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COSTA, DONATIEN. "FROM THE STRUGGLES FOR LAND TO THE STRUGGLES FOR TERRITORY: STEPS TOWARD A GRAMMAR OF ECOLOGICAL CONFLICTS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/900492.
Full textDans cette thèse, nous partons d'un fait écologique actuel: la crise écologique va de pair avec la prolifération des conflits environnementaux. Ce fait attesté par une vaste littérature en sciences sociales nous conduit à chercher une grammaire du conflit adéquate à ces formes spécifiques de luttes. Pour ce faire, nous retraçons l'histoire environnementale des grammaires du conflit héritées de la philosophie sociale et politique moderne. Nous distinguons ainsi trois grammaires générales du conflit: la grammaire de l'Avoir comprend les guerres d'appropriation (Hobbes), les luttes pour la distribution et l'appropriation collective des terres (Babeuf); la grammaire de l'Être comprend les luttes pour la reconnaissance (Hegel); la grammaire de l'Action comprend les conflits d'usage (Fichte). Bien que ces grammaires aient été élaborées dans un rapport étroit avec la question de la terre, elles se révèlent à l'analyse inaptes à rendre compte adéquatement de ces luttes porteuses d'une écologie des attachements. Elles ont notamment rencontré trois écueils: elles n'ont pas su dépasser l'alternative entre arrachement et enracinement; elles ont défini les rapports à la terre exclusivement en termes d'appropriation; leur structure reste inadéquate à toute grammaire de l'attachement. Dès lors, la lecture de récents travaux en anthropologie portant sur les conflits écologiques nous conduit vers une grammaire des attachements territoriaux. Loin de désespérer de tout discours philosophique, nous décelons les linéaments théoriques d'une telle grammaire du conflit dans la philosophie politique des territorialités élaborée par Deleuze et Guattari. Nous nous proposons alors de relire Mille Plateaux, texte qui articule un concept philosophique de territoire à une théorie des conflits territoriaux entre les formations sociales. Nous mettons enfin ce modèle à l'épreuve des données fournies par l'ethnographie des conflits écologiques dans les basses terres de l'Équateur.
Brière, Jean-Luc. "Identité et complexité de l'environnement." Paris 7, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA070034.
Full textM'Baka, Cyriaque Blaise. "Le rôle de l'imaginaire informatique dans l'environnement." Paris 5, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA05H061.
Full textThe climax of modernity, the limits of sheer, scientific and technical reason, added to the transition towards postmodernity with the return of none rational trend had already pushed ourselves to revise our scientific methods in order to revise to explain more efficiently social phenomenons. Just as catalysts, data processing, the internet, the virtual and eventually the cyberspace are going to increase this epistemologic bias, or this gap between the social realities, and the sociological implements available to study this postmodernity. The awareness of "sens" as contents like Georges siSmel considered it, the awareness of imaginary as Gilbert Durand thought it, and the sensitive reason's awareness, theory of Michel Maffesoli that underlines the important state of daily life, are the main guides we follow to try a new approach of social phenomenons. We'd rather study the imaginary of data processing, instead of data processing itself, on account of its nature both scientific, technical and sensitive, social, then we can better understand the upheavals of our postmodern societies. Around technological improvement, there is an equilibration, which logic can be better undertood from the data processing reality than from unadapted criterions. Thus, it is clear that according the vision one has of cyberspace (rational or imaginary), one's behaviour (cyber space's users) is considered wether as a "transgression", or as "completely normal". Transgression is a word without sens in the cyberspace. The role of data processing imaginary is getting more precise all through this thesis
Soleilhac, Thibault Untermaier Jean. "Le temps et le droit de l'environnement." Lyon : Université Lyon3, 2007. http://thesesbrain.univ-lyon3.fr/sdx/theses/lyon3/2006/soleilhac_t.
Full textSoleilhac, Thibault. "Le temps et le droit de l'environnement." Lyon 3, 2006. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2006_in_soleilhac_t.pdf.
