-yecto de un pro-yecto para aprender a aprender la complejidad ambiental.
Download or read book Rethinking Latin American Social Movements written by Richard Stahler-Sholk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Leading scholars examine a variety of cases that highlight significant shifts in the region. First is the breakdown of the Washington Consensus and the global economic crisis since 2008, accompanied by the rise of new paradigms such as buen vivir (living well). Second are transformations in internal movement dynamics and strategies, especially the growth of horizontalism (horizontalidad), which emphasizes non-hierarchical relations within society rather than directly tackling state power. Third are new dynamics of resistance and repression as movements interact with the “pink tide” rise of left-of-center governments in the region. Exploring outcomes and future directions, the contributors consider the variations between movements arising from immediate circumstances (such as Oaxaca’s 2006 uprising and Brazil’s 2013 bus fare protests) and longer-lasting movements (Vía Campesina, Brazil’s MST, and Mexico’s Zapatistas). Assessing both the continuities in social movement dynamics and important new tendencies, this book will be essential reading for all students of Latin American politics and society. Contributions by: Marc Becker, George Ciccariello-Maher, Kwame Dixon, Fran Espinoza, Daniela Issa, Nathalie Lebon, Maurice Rafael Magaña, María Elena Martinez-Torres, Sara C. Motta, Leonidas Oikonomakis, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Peter M. Rosset, Marina Sitrin, Rose J. Spalding, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Alicia Swords, Harry E. Vanden, and Raúl Zibechi
Download or read book Food Sovereignty Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity written by Michel. P. Pimbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. ‘Food sovereignty’ is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology, biocultural diversity, equity, social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities, policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity, decentralisation, dynamic adaptation and democracy. The authors critically explore the changes in organizations, research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional, pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food, environment and society. Chapters 1 and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Download or read book International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research written by Paul Smeyers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 1645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’ research. Interpretation extends from the very framing of the research task, through the sources which constitute the data, the process of their recording, representation and analysis, to the way in which the research is finally or provisionally presented. The thesis of the handbook is that interpretation cuts across the fields (both philosophically, organizationally and methodologically). By covering a comprehensive range of research approaches and methodologies, the handbook gives (early career) researchers what they need to know in order to decide what particular methods can offer for various educational research contexts/fields. An extensive overview includes concrete examples of different kinds of research (not limited for example to ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ examples as present in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, but including as well what in the German Continental tradition is labelled ‘pädagogisch’, examples from child rearing and other contexts of non-formal education) with full description and explanation of why these were chosen in particular circumstances and reflection on the wisdom or otherwise of the choice – combined in each case with consideration of the role of interpretation in the process. The handbook includes examples of a large number of methods traditionally classified as qualitative, interpretive and quantitative used across the area of the study of education. Examples are drawn from across the globe, thus exemplifying the different ‘opportunities and constraints’ that educational research has to confront in different societies.
Download or read book Environmental Justice written by Brendan Coolsaet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of environmental justice, one of the most dynamic fields in environmental politics scholarship. The rapidly growing body of research in this area has brought about a proliferation of approaches; as such, the breadth and depth of the field can sometimes be a barrier for aspiring environmental justice students and scholars. This book therefore is unique for its accessible style and innovative approach to exploring environmental justice. Written by leading international experts from a variety of professional, geographic, ethnic, and disciplinary backgrounds, its chapters combine authoritative commentary with real-life cases. Organised into four parts—approaches, issues, actors and future directions—the chapters help the reader to understand the foundations of the field, including the principal concepts, debates, and historical milestones. This volume also features sections with learning outcomes, follow-up questions, references for further reading and vivid photographs to make it a useful teaching and learning tool. Environmental Justice: Key Issues is the ideal toolkit for junior researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and anyone in need of a comprehensive introductory textbook on environmental justice.
Download or read book Ethnobotany of Mexico written by Rafael Lira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted studies on ethnobotany and domestication of plants in the region. Such a convocation will produce an interesting discussion about future investigation and conservation of regional human cultures, genetic resources, and cultural and ecological processes that are critical for global sustainability.
Download or read book Socio ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas written by Alfredo Ortega-Rubio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interactions of local inhabitants and environmental systems in the Protected Natural Areas of Mexico. Its goal is to help understand how social groups contextualize ecological knowledge, how human activities contribute to modifying the environmental matrix, how cultural and economic aspects influence the use, management and conservation of their ecological environment, and how social phenomena are to be viewed against the backdrop of ecological knowledge. The book reviews the epistemological and historical bases of the socio-ecological relationship, and addresses the evolution of human-natural systems. From a methodological standpoint, it assesses the tools required for the integration of “human” and “natural” dimensions in the management of the environmental matrix. Further, in the case studies section, it reviews valuable recent experiences concerning the retro-interactions of local inhabitants with their environmental matrix. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers and professionals all over the world, especially those working in Latin American countries.
Download or read book Biosystems Engineering Biofactories for Food Production in the Century XXI written by Ramon Guevara-Gonzalez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new food production systems (for plants and animals) involving agrochemicals that increase in a controlled manner the bioactives content, under greenhouse conditions. Moreover, conception and design of new instrumentation for precision agriculture and aquiculture contributing in food production is also highlighted in this book.
Download or read book Traditionalism and Modernity written by Dr. A.H.M Zehadul Karim and published by Partridge Singapore. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has outlined many aspects of traditionalism and modernity, although the topics here are divergent; the consistent part of it is that all of the authors mostly come from the same disciplines of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The main concern is to find out the socio-cultural changes that have occurred due to modernization and development. From that perspective, the book is very useful to understand Sociology and Social Anthropology from diversities based on traditionalism and modernity. It contains eleven articles contributed by a few renowned sociologists and social anthropologists from a number of countries around the world, focusing on diversified issues on traditionalism and modernity. The papers are written on the basis of each author's expertise in their respective field which are compiled to make them a suitable document in the field of Sociology and Social Anthropology. The book seems to be very useful for the students seeking knowledge on traditionalism and modernity having based in Sociology and Social Anthropology. The concepts of traditionalism and modernity are very important and are related issues in Sociology and Social Anthropology that many theoretical discussions have been carried out in these areas and several theoretical paradigms have been conceptualized in this regard which have been highlighted in the book in the form of descriptive-analytic discussion.
Download or read book Educational Response Inclusion and Empowerment for SDGs in Emerging Economies written by Mustafa Öztürk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes cases from emerging economies in relation to the global endeavor to promote the vision of sustainable development in all forms of education. It aims to discuss the significance of hearing local voices and understanding local discourse regarding strategies for action for change, and the role of educational systems as a means to communicate, promote and educate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this book, emerging economies are defined as newly industrialized countries that have not yet reached developed status, but have, in a macro-economic sense, outpaced their developing counterparts. In this context, the book highlights how education in emerging economies could extend conventional economic methods to sustainability issues, or depart from money-based calculations and business-dominated values to promotion of real-life considerations and ethical, environmental and humanistic values. With the help of this volume, readers will have a chance to look at educational response, inclusion and empowerment for SDGs in countries with emerging economies, and to grasp the synthesis of Education for Sustainable Development/Global Citizenship Education (ESD/GCE) within the overall national educational systems. This volume focuses on early childhood through upper secondary education.
