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Pollution makes some leisure activities not only possible but pleasurable, an analysis known as "polluted leisure." In this paper, I extend this analysis with case examples of leisure participants adept use of polluted spaces. This adept use suggests that some leisure participants are "enskiled" at polluted leisure, possessing an embodied ecological familiarity with polluted spaces similar to a sailor who has a real knack for getting their sea legs. I present a case example of skateboarders building formal and informal skateparks on remediated Superfund sites and brownfields to further encourage this notion of polluted leisure enskilment. I then develop this notion of polluted leisure enskilment using Guattari's "ecosophy," a way of being most suitable for our Anthropocene age, claiming that skateboarding's esthetic enmeshed in polluted space offers a lived ecosophy. I conclude with potential extensions of this research in leisure studies, spatial justice, and skate studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research examines three thematic areas: philosophy, education, and ecology. It aims to be an interdisciplinary study, fundamentally based on the importance of the philosophy of environmental education and the practical implications that it can have. The problem of the contemporary hylomorphic production approach is first examined and then educational solutions are outlined towards a holistic understanding of the environment and of producing with it and not on it. By environment, in research, we also mean the human being because this is only one of his many appendages; therefore, as such, we try to relocate him to a non-privileged place (a place where he has been autonomously placed for centuries). It aims to be a militant study towards a different anti-anthropocene educational approach that finds its paradigm in the "Green Schools" of Bali, as we will see in the conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the possibilities of art workshops which have been conducted in Fukushima Prefecture that were affected by the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant accident on March 11, 2011. In coastal areas, many people experienced unexpected domestic migrations/relocations and unwelcome changes in their lives due to the disaster, moving multiple times and living in a state akin to drifting. In these workshops, participants recalled their history and context, created artwork as their navigational chart of life while rebraiding individual narratives with images, memories, and recollections that associated with objects as a part of hyperobjects of tsunami and nuclear disasters. For their complicated situation after the disaster, the workshops provided the opportunities to negotiate with objects as non-human things which have a longer lifespan than humans. It became the activities supporting peoples who lost the continuity of their lives with their hometown. These recovery and support programs through art workshops will be an ecosophic approach based on non-discursive, aesthetic, and ethic means to change the human-centric dominant paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While biomedical paradigms may pathologize depression, there is much critical potential in disclosing the disposition as a more complex, material, and ecological entanglement. In this performance, I draw upon a method of collage to demonstrate how "plot holes" between critical autoethnography, visual art, poetry, and speculative theorizing help reflect my ecology of depression. Theoretically cohering the performance is geotrauma, which traces affective dispositions across deep time and space, rendering depression a condition of the cosmos. Content warning: this writing contains discussion of suicide. Anyone in need of help can reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or SuicidePreventionLifeline.org. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: This research aims to analyze Virginia Woolf (1882-1942)’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) based on environmental narrative, egalitarian philosophy and ecosophy to criticize anthropocentrism. The theoretical framework is mainly based on Arne Naess’s philosophies of egalitarianism and ecosophy which show how Woolf, through environmental narratives, clarifies the significance of nature and environment. Naess believes that a systematic discipline in terms of philosophical view is essential to develop interconnectedness between humans and nature or ecological system. He assumes that self-realization is linked with ecological awareness, then knowing ecology or ecologism leads to ecosophy. In the novel, Orlando, as the main character, reaches a kind of ecological self-recognition and egalitarian tendency. When she is among gypsies, she is drawn to the eyecatching beauty of nature and she knows that how humans can be attached to nature without pay attention to their anthropocentric interest. The article finally indicates that how all living beings, including humans are respectful and humans are not unique species and must not spoil lands and nature to satisfy their own desires. Background of the Study: This study focuses on Orlando: A Biography and it is framed to investigate the novel by illustrating the environmental narrative through egalitarian philosophy and ecosophy. It also demonstrates that how humans seek the value of life, and their happiness and satisfaction. Virginia Woolf, as a British novelist, in Orlando ponders the various effects of time, from fifteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth century, on nature and environment. Woolf’s fictional character is subjectively a symbol of highlighting the egalitarian culture via environmental narratives. Woolf has utilized the natural world to portray the significance of its trouble created by humans. Therefore, she puts a lot of stress on nature, environment, and non-humans in her works. She can be regarded as a philosopher who has developed egalitarian culture designating respect for all the living beings and she struggles to show the interaction between humans and the earth that should be modified in a better way. Methodology: The present study applies the egalitarian philosophy and ecosophy which are categorized in the theory of ecocriticism. Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary study that concentrates on common grounds, relationships and affiliations exit between two different fields of study: ecology and literature. Arne Naess who is an eco-philosopher and ecocritic by turning to ecocriticism announces that the relationships between humans and nature can be possible by increasing ecological wisdom and awareness. Naess relies on biospherical egalitarianism that is to consider the environment as an entity that has its right to be safe. He believes that the rights of the environment are as important as human rights. The species’ equality is proposed by Naess. He comes to conclusions that all living beings must live on the planet earth without spoiling one another’s benefits and rights. As a result, this study illustrates how Naess as an ecocritic attempts to modify the interaction of humans, nature, and environment. Conclusion: Orlando is Woolf’s attempt to reveal how nature and environment have the same rights to be kept alive. Woolf uses environmental narrative to show the right place of humans in nature. She criticizes anthropocentrism and challenges the anthropocentric views through her narrative. She thinks that people need the ecological awareness to reach an egalitarian perspective not to hurt nature and environment any longer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the ecosophy of "diversity and harmony, interaction and co-existence", the present study analyzes the characteristics of the attitude system of news reports on the adventures of China's wandering elephants in China Daily to investigate whether the reports belong to ambivalent or beneficial discourse from the perspective of ecological discourse analysis. The findings show that judgement and appreciation resources are more frequently used than affect resources; negative resources are fewer than positive ones but some negative resources also have positive functions; more attention has been paid to human protection measures than to animals; besides, beneficial discourse accounts for the highest proportion, which shows China's concept of ecological civilization. Based on the above analysis, suggestions are proposed for news discourse in communicating China's ecological civilization: showing personal rather than general emotional experience in animal protection to express Chinese people's love and concern for animals, appreciating positive emotions and the mutual helping behaviour of animals to express ecological consciousness indirectly, and taking full advantage of the links between affect, judgement and appreciation to express the moral judgement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our current era of crisis and neo-fascist revanches (see Lawtoo 2019) is rife with desires-driven mimesis, and more specifically, mimetic resentment or conflictual copycat behaviour. Traditionally conceptualised in relation to ressentiment, mimetic resentment (see Nietzsche [1887]2006; Girard [1961]1965, [1977]1992, and [1978]1987) is seldom analysed as a somatechnical phenomenon that meshes the corporeal and the technological (Sullivan 2005; Pugliese and Stryker 2009; Sullivan and Murray 2011), involving pre-personal and affective micropolitics, as well as social and environmental macropolitical characteristics. This article therefore seeks to map out resentment's contemporary somatechnics by attending to its violence-engendering micropolitics in addition to the macrolevels of the permacrisis times it is said to be operating in. The burgeoning environmental crisis that is currently unfolding against the backdrop of these permacrisis times furthermore indicates that such a mapping exercise must consider both the micro- and macropolitical nuances of how zoē/bios classifications and resultant gaps between non/human actors are created and sustained. Finding such a nuanced eco-focused framework in Deleuzoguattarian philosophy (see Deleuze [1969]1990; Deleuze and Guattari [1980]2005; Guattari [1989]2000 and [1992]2002), as well as contemporary critical new materialist thought (see Cooper 2008; Braidotti 2013; Haraway 2016; and Yusoff 2018), we first examine these permacrisis times before presenting a critical cartography (Braidotti [1994]2011; Deleuze and Guattari [1980]2005) of the contours of mimetic resentment's violent micro- and macropolitical somatechnics, to then explore several eco-focused Deleuzoguattarian and critical new materialist pathways that could lead us out of the spiralling vortex of violence that characterises this time of planetary trouble. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The publication of Jungle Nama (2021) marks a new turn in Amitav Ghosh's poetics. The author moves from his own studies in environmental humanities to question the aesthetics of the novel and to reevaluate the vitalism of peasants' traditions, which he opposes to Western rationalism. With Jungle Nama the author turns to verse and myth to admonish and set an example of respect for the non-human. From an aesthetical viewpoint, Ghosh transposes the narrative from the traditional Bengali versions to the language and media of world literature and world arts. The result is what we call the Jungle Nama Project, where visual art, music, literature, philology, and drama come together to disrupt the epistemological dominance of the Western forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The climate crisis, migration and urbanization may appear as three separate crises, but under Sheller's paradigm of Mobility Justice, they become part of a coherent whole that should be tackled as a single, complex and interconnected predicament. This paper observes rhetorical strategies employed in texts about the climate crisis, about cycling advocacy and about the "climate lockdown" conspiracy theory, which developed in Oxford, UK, in 2023. The metaphors, deictic pronouns and identity categories used are the main discourse features analysed through a qualitative approach, showing how mobility-related issues are often discussed through spatial metaphors, while deictic pronouns play a central role in the creation of identities. The findings are employed to contribute to the beneficial reframing of mobility-related discourses, whether global or local, and to react to climate inaction. The overall aim of this approach is to reveal the links between discourses about the climate crisis on a global scale and those on a local, urban scale concerning urban mobility policies. The prism through which both global and local discourses are observed is that of space and access to mobility. The aim of this investigation is to identify new patterns of language that can help us finding "new stories to live by". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In August 2023, Japan began to discharge the first nuclear wastewater, bringing about serious damage to the Marine ecological environment, which has attracted considerable media attention internationally. Drawing on the transitivity in Systemic Functional Linguistics and influenced by the ecosophy principles of "diversity and harmony, interaction and coexistence", this study uses UAM Corpus Tool software to annotate and conduct ecological discourse analysis of the news reports on Japan discharging nuclear wastewater in China Daily. The results show that the action process represents the largest share (67.38%), and then the relational process (11.89%) and the communicative process (9.59%). The mental process takes up a smaller share (5.41%), while the existential process (1.8%) and the behavioral process (0.33%) have the smallest proportions. Through the analysis of the components of each annotated process, it is found that when the agent in the action process, the identified subject in the relational process, the communicator in the communicative process, and the sensor in the mental process are all Japan or the Japanese government, the discourse exhibits a negative ecological orientation. Conversely, when these components refer to other Asian countries, a positive ecological orientation is presented. The above research reveals the types of transitivity processes in news discourse and the ecological meanings represented by each process, disclosing the hazards of nuclear wastewater and providing insights for promoting the harmonious development between humans and nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Relationship between literature and ecology has a long tradition. Scholars and researchers have often carried out studies to explore ecological concerns of the writers in literary texts. Nature is the source of our life. However, the mindless exploitation of the Earth for unlimited human needs is indeed a great threat to the planet as a whole. Humans should not think that they are the only creatures to live and dominate other biotic and ecological systems. Sustainable development can only bring peace to the environment and the humans though industrialization and modernization are also essential for a better society. Ecocriticism as a mode of study interprets the literary texts to explore the visions embedded in them. It draws on theoretical insights and precision of ethics, ecosophy, environmentalism, Anthropocene, Apocalypse, Deep ecology, and posthumanism for a worthwhile analysis and interpretation of literary texts. This paper is an effort to discuss a historical and conceptual understanding of ecocriticism, and how it can be a useful method of study of texts representing environmental issues. Ecocriticism is a tool for environmental discussion, designed to analyse the text's orientation both to the world it imagines and to the world in which it takes shape. As far as the question of environment and sustainability is concerned, literature raises a lot of issues to determine the ecological problems of our society due to the faults in our knowledge systems and the prevalent traditions. In this paper, we have referred to the ideas and arguments of William Rueckert, Greg Garrard, Rachel Carson, Stewart Lee Udall, Lawrence Buell, Donald Worster, Ursula K. Heise, Paul Crutzen, Arne Naess, Barry Commoner, Aldo Leopold Rosi Braidotti, Cary Wolfe, Jonathan Bate, Neil Carter, Cheryll Glotfelty, Paul W. Taylor and so on to work out a conceptual framework for fruitful interpretation of literary texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The metaverse is a burgeoning technological domain, ranging from data-driven algorithms to advanced artificial intelligence. Immersive virtual reality does not reflect the ecological crisis in fictional worlds through interactivity. In the footsteps of Félix Guattari, this article elaborates on ecological thinking in three categories, each of which reflects the ecological risk and potential positive improvement of the metaverse. In the first category, environmental ecology, the article argues that the technological infrastructure of the metaverse is intensely power-consuming and materialises data and information fluxes. Moreover, the structure of digitised societies promotes intangible production. In the second category, social ecology, it argues that cognitive capitalism further stimulates consumerism because of big data classification and user-targeted algorithms and further amplifies climate change due to the empowered logistics industry. Additionally, capitalism causes continuous competence in the culture industry, leading to a high elimination rate of device production and low efficiency of intellectual labour. In the last category, mental ecology, the article argues that by precisely targeting users, the attention economy of the metaverse empowers individuals who are eager to pursue valorisation. These digital dwellers overlook ecological issues and the foundations of their virtual lives. In the posthumanist approach, humans are flattened by capitalism and become surplus value as natural forces. Humans' minds are alienated from the idea that nature and humans coexist. Instead, the metaverse is directed toward individual power that immerses itself in a capital-driven network of information technology. This article proposes the merit of forming a nature-culture continuum to promote an ecological ideology in the metaverse. On the one hand, the nature-culture continuum of the metaverse spreads ecological knowledge and praxis