Full textTime and environmental law maintain close connections together, when it comes to developing a new branch of law in the course of time or to the law taking time into account. Multiple time dimensions offer afford an essential interpretation structure of the environmental law as for its genesis, its purpose of social orientation, the rupture and continuity it shows. In the same way, its dynamics presents multiple rates of development and movements of regression as well as consolidations over the years. Legal approach to environment reveals a time omnipresence, the main feature of the object legally referred or within the framework of the legal application, often immediately. Long term, irreversibility, environmental processes and balances, common heritage, generations-to-be and sustainable development are among the many examples which illustrate the rich conception of time specific to environmental law. The emergence of these specific temporalities shows that environmental law is thought only in terms of resolving the collision between the time of man and the time of nature
Mermet, Laurent. "La Nature, jeu de société : une analyse stratégique pour la gestion de l'environnement." Paris 9, 1989. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=1989PA090026.
Full textThe dissertation proposes to practitioners of and researchers in environmental management a methodology to analyze and to synthetize information on the "non-technical" components of environmental problems. It is based on a number of previous case studies, on which the metaphor of environmental management situations as games has been systematically applied. The main themes addressed are the diversity and common structures of environmental problems, a method for diagnosis, and a method for the strategic preparation of environmental management actions
Nedjar, Akila. "Le thème de l'environnement dans les médias généralistes : l'analyse des cadres discursifs." Lyon, Ecole normale supérieure, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000ENSF0003.
Full textBonnel, Guillaume. "Le principe juridique écrit et le droit de l'environnement." Limoges, 2005. http://aurore.unilim.fr/theses/nxfile/default/71a9d22a-737d-404e-9a61-fdd0e50bc8dc/blobholder:0/2005LIMO0501.pdf.
Full textThe research uses the concepts of theory and philosophy of law to explain how environmental law has been using explicit principles. It firstly begins to try to specify the notion of "explicit principle" itself, showing it is under the influence of two paradigms – the paradigm of transcendance and the panlegist paradigm – that determines the way law used it. Then the research analyses the ways environmental law uses this notion, so as to check the hypothesis of an appropriation that could lead to a specific use. This hypothesis, the "formal empathy of law", which says that law techniques can adjust their forms to suit their objects when they have a peculiar influence, tries to verify if environmental principles are specifical in comparison with the other explicit principles used in other fields of law. In order to show this, environmental law principles, in the constitutionnal and legislative fields, are compared with the other explicit principles of french law, first as ways of expressing norms, and then as means of justifying jurisprudence decisions. The research shows that environmental principles are stimulated by the formal empathy of law as a way of expressing norms, but that their efficiency as a mean of justifying decisions is limited by the textual centralism that distinguishes the justification practises of judges
Samson, David. "La crise environnementale : critique historique et philosophique des notions de conscience écologique et de rationalité instrumentale." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0072.
Full textThis theoretical and empirical work aims to question two concepts which structure environmental studies and philosophy of technology: “ecological consciousness” (or “environmental awareness”) and “instrumental rationality”. In itself, it is also a reflexion on the relations between philosophy and social sciences and on transdisciplinarity, often considered as a central trait of “postmodernity” and of the “rule of technology”. In order to do so, il uses various sources (legal, political, mediatics and academics) and several experiences of participant observation to participative democracy apparatuses (in particular at the French High Council of Biotechnologies).By furthering the criticism of the “reflexive Modernity” paradigm, the first part analyzes the problematization of the “environment” in France (1870-1945) and in Germany (1900-1945). The genealogy of environmental governability and of expertise leads to question the opposition between “anthropocentrism” and “biocentrism” and to reconceptualize the idea of a sudden “environmental awareness”. We will rather conceptualize the “environment” as a composite, variable, heterogene and potentially contradictory agencement.This will also lead us to substitue to the conceptual triangle “Technology-Environment-Modernity” a four terms diamond, “Technology-Environment-Modernity-Nazism”. Notwithstanding the role of technology in the Holocaust and Heidegger’s particular status, the analysis of nazism leads us to question the equivocity of calls to live “in harmony with nature” and to “control technology” as well as the idea that we could identify an “occidental relation to nature”.In our second part, the commentary of Heidegger and of the Frankfurt School allows us to analyze the notion of “instrumental rationality” and the idea that anthrpocentrism would be the cause of the environmental crisis. Calling on history of philosophy as well as on the problematization of historical and legal cases, we will henceforth analyze common problems to the critique of technology and environmental ethics, in particular the notions of an “ecological conversion” and of the indermination of technology . We will in particular treat of the project of a technical and environmental democracy and of its limits. The main aim of this work is henceforth to think differently the environment, technology and sciences, but also law and politics which aims to regulate them and thus confront the environmental crisis
Federau, Alexander. "Philosophie de l'Anthropocène : interprétations et épistémologie." Thesis, Dijon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016DIJOL006.
