Reflections on Collaboration as Performance and the Performance of Collaboration in an Age of COVID and Climate Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Natalie Loveless ◽  
Sheena Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Performance ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ecological Form ◽  
Collaborative Praxis ◽  
Climate Crisis

Natalie Loveless and Sheena Wilson reflect on their history of working collaboratively, thinking through the complexities of feminist labour informed by research on the maternal as social performance and social fact. Whether resculpting academic political spaces in more sustainable ways or reshaping daily reality according to more ecological form, the authors argue for collaborative praxis—collaborative performance and the performance of collaboration—as a means of resistance and resilience in a time of political and climate catastrophe.

Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Remote Memory ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Faith Traditions ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
Climate Crisis

Repeatedly through history, the world has been subject to severe climate-driven shocks, which have caused famine, disease, violence, social upheaval, and mass migration. Commonly, such episodes have been understood in religious terms, through the language of apocalypse, millennium, and Judgment. Often too, such eras have sparked far-reaching changes in the nature of religion and spirituality. Depending on the circumstances, the response to climatic visitations might include explosions in religious passion and commitment; the stirring of mystical and apocalyptic expectations; waves of religious scapegoating and persecution; or the spawning of new religious movements and revivals. In many cases, such responses have had lasting impacts, to the point of fundamentally reshaping particular faith traditions. From those eras have emerged passionate sects—some political and theocratic, some revivalistic and enthusiastic, others millenarian and subversive. The movements and ideas emerging from such conditions might last for many decades and become a familiar part of the religious landscape, although with their origins in particular moments of crisis increasingly consigned to remote memory. By stirring conflicts and provoking persecutions that defined themselves in religious terms, such eras have redrawn the world’s religious maps and created the global concentrations of believers as we know them today. Whether we are looking at the Christian tradition or at Jews, Muslims, or Buddhists, the history of religions must take account of this climate dimension. In the modern world, it is very likely that the growing climate crisis will likely have a comparable religious impact across much of the global South.

scholarly journals One sociological approach to some classic themes of English Political Economy

2018 ◽  
pp. 005-083
Keyword(s):  
Invisible Hand ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The North ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of Value

Abstract.-The paper seeks to raise awareness of the sheer expansive force of capitalism, a social fact that has completely transformed Western societies in the last 600 years. Although the text draws on the simplest and most sound categories of Marx’s labour theory of value, its focus is to show the power and political relationships that take place within enterprises –a new servitude. Our analytical method, as well as its empirical validation, builds on Durkheim’s concept of ‘reaction of punishment’. The paper also explores the historical and structural relations between the advanced sociability of our middle classes and their government by representative assemblies elected by them. For this purpose, we draw on the history of English parliamentarianism, from its social origins in the Normand invasion (1066), to its historical eclosion in the North American democracy (1787). Our interpretation is sociological, seeking the meaning of those exceptional historical transformations, and finding it –paradoxically-in the contrast between the ideal types of Community and Association established by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies. The text also analyses how individualism is originated in capitalist competition, and finishes by pointing out from where(within the social structure) such ideology is propagated as the only one that should shape our behaviour. Keywords:surplus value.-invisible hand.-English exceptionalism.-Ferdinand Tönnies.-empirical measurement.-Spencer-Brown Una aproximación sociológica a algunos temas clásicos de La Economía Política Inglesa Resumen.-El texto pretende hacernos conscientes de la tremenda fuerza expansiva del capitalismo, un hecho social que ha transformado por completo a las sociedades occidentales en los últimos 600 años. Utiliza las categorías más sencillas y consolidadas de la teoría del valor-trabajo de Marx, pero su objetivo es mostrar a las relaciones que tienen lugar en el interior de las empresas como relaciones de poder, como relaciones políticas, una nueva servidumbre. Para ello el método de análisis que aplicamos es muy próximo al concepto de ‘reacción penal’ de Durkheim - incluso en la propuesta que hacemos para su validación empírica. El estudio se pregunta además por las relaciones históricas y estructurales entre la sociabilidad avanzada de nuestras clases medias y su gobierno por asambleas representativas, que ellas mismas eligen. Para ello recurrimos a la historia del parlamentarismo inglés, desde sus lejanos orígenes sociales, que encontramos en la Invasión Normanda de la isla (1066), hasta su cabal eclosión histórica en la democracia norteamericana (1787). Pero nuestra interpretación es sociológica, busca el sentido de esas transformaciones históricas excepcionales, y lo halla (paradójicamente) en el contraste entre los tipos-ideales de Comunidad y Asociación establecidos en su día por el sociólogo alemán Ferdinand Tönnies.A lo largo del texto analizamos también cómose origina el individualismo en la competición capitalista, y finaliza señalando desde dónde (en el interior de la estructura social) se propaga dicha ideología, como la única considerada de recibo para orientar nuestro comportamiento. Palabras clave:plusvalía.-mano invisible.-excepcionalismo inglés.-F. Tönnies.-medición empírica.-Spencer-Brown

scholarly journals Major population splits coincide with episodes of rapid climate change in a forest-dependent bird

