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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"deep ecology"”.
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Post-environmentalism, the deep ecology/ecofeminist debate, and Surfacing : rereading environmental theory
… of all the discourses involved, in particular Deep-Ecology and Ecofeminism, without privileging one over another. However, I also point out ways in which this mapping project is subject to the same specular logic. In so far as Surfacing is a postmodernist text which constantly relativizes the …
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An investigation of the Four Area Curriculum Extension and Enrichment Model for Gifted Education as viewed through the Cartesian, Socialist and Deep Ecology epistemologies
… focuses: Cartesian, Socialist and Deep Ecology. Reasons for the selection of these three epistemologies are discussed after which the traditional Cartesian, homunculus view of giftedness is shown to be flawed and a case made for reconceptualizing giftedness to confirm its …
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Towards a deep ecology of art, technology and being - an ontological investigation with particular reference to the rock-cut edifices of Ellora, India, and Tadao Ando’s water temple
… the implications of relational being for ‘deep ecology’. With regard ‘relational being’, key inter-related Buddhist ideas drive the thinking and practice: ‘relational origination’ (pratityasamutpada), and ‘emptiness’(shunyata). Furthermore at the heart of this particular history of …
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Taoism and Contemporary Environmental Literature
… groups include mainstream environmentalists, deep ecology, and ecofeminism.
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Encountering The Oneness Paradigm : An Exploration of Christ Church Deal
… oneness paradigm adopts an ideology parallel to deep ecology and Indigenous communities that view spirituality as integral to everything. That is, the individual, their social relationships, and their relationship with the environment. It also has the ability to facilitate a particular type of …
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Green political theory: nature, virtue and progress
… accounts of green politics. In chapter 2, deep ecology is critically interrogated in terms of its metaphysical (2.3) and psychological claims (2.4). Its view of the 'ecological crisis' as a 'crisis' of western culture is criticised as is its a priori defence of environmental preservation …
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John Dewey and an ecological philosophy of religion
… naturalism, ecological and Gestalt psychology, deep ecology, and recent cognitive science. Dewey’s religious views are also analyzed in relation to the self-cultivation doctrines of Daoism and Zen Buddhism, highlighting rich connections between Dewey and Eastern thought; all of these thinkers …
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The Interscetions between economy, environment and loacality: the London 2012 Olympic and paralympic games
… conceptualisation of „shallow‟ and „deep‟ ecology, and Ecological Modernisation Theory (EMT) in order to better understand the relationship between the environment, sustainability and the Olympic Games. Adopting a three-phase qualitative approach which utilises interviews, focus …
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Dwelling in Contingency: Towards a Reappraisal of the Late Work of the British Photographer Raymond Moore, in Light of its Affinities with a Zen Buddhist Worldview
… Theory and Constructivism, the project of 'Deep Ecology', and Jullien's notion of 'Blandness'. The concluding chapter also examines the possible relevance to everyday life of the change in perspective implicitly suggested by Moore's work.<br/><br/>The thesis also contains an illustrated …
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Walking with change: a first-person inquiry into the development of a post-human “frilufts”-life
… of all living beings on our planet. Theories of Deep Ecology (Næss, 1995, 2008), Eco-psychology (Abram, 1997; Fisher, 2013; Roszak, 1995), Friluftsliv pedagogy (Tordsson, 2014), and movement (Sheets-Johnstone, 2011) are finely woven together and position this work it in the field of ecological …
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Exploring architectural knowledge in water sensitive design
… across disciplines. The research is guided by Deep Ecology, phenomenology and Ecological Urbanism. Research by Design is used as the method of the study, in which different design iterations based on the raw data of the original building are investigated and analysed, as well as evaluated by …
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Finding Fluid Form: A process aesthetic as a means to engage with the prevailing model of thinking in ecological art
… Thinking, Cybernetics, Artificial Life research, Deep Ecology and Process Thinking. It develops an experimental framework to guide the initiation, production, dissemination and evaluation of arts practice, which can critically engage with the approaches and attitudes of the prevailing view, but do …
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Procuring the urban house in paradise
… methods are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology, and not an anthropocentric orientation, therefore potentially creating a radical reappraisal of the criteria considered important in other assessment models. The prioritisation extends between fields, in search of most significant …
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Rebuilding the city from an ecological perspective
… a broad base is established which contrasts deep ecological thinking with the shallow environmentalism that preoccupies mainstream society. It is asserted that the radical theory and principles of Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Bioregionalism demonstrate an ecological wisdom and perspective …
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The Spatial Relationships among Neurotoxicant Exposure, Child Admissions, and Mental Health Assessment Scores: How do they Interact in the State of Ohio?
… exposure and mental illness. Theories related to deep ecology and children’s increased vulnerability informed the research agenda and suggested that children would be negatively impacted by neurotoxicants. Two basic questions guided the study: 1) How do neurotoxicant hazard quotients/indices …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
… richer variety of sources is used by the deep ecology movement, who made use of not only Western philosophical figures, such as Spinoza or certain representatives of immanentist eschatology in the Western Christian tradition, such as St Francis of Assisi, but also a variety of Buddhist and …
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Ecological labyrinths and myths of the fall: An earth-centred approach to The Lord of the Rings and His Dark Materials
… two paths that offer alternative definitions of ecology as a structure. One leads to a fixed, cyclical model, the other moves in a dynamic, evolutionary direction. These differences of orientation frame ecocritical responses that appear irreconcilable to each other. This research provides a way …
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Wilderness and western society: the essential role of myth in a cultural contructivist approach
… study claims that contemporary theories such as deep ecology, ecofeminism or social ecology do not take into account the full range of cultural influences in their explanation of a global ecological crisis, and that they tend towards the simplistic and prescriptive in their approach to possible …
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