Full textFor several decades, part of the scientific community has observed and denounced the magnitude of the anthropogenic environmental change. A recent concept has emerged from these concerns, which crystallises the idea of a lasting planetary transformation: the Anthropocene, the proposal to define a new geological epoch that ends the Holocene, and in which the human being has become a geological force. This work assumes that the Anthropocene brings modern dualism between man and nature to its extreme limits. In the first part, the actual debates from geologists on the Anthropocene are discussed, as well as the precursors. The multiple dimensions of the Ôgeological forceÕ are presented, as well as the consequences for the protection of nature. The second part is interpretative. A typology of different understandings of the Anthropocene is given. The modalities of interdisciplinary work between natural and social sciences are examined. The question of how it is possible to overcome modern dualism is analysed. A special question is to understand how the Anthropocene gives a new meaning to our understanding of time. Finally, it is shown how and why the Anthropocene asks us to adapt our planetary representations. There is no consensus on the meaning of the Anthropocene, which is a blessing for some, the announcement of a disaster for others. The thesis offers a philosophical look and original interpretation on a controversial issue of great news
Naim-Gesbert, Éric. "Les dimension scientifiques du droit de l'environnement : contribution à l'étude des rapports de la science et du droit." Lyon 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997LYO33003.
Full textThe objective of the present research is to measure the "scientificity" of law (the scientific dimensions of environmental law resulting from the interference of science in the environmental juridical order, - and not from the only legalistic point of view) ; to study its outlines and its modes, by always searching to evaluate the degree of adherence of environmental law, on the one hand, to specific scientific foundations and notably of ecological paradigm (part 1), and, on the other hand, to rational and objective constraints of science in the conceptual frame of pluralism of truths - defined as a plural science entered into history (part 2). The research has therefore tempted to demonstrate that if the environmental juridical order, being a particularly open texture having considered its object, feeds consubstantially on scientific data, it is still intrinsically law ; a technique to manage social order, performative, able to orientate social and political choices, and to regulate environmental law thus specified has allowed us to "think" science on this mutating corpus in order to identify its contribution in positive law relating to the evaluation of its social ends. That is to say to measure the ability of law to integrate, by conceptualization, a truth different by nature of its own to legitimate an act of language open to the world
Makanga, Blanchard Vieillard-Baron Jean-Louis. "Questions morales et rapports de l'homme à la nature à partir de la morale stoïcienne réflexion philosophique sur l'environnement /." [Poitiers] : [I-médias], 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Makanga-Blanchard/2008-Makanga-Blanchard-These.pdf.
Full textLittle, Anna. "Du lieu à l'espace : transformations de l'environnement pictural en Italie centrale (XIIIe - XVe s.)." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2022/document.
Full textThis study exposes the key role played by the notion of "place" in the development of "modern pictorial space". We first establish that place and "anti-place" represent the two fundamental components of the thirteenth century pictorial environment and that these components are closely correlated to the notions of place and "anti-place" as they appear in contemporary theology, natural philosophy, mnemonic practices and politico-territorial organisation. We then study the causes and processes which lead the thirteenth century pictorial place to evolve and a new conception of the image to emerge. This new conception is characterised by two levels: onecomposed of material bodies, the other taking the form of an immaterial, rectilinear and regularstructure - structure which, while being identifiable as a direct derivative of pictorial place, isequally identifiable as a speculative model of real space
Gagnon, Dominique. "Le paysage et ses rapports avec l'art, la nature et l'environnement." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/38740.
Full textThis thesis in research/creation will develop in the research portion, how painting has played a major role in the evolution and formation of the concept of landscape in Western civilization, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. It will explain how landscape painting has contributed to our present fascination in the ‘picturesque’ landscape, and its representation. The evolution and transformation of the word ‘landscape’, which emerged simultaneously in several European languages during the Renaissance will be summarized. The various theories on the concept of landscape will be presented, and the concepts of ‘nature’ and ‘environment’ will be developed in relation to the landscape. The last part is dedicated to the body of work linked to this thesis. It expresses how the visual arts may now, as during the Renaissance and several centuries after, play a role in the reevaluation and re-creation of our relationship to nature, landscape and the environment.