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1962) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera M. Warmuth ◽  
Malcolm D. Burgess ◽  
Toni Laaksonen ◽  
Andrea Manica ◽  
Marko Mägi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Species Distribution Modelling ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Direct Mutation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Rapid Temperature ◽  
Demographic Inference ◽  
Climate Crisis

Climate change influences population demography by altering patterns of gene flow and reproductive isolation. Direct mutation rates offer the possibility for accurate dating on the within-species level but are currently only available for a handful of vertebrate species. Here, we use the first directly estimated mutation rate in birds to study the evolutionary history of pied flycatchers ( Ficedula hypoleuca ). Using a combination of demographic inference and species distribution modelling, we show that all major population splits in this forest-dependent system occurred during periods of increased climate instability and rapid global temperature change. We show that the divergent Spanish subspecies originated during the Eemian–Weichselian transition 115–104 thousand years ago (kya), and not during the last glacial maximum (26.5–19 kya), as previously suggested. The magnitude and rates of climate change during the glacial–interglacial transitions that preceded population splits in pied flycatchers were similar to, or exceeded, those predicted to occur in the course of the current, human-induced climate crisis. As such, our results provide a timely reminder of the strong impact that episodes of climate instability and rapid temperature changes can have on species' evolutionary trajectories, with important implications for the natural world in the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Hartnett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Climate Crisis

Global climate change threatens to kill or displace hundreds of thousands of people and will irrevocably change the lifestyles of practically everyone on the planet. However, the effect of imperialism and colonialism on climate change is a topic that has not received adequate scrutiny. Empire has been a significant factor in the rise of fossil fuels. The complicated connections between conservation and empire often make it difficult to reconcile the two disparate fields of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. This paper will discuss how empire and imperialism have contributed to, and continue to shape, the ever-looming threat of global climate crisis, especially as it manifests in the tropics. Global climate change reinforces disparate economic, social, and racial conditions that were started, fostered, and thrived throughout the long history of colonization, inscribing climate change as a new, slow form of imperialism that is retracing the pathways that colonialism and globalism have already formed. Ultimately, it may only be by considering climate change through a postcolonial lens and utilizing indigenous resistance that the damage of this new form of climate imperialism can be undone.

Science Fiction Futures and (Re)visions of the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia D. Gibson ◽  
Kyle Powys Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Mass Extinctions ◽  
Technological Risk ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Climate Crisis

This chapter discusses how humans envision futures, especially environmental futures, including the climate crisis, the Anthropocene, and mass extinctions. Although the philosophy of technology has traditionally examined the forecasting of technological risk and arguments about whether to embrace or reject the growth of technological mediation of human lives, the field has yet to fully investigate environmental futurisms and imagination. To begin a conversation for the philosophy of technology, philosophies of science fiction narrative discuss the different roles that imagination plays in projecting our concerns with the present onto futures that have not occurred and future generations who are not yet living. One of the key issues that the chapter explores is how science fiction imagination is based on assumptions and values about the history of technological change, including industrialization, capitalism, and colonialism. These issues reveal ways in which technology, future narrative, and climate justice are related.

nr="17"Klimakrise und gesellschaftliches Lernen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-40
Author(s):  
Ulrich Brand ◽  
Gerd Steffens
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Societal Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Back

Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag fragt zunächst in einem Rückblick in historische Kontexte nach dem Verhältnis von Bildung und gesellschaftlichem Lernen und nach Gründen für ihren internen Zusammenhang, der sich insbesondere im Begriff der Mündigkeit zeigen lässt. Nach einem Blick auf die Geschichte des Themas Klimawandel/Klimakrise in öffentlicher Wahrnehmung und politischem Handeln geht der Beitrag den Gründen für die so offenkundige Differenz von Wissen und Handeln nach. Die wichtigsten dieser Gründe, so zeigt sich, lassen sich im Begriff der imperialen Lebensweise bündeln und als solche für Lernprozesse reflektieren. Im nächsten Schritt begründen die Autoren, warum sie statt einer ,,ökologischen Modernisierung“ eine ,,sozialökologische Transformation“ für den richtigeren Weg der Krisenbearbeitung halten, und sie legen dar, welche Imperative sich für eine sozialökologische Transformation angeben lassen. Abschließend führt der Beitrag die in allen Schritten der Argumentation präsenten Blicke auf gesellschaftliches Lernen unter dem Aspekt einer Wiederaneignung gesellschaftlicher Zukunft zusammen.Abstract: Looking back at historical contexts, the article first asks about the relationship between education and societal learning processes, as well as the reasons behind their internal connection which can be shown in the idea of autonomy. After taking a look at the history of climate change/climate crisis in public perception and political action, the article explores the reasons for the obvious difference between knowledge and action. The most important of these, it turns out, can be analysed as imperial way of living and as such critically reflected for learning processes. Next, the authors explain why they consider a “socio-ecological transformation” rather than an “ecological modernization” to be the better way of dealing with the crisis and list the imperatives for a socio-ecological transformation. Finally, the article unites various views of social learning at all steps of the argument under the banner of re-appropriation of the future of society.

O marcă identitară controversată: Portul sătenilor din Șiria, jud. Arad

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Ion Cherciu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Seasonal Workers ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
History Of ◽  
Romanian Population ◽  
El Dorado

One of the great challenges of the Romanian ethnography after the union of Transylvania with Romania was - in parallel with the delimitation of the main ethnographic areas - the formation of a typology of the Romanian folk costume. Due to the specific history of this great province, this approach proved to be extremely complicated: compared to the conservative and eminently Romanian areas as the "cultural costumes" of the Apuseni (L. Apolzan), Năsăud, Ţara Oltului, Maramureş, Haţeg etc. , there were identified regions where, at least at first sight, the traditional costume worn by the Romanian population was far from being considered, according to the classic patterns in our ethnography, a specific Romanian identity mark. Such a case is the " villagers traditional costume" in Șiria region, Arad county, seen as a mixture of foreign styles (Hungarian, German and Slovak), the only remaining pieces of the old costume being the shirt, the lap and the winter coat. Marcel Olinescu's suggestion to study the costume in Șiria from the perspective of the Sociological School of Bucharest, therefore analysing it as a "social fact" leads to the conclusion that we are facing a specific phenomenon of creating a Romanian identity mark with a precise motivation meant to emphasize the privileged economic and social status of the Arad winegrowers. Compared to the white clothes worn by the mass of seasonal workers attracted to this El Dorado, the costume from Șiria, made of expensive fabrics, such as silk and velvet fabrics, brought the inhabitants of this area closer to the models at the top of the Arad society, where the clerks and the owners of the former large landed properties belonged to the cohabiting ethnic groups.

General George S. Patton and Our Climate Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-184
Author(s):  
John Thomas Riley
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Climate Crisis

The story of General Patton at the Battle of the Bulge is an excellent example of a story with a message that can be applied to our climate crisis. Our climate crisis is the defining problem for human society in the 21st century. Although the current situation is chaotic, as in this story, several positive paths are now clear enough to allow useful plans for a worldwide effort. One alternative to fear is to build a vision of a viable future through stories. Stories have a long history of being a common tool for building unified societal efforts. The stories that society now needs require both a science-based background and believable characters in effective action on our climate crisis. The elements used to build stories, first the background and then the plot, are called beats. The background beats developed here include sea level rise, no-till farming, population peaking, and technology innovation for the period 2020 to 2100. These beats should enable fiction writers to place stories and characters in a world of action on our climate crisis.

scholarly journals Café Culture as Decolonial Feminist Praxis: Scherezade García’s Blame … Coffee

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Lesley A. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Social Performance ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Coffee Production ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Napoleon Bonaparte ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Cafe Culture

This article provides a decolonial feminist analysis of Latinx artist Scherezade García’s most recent portable mural, Blame it on the bean: the power of Coffee (2019), created for and installed in the café and library of The People’s Forum, a “movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities” and “collective action” in the heart of Manhattan. This artwork depicts three allegorical women convening over cups of coffee, one of which has precariously overflowed onto a miniaturized portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose undoing was said to have been facilitated by his excessive indulgence in coffee and other commodities of empire. Historically, coffee production was bound to imperial plantocracies, enslavement, and patriarchal networks; today, the industry remains a continued site of oppression and erasure for female workers around the globe. By placing this mural in conversation with the portable material economies of the Caribbean, the gendered history of coffee production and consumption, and the history of female representation in art, this article argues that the mural dismantles heteropatriarchal conventions precisely by invoking café culture—the very mode of social performance that García’s work critiques. In so doing, García subverts the problematically gendered and racialized heritage of coffee with a matriarchal Afrolatinidad that, in the artist’s words, “colonizes the colonizer.”

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