via interactivity. On the other hand, the key mediation of nature-human metabolism through human labour contributes to environmentally friendly products, which cultivate an ecological culture of consumerism. Thus, the metaverse functions in a posthumanist context that consumes nature and humans for profit; however, the metaverse can also arouse thoughts of sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Childhood, adolescent and young-adult (AYA) cancer survivors often experience health problems due to late or long-term effects of their cancer or the treatment thereof. The general population gains health benefits from immersion in nature, and nature-based programmes seem to be an intervention that can promote health among childhood and AYA cancer survivors. Objective: To explore the impact of the WAYA wilderness programme on the health of childhood and AYA cancer survivors. Methods: The study had a qualitative approach, with data from individual interviews (n = 18) 3 months after completion of the WAYA programme. In addition, case report data was collected during follow-up talks (1, 2 and 12 months after the programme) (n = 19). The WAYA programme consisted of an 8-day expedition, followed 3 months later by a 4-day base camp. The programme included activities such as hiking, backpacking, kayaking, rock climbing, bushcraft and mindfulness. Data was analysed according to a qualitative content analysis. The consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) were followed. Results: An overarching theme was identified: "Personal growth from challenges in nature supported by deep connections with others". In 4 additional themes, participants' experiences describe how deep personal connections arose, as they developed a feeling of being able and competent in nature. Nature provided a space that supported relaxation and respite from everyday challenges and stimuli, which also led to an experience of being more connected to nature. Conclusion: The WAYA programme was experienced as being of support to childhood and AYA cancer survivors. The programme provided them with skills and tools to be safe in nature. When connected to nature, the participants developed trust and self-confidence, personal growth, relaxation and recovery from stress. Their engagement in outdoor activities continued after completion of the programme, when they returned to everyday life at home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Challenging the ontological dualism of being and thing, the article underscores the constant movement of "energy" between these two categories by reading Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain within the paradigms of New Materialism, Shakta -Tantra and an eco-theological conceptualization of "energy". Drawing on several post-secular philosophical ideas like "ecosophy" and "cosmotheandric spirituality", it explores the alternative, Indigenous modes of communication with and through the divine Earth, which were gradually destroyed by seductive capitalism, resulting in eco-theocide and environmental disaster. This mode of eco-theological conversation with "material" nature diverges from the discourse of sustainable "conservation" used by late capitalism to underplay the history of ecological injustice. Finally, this article also plans to situate Ghosh's The Living Mountain within the living traditions of mountain worship prevalent in different parts of India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Mary Niles Maack the ethics of care was central to librarianship. She viewed it as foundational to libraries' history and mission of providing equal access and services to everyone. While there is much disillusionment today about progress collective living conditions and the future of the earth we need to rethink the ethics of care in libraries with new perspectives on the vulnerabilities of patrons (caring about) ways of responding to the needs of vulnerable beings (care receiving) and the consequences for librarians of developing appropriate skills and responsibilities (caregiving and caring for). In this article I look at these issues to see how they are already reflected in current library practices and services with an emphasis on their development in francophone countries. I observe that the increase in scope of the ethics of care from a human perspective to a living perspective opens new ways for libraries to be ethical political safe and yet also subversive places. By extending the ethics of care to all sentient beings in listening to everyone's stories and giving them a voice in preserving these narratives in their catalogs librarians promote a profession dedicated to the equal treatment of all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper attempts to unravel newer ecosophical dimensions of posthumanism through the textual analysis of Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan's The Infinity of Grace (1987/1999). Posthumanism, a dynamic field of inquiry generally explored in the current context of "bio-, nano-, neuro- and info- technologies" also refers to what Rosi Braidotti calls an "enlarged sense of interconnectedness between self and the other. " Braidotti, while reinventing the posthuman subjectivity, bases it on an ecosophy that merges technological, geological, and biological dimensions. In this context, the paper argues how the spiritually rooted Indian environmental philosophy offers new perspectives to look at Braidotti's relational model of ecosophy through the analysis of the chosen text. Using Braidotti's theoretical concepts, zoe-centrism, symbiotic becoming, and nomadic subjectivity, this paper presents insights into the formation of individual subjectivity through the characters' interaction with their physical and mental environments and its rootedness in Indian environmental philosophy. In doing so, the study reveals a guru-shishya trope, a trope that generally depicts a mentor-disciple relationship among the nonhuman and human entities. By focusing on this trope, the role of Vijayan's writings in contributing to the expanding eco-philosophy ofposthumanism may be foregrounded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the aesthetics of the psychedelic experience. Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception remains one of the few studies that investigates the aesthetic dimension of the psychedelic experience as profoundly meaningful as such, because it gives direct attention to the nonhuman otherness of the universe that is hard to describe in words, but that can be felt and sensed. Similarly, Deleuze and Guattari have investigated psychedelics as a perceptual, aesthetic, phenomenon. They argue that psychedelic aesthetics offers an experience at the limits of perception to the point of ultimate abstraction of geometric figures and grains. Drawing upon the works of two experimental filmmakers from two different generations and backgrounds, Philippe Garrel's enigmatic Le Révélateur (The Revealer, 1968) and Morgan Quaintance's thought-provoking Surviving You, Always (2021), the borders of the perceptual field by cinematographic means will be investigated. These works are exemplary of how the nonhuman perception of the camera, its 'bodies without organs', and its affective intensity evoke a psychedelic, mind-revealing, experience and an ethics of – in Deleuze's words – 'becoming not unworthy of the event'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The claim that environmental virtue ethics (EVE) is anthropocentric appears inherently aporetic since it implies that either anthropocentrism is virtuous or the whole environmental issue is anthropocentric, thus translating vices into virtues or vice versa. Another interpretation is that both the environment and humanity are thought with a vicious conception of centeredness. Conversely, if centeredness is rightly addressed and humanity and its environment are considered as one and the same issue, the focus on anthropocentrism should also be different. By drawing on Felix Guatttari's ecosophy, this paper proposes that EVE needs to be based on a philosophical understanding of agriculture. Thus, agriculture is the organic and epistemic matrix of our relation to the environment and not merely a section of an abstract environment nor one economic area among others. The environmental crisis is primarily a crisis of humanity within its agricultural matrix. To be an environmentally virtuous human being, a requirement is to face again the burden of our absolute need for food and for fruitful cooperation between farmers and plants, not only animals. This paper discusses the importance of plant ethics and plant topology to understand the specificities of the agricultural matrix. The emphasis will be placed on plant-centered virtue ethics and reframing anthropocentrism by drawing on transdisciplinary conversation with plant practitioners in the context of a research action project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical paper mobilises a multi-modal figuration - octo-aesthetics - to argue for a transversal approach to HE (higher education) pedagogies appropriate to times of uncertainty. Using the eight independently thinking arms of the octopus as a guide, I deploy eight interrelated conceptual thinking aids to outline the relevance of an ethico-aesthetic paradigm to HE in times of individual, social, and environmental crisis. Deployed as speculative thinking aids, these octoaesthetic figurations - schizoanalysis, bewilderment, shimmer, ecosophy, ecologicity, holobiont, trans-corporeality, and geontology - reclaim 'vision' and 'objectivity' from the disembodied allknowing gaze of 'Man' and queer the central, and often unquestioned positions of privilege accorded to this viewpoint in humanist education systems. Calling into question anthropocentric binary/separatist humanist logics and assumptions of objective mastery, octo-aesthetic figurations reveal the onto-ethical outlines of a transversally situated learning modality that defies objectifying majoritarian modes of thinking/learning that are no longer appropriate to pedagogies in times of ecological calamity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Textbooks may reflect a certain ecosophy through the linguistic elements of the content that significantly influences students' values. This analysis selected 88 discourses from the reading sections of Communicative English for Chinese Learners (Integrated Course), from Books 1 to 4, designed for undergraduate English majors. Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics, the title and the illustration of the reading sections are analyzed to ascertain whether the ideology they reflect is in accord with the ecosophy, that is, the harmonious coexistence of humans, nature, and the development of society. After conducting a textual analysis, all multimodal discourses that can reflect clear ecosophy conform to this idea. Concerning illustrations, seven of them are at variance with the ecosophy. As for the analysis of the logico-semantic relations between image and text, only three discourses are found at variance with the ecosophy, but in actual pedagogical context, these three discourses aim to arouse the thinking of the audience about people's inappropriate conduct and arouse their ecological consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global pandemic has pushed many of us to online streaming services. A particular genre in these services is the 'end of the world' science fiction film, in and through which the speculated results of processes such as climate change are depicted. CGI technology is frequently deployed to create images of the end of the world, which is a backdrop to the narrative of, 'saving ourselves amidst the ruins'. This philosophy of education essay will critically examine ten films in order to: Explain how 'the end of the world' images connected to processes such as climate change, obscures and displaces attention from the real, scientifically proven processes that are not so entertaining, but are still deadly. The images are created by capital and its machines for audience attention and have little to do with real social change. Science sits in an ambiguous position in this paper in that the real processes of climate change proven by science may be funded by capitalist mechanisms that can also be their cause. Introduce a reformulated notion of ecosophy from the