Makanga, Blanchard. "Questions morales et rapports de l'homme à la nature à partir de la morale stoïcienne : réflexion philosophique sur l'environnement." Poitiers, 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Makanga-Blanchard/2008-Makanga-Blanchard-These.pdf.
Full textIn various fields, the contemporary society's troubles and problems call for new problematics and solutions. The technoscientific progress has become a so powerfull way of material transformation, that a new orientation of the human thinking as regarding the concept of nature must be found. The ecologic dangers at a planetary level being more and more evident, the technosciences and the ecology as a scientific discipline cannot solve the problem by themselves only. A philosophic approach, particularly in the ethic aspects, could contribute to constitute the Environnement as new studies object, in which the reason as a practice would be able to build without dogmatism a new conception of the relation between mankind and nature. Zeno of Citium and the stoïcian philosophy had provided an art of life for the ancient Greeks. In Zeno's conception, Nature was a rational whole which included most of the ethic realities. Such a rational whole was able to autoregulate itself and to guaranty its own coherence. Nowadays, the link between nature and reason never than ever requires consciousness and responsability, and probably new Rights as a statute for every living being and species. If the technoscience is for ever an human need, the human reason must be able to determine and lead the technoscientific activity in the best way on the ethic point of view
Flipo, Fabrice. "En quoi la crise environnementale contribue-t-elle à renouveler la question de la justice ? : Le cas du changement climatique." Compiègne, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002COMP1417.
Full textNeveu, Lily Pol. "Le droit à l'autodétermination des peuples autochtones et la protection de l'environnement : un conflit normatif?" Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25466/25466.pdf.
Full textDelord, Julien. "L'extinction d'espèce : histoire et enjeux éthiques d'un concept écologique." Paris 12, 2003. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990002110850204611&vid=upec.
Full textGlobal biodiversity is presently falling victim to a major extinction crisis, which also implicates a moral crisis for the human species. In this work, we attempt to understand the extent to what the extinction of species is a legitimate subject of moral concern and we consider which philosophical arguments are formulated to justify the protection of species. We also investigate the historical causes behind this delayed awareness of the ecological significance of extinction. Both the slow intellectual development of the idea of extinction thoughout human history and the scientific emergence of the concept are explained. Finally, we investigate the notion of extinction through the idea of individual death. We employ a comparative phenomenological and epistemological approach towards death and extinction, which leads us to expound an original solution to the isuue of nature conservation
Beau, Rémi. "Ethique de la nature ordinaire." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010668.
Full textSince the 1970s, environmental philosophy has been mainly concerned with the intrinsic value of nature and with the preservation of some rare and remarkable forms of nature which stand in remote areas, Influenced by the American classical idea of wilderness, which excludes humans from nature, environmental philosophers worked to elaborate intrinsic value theories of nature. By doing so, they suggested that nature had disappeared from the hum an inhabited world, i.e. from almost the whole Earth. Against this idea, I argue for nature being part of our societies. Humans and nature share a living mutual interdependence. Following this hypothesis, we will see how natural beings could be considered partners in most of our productive and reproductive activities, while we often act wrongly with these natural members of our communities. That's why there is a need for an ethics of everyday nature
Leseur, Alexia. "L'équité de l'allocation initiale de permis d'émission négociables de gaz à effet de serre à des entreprises : un éclairage du choix public par la philosophie morale et l'analyse économique." Phd thesis, Palaiseau, Ecole polytechnique, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EPXX0054.
Full textRoux, Guilhem. "Les théories modernes de la justice face au défi du développement durable : un essai de philosophie économique." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON10055/document.
Full textThree models of governance are actually dominating the contemporary research devoted to the environmental policies: a liberal model, which is founded on the auto regulatory processes of the market and the capacities of technical progress fostered by the regime of free enterprise ; an utilitarian model, which is based on the economic calculation of a social engineer, intervening on markets by enforcing taxes and quotas; a deliberative democracy model, which lies on the ability of common pool management by the populations, using deliberative mechanisms. Thus, what have been applied by now to the ecological stake are the theories of justice (liberalism, utilitarianism and deliberative democracy) and the institutions framework (the market, the central administration, the forum), coming for the Enlightenments. This works propose to examine if these models of governance are really adapted to the peculiarity of the sustainable development objective. We have first restored the fundamental axioms of these technics of government, in order to confront them, in a second time, to the specific problems raised by the ecological crisis. We show that those political paradigms have great difficulties to integrate the particular dimensions of sustainability, that is the preservation of the natural environment, the equity toward future generations, in our present context of a global industrial economy. This thesis exhibit the main concrete obstacle to the efficiency of the strategies of governance imagined so far and prepare us to create ones
Pigeon, Michel, and Michel Pigeon. "Représentations et raisons d'action d'anciens responsables politiques concernant les changements climatiques." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28032.
