People and the Planet: Implications of Hybridity for Ethics and Consumption Choices
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It explores the way in which local cultural experience frames the way in which the links between people and the planet are understood. Perspectives on hybridity and interconnectedness and the implications for ethics shape what globalisation means locally. The global homogeneity does not only shape human beings ‘from above’ through powerful agents, it can also be reshaped from below. The central question posed is what constitutes an ethical choice for living? What should be our guideline? I start by reconsidering Boulding’s (1956) General Systems Theory—the skeleton of science which maps the different ways of knowing:
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People and the Planet: Implications of Hybridity for Ethics and Consumption Choices
It explores the way in which local cultural experience frames the way in which the links between people and the planet are understood. Perspectives on hybridity and interconnectedness and the implications for ethics shape what globalisation means locally. The global homogeneity does not only shape human beings ‘from above’ through powerful agents, it can also be reshaped from below. The central...
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تاریخ انتشار 2017