work of Félix Guattari, Murray Bookchin, Arne Næss and Andre Gorz. This essay will suggest that ecosophy has the potential to teach the underlying split between depictions of the end of the world through the capitalist machine and the real social change necessary under climate change. Ecosophy is in the context of this essay a specific conceptual construction designed for teaching about climate change through cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Guérilla (2019), a multi-voiced novel by the French-language Belgian writer, Véronique Bergen, raises the question of the current environmental crisis. I shall look at the main characters' ecological personality: four eco guerrilleros, a woman, a child and Gaia. Within the theoretical framework developed by Stéphanie Posthumus, which she based on Félix Guattari's Ecosophy and three Ecologies (mental, social and environmental), I shall examine the characters' subjectivity. Furthermore, I shall resort to the concept of resistance to which Véronique Bergen has dedicated her essay Résistances philosophiques (2009). I shall highlight the resistant stances adopted by the characters in their experimentation of subjectivity: the guerilla and the use of violence, the misuse of language, the building of new alliances with all life forms and the cosmos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article scrutinizes the ways in which Turkish state actors have shaped the social ecosophy of emigrants and their descendants residing in Europe. Describing the Turkish state's perspectives toward emigrants reveals that Turkish state actors always have instrumentalized emigrants since the beginning of the migratory processes in the 1960s. The focus will be on the current Turkish government's acts and policies, which are likely to contribute to the Muslimization of Turkey-origin emigrants in diaspora, or in other words, to their labeling simply as 'Muslims'. Based on a thorough analysis of secondary literature, discourse analyses of contemporary Turkish political leaders' speeches aimed at Turkish emigrants and their descendants as well as my earlier and ongoing field research findings, I argue that it is the indifference of some European state actors who have not offered political opportunity structures for devout Muslims with Turkish background to be incorporated into the public/political space at the expense of pushing them into the Turkish state actors' hands that offer alternative political opportunity structures. Hence, the article elaborates the ways in which receiving states' policies and practices toward migrant-origin people impact diaspora politics of the migrant-sending states. The emphasis is on German and Turkish state actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study applies the visual grammar theory to the multimodal ecological discourse analysis of the students' presentation PPT slides in business English class. It investigates the process of meaning construction through a quantitative analysis of 160 images and a thorough qualitative analysis of 2 specific images. The results reveal that students' ecological values embedded in PPT design are delivered via intersemiotic play of multimodal semiotic resources. And it is found that students' ecological values are in accordance with the ecosophy of "Diversity and Harmony, Interaction and Co-existence", which highlights the harmonious coexistence between man, society and nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflecting on the mental ecologies of digital life and the crisis of spirit in the contemporary era, this article principally addresses the question of the possibility of epokhē (ἐποχή), the crisis of formation or self-cultivation (Bildung) and the possibility of a "third world," which can be opened up by the phenomenological practice of epokhē. This will be undertaken idiosyncratically through a comparison between the thoughts of the British novelist and professor of contemporary thought at Brunel University in London, Will Self, and the late French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952–2020). Both thinkers, albeit in different ways and with different emphases—one literary, one more philosophical—address the psychical and traumatogenic consequences of epokhē. We can understand this as a suspension of disbelief in the present as we live through an "epoch without epoch," a time witnessing the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technologies of the spirit. This is the time of the simulacrum of the real and the circulation of symbolic exchange and death. Both thinkers are interested in reinterpreting the concept of epokhē to consider psychic individuation or the psycho-pathological effects of technology upon the embodied human sensorium. I proffer some original thoughts drawn from the paradigm of critical postmedia philosophy and ecosophy on how to take the best elements from these thinkers to mount a sustained critique of technical life in the traumatized present that is without epoch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper further explores the importance of "becoming-Aboriginal" as a postcolonial or decolonising strategy in terms of Australian national identity, specifically through the "gateway" of Aboriginal tourism. Here, however, this strategy is tied particularly to Felix Guattari's work The Three Ecologies (1989) as part of a more urgent need to confront the crises presently facing humanity. Through focusing on one region in northern South Australia, initially visited in 1980 then again in 2020, I reflect upon my own experiences with Aboriginal culture and its ecologies in this area as a way to explore and expand upon not only my own identity and subjectivity but that of Australia's more generally. Considering Australia has always suffered something of an "identity crisis" because of its often brutal white colonial history, the concepts of cultural transversality and ecosophy could provide a further turning point in the reconciliation process between Aboriginal and settler Australians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many authors in the field of Environmental Philosophy have claimed to be inspired by Spinoza's monism, which has