Full textLes grands défis environnementaux, particulièrement celui des changements climatiques, sont beaucoup plus sociaux que techniques, car c’est principalement notre mode de vie qui est en cause. Pouvons-nous effectuer les changements qui s’imposent ? Quelles sont les principales difficultés à vaincre ? Comment les gouvernements doivent-ils agir ? Pour contribuer à répondre à ces questions, nous avons choisi d’interviewer douze anciens ministres responsables des questions environnementales afin de comprendre les raisons de leur action, ainsi que les représentations qui les sous-tendent. Tant en France qu’au Québec, un ministre doit prendre en compte autant les perceptions et les représentations des citoyens que celles des différents groupes avec lesquels il est en contact (groupes de pression, lobbies, médias, élus locaux, etc.), de même que les objectifs du gouvernement et de son parti politique. Sa marge de manoeuvre est étroite, ce qui explique en bonne partie pouquoi les ministres que nous avons interrogés ont tous agi un peu de la même manière. Ils ont tous tenté de faire au mieux pour la protection de l’environnement et le bien-être de leurs concitoyens, mais sans trop bousculer leur mode de vie ni l’ordre établi, tout en étant généralement très conscients que les défis à relever vont demander très bientôt des décisions beaucoup plus difficiles. La sociologie politique explique que les décisions politiques dans nos sociétés démocratiques sont des constructions collectives d’acteurs en interaction, et confirme donc globalement les résultats de notre analyse. Les actions politiques des anciens ministres peuvent également être interprétés à la lumière des trois logiques de l’action décrites par François Dubet. Par ailleurs, dans une vision interactionniste, où la signification des objets est créée par l’interaction, l’action est difficile lorsque cette signification n’est pas la même pour les différents acteurs, et c’est ce que nos avons constaté pour les enjeux environnementaux à long terme qui sont perçus très différemment par les citoyens et les ministres.
The most important environmental challenges, particularly climate change, are much more social than technical, because it is mainly our way of life that is at the heart of the question. Can we make the necessary changes? What are the main difficulties to overcome? How should governments act? To help answer these questions, we chose to interview twelve former ministers responsible for environmental issues in order to understand the reasons for their actions, as well as the representations that underlie them. In both France and Quebec, a minister must take into account the perceptions and representations of citizens and those of the various groups with which he or she is in contact (lobby groups, media, local elected representatives, etc.), as well as the objectives of the government and those of his or her political party. The room for maneuver is narrow, which explains in large part why the ministers we interviewed all acted a little in the same way. They have all tried to do their best to protect the environment and the welfare of their fellow citizens, but without significantly affecting their way of life or the established order, while being generally aware that the challenges ahead will very soon require much more difficult decisions. Political sociology explains that political decisions in our democratic societies are collective constructions of actors in interaction, and thus confirms the results of our analysis. The political actions of former ministers can also be interpreted in the light of the three logics of action described by François Dubet. Moreover, from an interactionist point of view, where the meaning of objects is created by interaction, action is difficult when this meaning is not the same for different actors; this is what we have observed for long-term environmental issues that are perceived very differently by citizens and ministers.
The most important environmental challenges, particularly climate change, are much more social than technical, because it is mainly our way of life that is at the heart of the question. Can we make the necessary changes? What are the main difficulties to overcome? How should governments act? To help answer these questions, we chose to interview twelve former ministers responsible for environmental issues in order to understand the reasons for their actions, as well as the representations that underlie them. In both France and Quebec, a minister must take into account the perceptions and representations of citizens and those of the various groups with which he or she is in contact (lobby groups, media, local elected representatives, etc.), as well as the objectives of the government and those of his or her political party. The room for maneuver is narrow, which explains in large part why the ministers we interviewed all acted a little in the same way. They have all tried to do their best to protect the environment and the welfare of their fellow citizens, but without significantly affecting their way of life or the established order, while being generally aware that the challenges ahead will very soon require much more difficult decisions. Political sociology explains that political decisions in our democratic societies are collective constructions of actors in interaction, and thus confirms the results of our analysis. The political actions of former ministers can also be interpreted in the light of the three logics of action described by François Dubet. Moreover, from an interactionist point of view, where the meaning of objects is created by interaction, action is difficult when this meaning is not the same for different actors; this is what we have observed for long-term environmental issues that are perceived very differently by citizens and ministers.
