RT Article
T1 Global Visions and Common Ground: Biodemocracy, Postmodern Pressures, and the Earth Charter: with Matthew T. Riley, “The Earth Charter and Biodemocracy in the Twenty-First Century”; Mary Evelyn Tucker, “The Earth Charter and Journey of the Universe: An Integrated Framework for Biodemocracy”; Heather Eaton, “Global Visions and Common Ground: Biodemocracy, Postmodern Pressures, and the Earth Charter”, and Matthew T. Riley, “The Democratic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis: Lynn White, Biodemocracy, and the Earth Charter.”
JF Zygon
VO 49
IS 4
SP 917
OP 937
A1 Eaton, Heather 1956-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827965274
AB The theme of this article is a rise in notions of a planetary community, and the tensions this evokes in global-local and universal-contextual debates. The primary focus is the realization that new visions are needed to respond to ecological dilemmas in a culturally diverse yet global world and interconnected Earth. Of the many ways to discuss this, I first consider the growing interest in and expansion of biodemocracy as a way to combine these dimensions. Insights and issues from postmodern perspectives follow this, surveying the suspicion of what lurks behind “global.” The next segment turns to ecological postmodernists who realize that a unifying path must be found for a viable planetary future. A brief and final section considers the Earth Charter to be an initiative responsive to postmodern pressures, and yet seeking a global vision and common ground for an emerging world community.
K1 planetary civilization
K1 global values
K1 Environment
K1 ecological postmodernism
K1 the Earth Charter
K1 biodemocracy
DO 10.1111/zygo.12134