traditionally been considered a form of pantheism because nature and God coincide. This idea has deep normative implications, as some environmental ethicists claim that wounding nature is the same as wounding God, which implies a resacralization of nature. In particular, we will focus on Arne Næss's Ecosophy (or Deep Ecology) to offer a current relevant example of the pantheist (or panentheist) worldview. However, a new demarcation distinguishes pantheism from panentheism; in the latter, nature and God belong together but do not fully coincide, as in pantheism. Nevertheless, whether Spinoza is a panentheist, pantheist, or neither has yet to be fully determined, as well as whether his doctrine serves as a proper foundation for an ecology that attempts the aforementioned resacralization of nature. This article attempts to clarify these issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language cannot be separated from the environment where we live by, because they have relationship with one another. When discussing how to protect the environment, it has to do with human wisdom or self-realization, which is influenced by Gandhi’s teachings on self-realization and nonviolence, as well as the Mahayana Buddhist distinction between the small ego-self and the expansive Self of Buddha. This research was aimed to decribe Afroz Shah’s utterances that contains ecosophy on Youtube.com. The primary source of data in this research was taken from youtube video, while the secondary data was from books and journals to support to this research. It used a qualitative descriptive method in conjunction with Arne Naess’ ecosophy theory. The data was gathered by downloading an Afroz Shah video from Youtube.com, watching it, reading and checking the video script, taking notes and underlining the data, re-watching and re-checking the data, and capturing, coding, and reducing the data. The data were presented, described, interpreted, and concluded using data analysis techniques. Based on the findings and discussion, the researcher came to the conclusion that Afroz Shah’s ecosophy can be divided into four categories: norms, rules, postulates, and value priority announcements [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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If the desert was long perceived as a hostile and inhospitable territory, it was gradually conquered during the 20th century by the practice of sports and leisure activities. The aim of this article is to study these practices in the Saharan zone and, in particular, the genealogy of these practices in relation to speed. The first period, in the continuity of modernity thinking, was characterized by a time of acceleration of sports practices. The practice of desert driving and extreme sports are obviously the most symbolic of this period. Placed under the influence of a 'technological paradigm', these practices reflect the expression of 'One-Dimensional Man' in the language of sport. Today, these sports practices are more or less in decline, and new corporal and leisure practices are definitively joining a logic of slowness a more intimate projection of the body in nature and sustainable leisure. The development of Saharan hiking, the revival of camel riding, and sand bathing are evidence of this trend. In these new Saharan practices, slowness can be analysed as an emerging experience (Andrieu 2017b) of belonging to the World and Nature. The depth of the body is rediscovered through a body ecology that translates the awakening of a body placed in a life-giving situation at the heart of nature. This exhalation of an existential resourcing requires a spatial support, a counterpart of 'corpospatiality' which must be analysed through a second use or diversion. The slowing down of the pace of activities then makes it possible to envisage new ways of being in the world and interacting with it. These new bodily experiences in the desert can finally be seen as the expression of a renewed ecosophy understood as wisdom based on communion with nature, with others and with oneself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a meta-theoretical study devoted to the ecosophical project of Felix Guattari developed in his two books The Three Ecologies i Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm. According to Aleksandra Ubertowska, the core aim of Guattari's work is rethinking of the issue of subject which he regards as a process of the non-anthropocentric subjectivisation. Ubertowska devotes particular attention to the notion of transversality, intersection of many processes, social and environmental axes which in Guattari's work should determine the ecosophical approach. In the late part of the article Ubertowska elaborates on the concept of chaosmosis which Guattari compared to the language of madness, and defines as oscillation between excess of meanings and vacuum of signs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a summary of Professor Arran Stibbe's ten online lectures on ecolinguistics at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The lecture series begins by asking: Why, from an ecolinguistic perspective, do we need new stories to live by? With theoretical insights and practical analyses of a wide range of discourses, it then illustrates how eight types of stories, including ideology, evaluation, erasure, salience, identity, narrative, framing, and metaphor can work cognitively to influence the way people construe reality, in the hope of encouraging people to use language that can inspire them to protect the planet instead of destroying it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a summary of the newly published book New Developments of Ecological Discourse Analysis. On the premise of reviewing the overall development of ecolinguistics, this book firstly develops the Hallidayan approach and defines Ecological Discourse Analysis as an independent paradigm. Based on the guiding principle of the ecosophy, "Diversity and Harmony, Interaction and Co-existence", it then expands and extends the experiential, interpersonal, textual, and logical metafunctions within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Consequently, it constructs the theoretical systems of Ecological Discourse Analysis from the perspective of ecolinguistics: the transitivity system, mood system, appraisal system, Theme system, cohesion and coherence system, and logical system. This book presents readers with a comprehensive and applicable theoretical framework for Ecological Discourse Analysis, that is, "ecological grammar". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increasing pressure for sustainable development has resulted in a multitude of reporting practices intended to provide more transparent information on progress toward greater sustainability. We argue that measurement as an operating mode has emerged as a magic solution for reversing the trend towards unsustainable development, but as tools the use of such metrics cannot alone be regarded as sufficient to achieve this goal. We assert that to enable reflection on coherent systems of governance much work is needed on the conceptualisation, determinants and consequences of sustainable development. To this end we urge a shift away from this existing mechanistic type of corporate and public governance and propose a systemic transformation to cooperative multi-level interactions in governance where local communities are empowered to act according to the natural rhythyms of the planet. Our framework for this transformation, which we term organic governance, departs from local actions carried out in isolation, moving towards a global vision integrated at the national and regional levels based on shared values drawn from deeper understandings of natural ecosystems at local levels. This approach requires continual adaptation at local levels where economy and policy making serve the social well-being of local communities. In this research note we set out the conceptual basis for our organic governance framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper promotes an anti-anthropomorphic approach to the study of folk oratures of India’s Northeast with special reference to select motifs in the folk tales of the Bongcher and Chakma communities of Tripura (in English translation). The tales are replete with strange transformations from humans to beasts and birds, and vice versa. This motif of metamorphosis serves to situate the folk tales of this region in a paradigm which explores and accommodates a literally symbiotic kinship between art and nature. Timothy Morton’s observations on “ecological thought”, and the “mesh” resting on the pillars of inter-human and inter-elemental relationships which they foreground, offer a methodological premise to this study. This paper pursues an ecosophical study of select folk tales like – Rulrengtenu Retape (Bongcher), translated as “The Story of the Snake-Queen” and Bucya buri a Egpal Bandar (Chakma), translated as “The Old Man and the Band of Monkeys”. Besides, this study may also be situated at a crucial juncture in human history, when concerns of late capitalism and its consequent ecological collapse have begun to threaten life on this planet. Hence, this study also draws on Guattari’s notion of ecosophy engaged upon in his work The Three Ecologies, and explores how folk tales of India’s Northeast encompass the material, social, and perceptual realms of ecology in all its diverse life-affirming varieties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current study aims to highlight the environmental issues represented in Pakistani print media. The study seeks to sensitize people regarding the pivotal role of language in shaping the ideology of masses as to how ecological sustainability is significant for human existence and the way such dominant narratives are materialized through media discourse. Media has the power to (re)frame the ideology of larger audience through significant visual/linguistic content that paves the way for social change through viable social institutions to a wider audience. For this purpose, purposive sampling technique has been employed for data collection and five newspaper articles, published in Dawn, pertaining to ecological issues are taken into account for the analysis. The study follows theoretical model suggested by Stibbe (2015) in his book Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By. The findings of the study suggest that the environmental problems in Pakistani newspaper articles are referred to as ambivalent discourses that focus only on the environmental degradation and natural disasters with anthropocentric perspectives. Moreover, the discussion has demonstrated that conviction and salience are also incorporated to propagate the ideas of ecosophy. However, they should be improved and their perspective should be broadened to incorporate the aspects of nature that, though not harmful for humans, are harmful for nature itself and the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present environmental crisis that threatens the very existence of every life-form on the plundered planet, humanity is in search of a sustaining understanding and relationships to the earth because profound connections with natural processes and deep engagement with environmental surroundings are necessary to save this planet from environmental catastrophe. Deep ecology proposes a new spiritual understanding to find a fundamental solution to evolutionary eco-crisis through reviving the lost link and relationship with the earth. It believes in the experience of Selfrealization and in the intrinsic or inherent value of nature. Indic perennial scriptures like The Vedas, The Gita, the Upanishads, and the Puranas, which have been inspiring East-West deep ecologists with the eco-spiritual ethics and metaphysics, can offer a solution to eco-crisis through a radical shift in human consciousness in the way people relate with nature. They awaken humanity to be reconnected with the earth to realize deeper relations with Nature for the heal-all of all earthmaladies, and that heal-all lies in healing ourselves and in healing our deepening reconnection with Earth. The paper attempts to explore the ecological philosophy of Indic texts and traditions for inspiring humanity to form new life-ecosophies in the post-COVID era for the next survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]