Gagnon-Rocque, Ariane. "La peine en droit de l'environnement canadien : de la sanction dissuasive à une approche centrée sur la réparation de l'atteinte." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/22832.
Full textEn raison du peu de doctrine portant sur la pénologie environnementale canadienne, le présent mémoire visait d'abord à présenter le portrait du paysage juridique en cette matière. Ce faisant, il est rapidement apparu que la détermination de la peine en droit de l'environnement par les tribunaux canadiens souffrait de certaines lacunes, principalement au niveau de l'importance accordée à l'objectif pénologique de la dissuasion. Cet accent indu menant à l'imposition de sanctions pénales aussi inefficaces qu'ineffectives, une nouvelle approche devait être offerte aux tribunaux canadiens. Il s'agit donc du second objectif du présent mémoire. S'inspirant de la philosophie de la justice réparatrice, une approche centrée sur la réparation de l'atteinte découlant de la commission d'une infraction environnementale est proposée aux tribunaux canadiens afin que la peine imposée puisse s'avérer aussi efficace qu'effective et s'harmoniser au particularisme du droit de l'environnement.
Larroque, Claire. "La gestion des déchets par les sociétés industrielles au regard de la problématique environnementale : enjeux éthiques, sociaux et politiques." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H229.
Full textThis thesis aims at examining the ethical, social and political issues raised by waste management of industrialized societies. Philosophical analyses of waste management generally adopt a symbolic approach that tends, in one hand, to ignore political and social issues and, on the other hand, to disregard the human-nature relation since environmental issues of waste management are limited to technical sphere. Yet, I suggest that this dual approach must be criticized and question the idea that technicians should deal with the waste treatment while philosophers (or sociologists) should only considerer the symbolic significance. This work argues that waste management of industrialized societies is not only a technical issue since its continuously in relation with the social sphere and among other things raises issues of justice. In this regard, I support that the environmental issue caused by waste management can only be grasped if we assume a conception of nature as community: when wastes affect (unevenly) the environment in which people live, wastes also have an impact on the populations because people nurture interdependent relationship with their environment. Once this has been established, I demonstrate that a cultural vision of environmental inequalities should be defended in order to identify and determine normative principles of waste justice
Ould, Boye Isselmou. "Quelques traits caractéristiques de l'émergence d'une "hétérodoxie" : le cas de l'économie écologique." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010004.
Full textWe have examined in this work the conditions of the emergence of an heteradox praject in the history of economic thought. We highlight the pioneering raie of two important postwar economists: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994) and Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993) ln addition, we emphasize the uniqueness of the ecological "discourse" that underlies ecological economics by analyzing the dominant ecosystem paradigm in the field of ecolog after the Second World War. Ultimately, this work represents an important highlight on the prehistory of current Ecological Economies
Thoisy, Eric de. "La maison du cyborg : apprendre, transmettre, habiter un monde numérique." Thesis, Paris 8, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA080019.
Full textThe digital context, understood as both a technical and a cultural phenomenon, produces new relationships to knowledge. The “bookish” paradigm of transmission is being challenged by documentary practices enabling the user to take hold of an uncompleted knowledge structure. Within this framework, there is a strong need for reevaluating physical buildings conceived for learning.The situation can be apprehended by looking at the interactions between architecture and computer sciences during the last decades. Architecture was taken as a model to build the virtual environment and, most importantly, we believe that the historical responsibility of architecture – taking charge of memory – was displaced towards (computer) architecture. But this shift does not replicate the pattern of « the theater of memory » that organizes the transfer of a set of predetermined meanings into the mind of a sedentary inhabitant. Instead, incoming models foster movement and learning.The hypothesis of a « digital caesurae » requires then a further reading : the problematic needs to be rephrased within the computational framework built by Alan Turing. We have chosen to embed our argument into Ludwig Wittgenstein’s logical system in order to disclose the main features of the computational thinking : renewed relations between thinking and calculating, between human and machine. Learning relies on a new kind of balance between the logical model and the use we make of it. Most of all, we will focus on the shift of the concept of meaning, from an explicit existence to an implicit one : this may constitute a relevant « foundation » to build hypotheses for a digital thinking of architecture
Laval, Fabienne. "Impacts de l'environnement sur la peau des sportifs de haut niveau : vers une écologie corporelle du paraitre des sensations et des techniques." Thesis, Normandie, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017NORMR017.
Full textFrench people are 45% to practice 2 hours of sport by week, until they are 90% to consume sport’s images. The high level athlete unified those two ways of sports being. Our hypothesis is that athlete’s skin tells a lot about our environments and embodiments. Skin symbolize ways of dwelling the world, a body ecology witch this thesis try to understand. Athlete skin is a resilience process that confers to them their exceptional properties. Skin athletes is also an embodiment support for the sport marketing and the transmedia who appropriates skins biological and psychological functions.It’s also a forgotten ecosystem revealing by postmodern paradigm founded on shiver and aesthetics theories. To analyze those mutation we have worked on several data:- Bibliometric enquiry on high level athlete skins- Biography and documentary on sports champions- 76 record from high level athletes- 200 publicities- Global data on celebrities of sport
Mannisi, Alban. "La médiation environnementale en aménagement du territoire dans la société civile au Japon : pour une philosophie politique du paysage." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100027.
Full textSince the 1970s, international conventions have reinforced the involvement of civil societies in the development of their territories. In Japan, this phenomenon was accelerated further to the Kōbe earthquake in 1995. In 1998, it led to the NPO (Non Profitable Organization), which consolidated the role of civil society in the stakeholders' territory. This thesis analyzes the mechanisms of civil society engagement and the use of mediators who rely on the specific relation between Japanese society and its environment (Japanese milieu), and investigates the emergence of new forms of territorial governance. In order to answer this problematic, we first study the emergence of the role of civil society through mediation in territorial planning in Japan, showing how these phenomena are partly based on certain logics, but also on international developments. Then, from the study of three practices of mediators of social engineering: KUWAKO Toshio (Philosopher), YAMAZAKI Ryō (Landscape Architect) and KOIZUMI Hideki (Urban Planner), it is observed how the techniques of mediations inspired part of foreign techniques are assimilated and readjusted to meet the needs of Japanese society. This thesis explains the porosity between autochthony and the transfer of methods of international governance. It highlights how the international will to involve civil societies is part of the logic of the Japanese milieu. In conclusion, an attempt to put into perspective the data of the thesis is sought from the statement of a political philosophy of landscape
Priaulet, Isabelle. "Pour une ontologie de l'écologie. Penser les fondements philosophiques de la conversion écologique." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR146.
Full textThis thesis is an attempt to provide the philosophical foundations for an ecological conversion while revealing the ontological aspects of the ecological crisis. Following the path described in the Laudato Si’ encyclical letter, where Pope François launches a vibrant call for ecological conversion, the author seeks to adress the philosophical issues in relation to this notion. Refering to philosophers such as Heidegger and Hans Jonas, the first part of this research accounts for the necessity of a true ecological conversion to face the metaphysical « peril » represented by the technical way of mind which leads to an unauthentic « being-in-the-world ». As catastrophism rages, the author underlines the humanistic aspect of its founders’ thought (Gûnther Anders, Jacques Ellûl) while confronting their vision to Ernst Bloch’s « Principle of Hope ».The second chapter of the thesis aims at laying down the ethical and religious foundations of the concept of conversion. From Plato’s metanoia to stoïcian and epicurian soul therapies, the author explores the importance of the knowledge of nature (physis) in the process of epistrophè (return to one’s « Inner Self »). Can these therapies be considered as the roots of a true ecological conversion throughout which we could not only modify the way we look at nature but also be transformed by it? If the answer is yes, what would the terms be? From this perspective, what is the specificity of Christian metanoia compared to Plato’s? To what extent can the doctrine of the “spiritual senses” experienced by both the Franciscan mystic and the neptical Fathers’ « Prayer of the heart » - be considered a crucial step to a living experience of ecological conversion that appeals to our body and heart? To carry out this research, the author relies on the phenomenological methodology, evidencing the links between conversion and reduction.The last part, more specifically dedicated to modern ecology, relies on the definitions of ecological conversion outlined with greek and Christian authors to think through a deep change in our « affect for the world ». Refering to Merleau Ponty’s notions of « flesh of the word » and « wild being », the author endeavours to develop the concept of “universal empathy” as the corner stone of environmental ethics. Through a merleau-pontian interpretation of two major ecological schools of thought, wilderness and deep ecology, the thesis provides tools for elaborating a relational ontology based on two concepts. The first one, called deepening of the Self, refers to the wilderness. The author shows that what has to be preserved is not only territories such as natural reserves but the “wild being” in the innermost part of ourselves so as to enable us to be transformed by nature itself through this experience of wilderness described by famous authors such as Henri-David Thoreau in Walden life in the woods… The second one, called “enlargment of the Self” refers to the experience described by Arne Naess as identification to other living beings as a source of self-realization, echoing the merleau-pontian “flesh of the word”.Aware of the limits of western thought to reach this universal empathy based on non-duality, the author points out, in a conclusive paragraph, the influence of the buddhist way of mind on Arne Naess’s deep ecology, explores a spirituality of the resonance with the world through zen buddhism embodied by Master Dogen, and goes as far as thinking an “echology of Joy”
Poulin, Anick. "La responsabilité humaine en environnement : l'exemple des forêts boréales du Québec." Thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/23596/23596.pdf.
Full textChevalier, Ludovic. "Le contractualisme international : défis, portée et limites d’un cadre théorique." Rennes 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008REN1PH01.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate on which bases the question of international contractualism has to be thought. The first part offers a historical perspective. The second part consists of the study of two major works : A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls, and Morals By Agreement, by David Gauthier. These works are examined in the light of authors who took a stand in the debate and focus on the concept of social contract. The debate is then taken up from a cosmopolitan point of view, of which Charles Beitz is one of the most eminent figures. After establishing that the interests of states and individuals cannot be properly handled in an international situation that approximates the state of nature, the concluding chapter explains that in the context of major environmental risks caused by humanity, an adequate contractualist approach provides the needed answers
André, Pierre. "La justice climatique : idéal philosophique, échec international et métamorphoses cosmopolitiques." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=http://theses.paris-sorbonne.fr/2020SORUL064.pdf.
Full textClimate change raises profound moral problems, among which the issue of justice is paramount due to the severity of inequalities both in vulnerability and causal responsibility. As major philosophical theories turn out to be unsuited to account for global, intergenerational and environmental matters, theories of climate justice have been developed since the early 1990s to address these issues, in parallel with efforts to build international climate governance. With particular focus on interpreting the “common but differentiated responsibilities” norm, philosophers have designed various theoretical frameworks and principles to account for the fair distribution of mitigation and adaptation duties. However, as it has become increasingly obvious, international governance has failed to implement fair and efficient climate policies, and so have theories of climate justice. Still, climate justice ideals are more relevant than ever. In order to further them, theories must go beyond a purely ideal and international conception of climate justice and embrace a non-ideal, cosmopolitan and multiscalar approach. Such a paradigm shift illuminates recent metamorphoses of climate justice narratives to include questions of individual responsibility, fair transition at national and local levels, and loss and damage
Rodriguez, Laura. "Savoir agir avec la nature : entre écologie scientifique, valeurs collectives et conceptions du monde." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTG069/document.
Full textIn the current regime of ecological crisis, one generally expects actions and decisions about environmental issues to be enlighten by scientific knowledge. The aim of this thesis is to challenge this view by investigating how ecological knowledge and actions on nature are linked. I propose to study the interweaving between ecological knowledge, collective values and conceptions of nature in documents related to three types of actions (conservation in a nature reserve, environmental impact assessment, and ecological restoration). I lean on a field study where these actions are embodied, the plain of Crau (Bouches-du-Rhône, France). First, I examine how different types of ecological knowledge are translated in (and are influenced in return by) specific actions. I show that, in addition to the practical constraints of any action, this mutual relation is shaped by scientific cultural dynamics, as well as historical trajectories of these knowledges and actions. Then, I explain how the need to guarantee both credibility and legitimacy create an inherent tension in environmental actions. Finally, I explore how knowledge is based on preconceptions about our relationships with nature, and lead to specific ways of acting. From these insights, I suggest some trails to know and act differently with nature in the context of current ecological issues
Kim, Do Hoon. "Lieux symboliques et modernisation de la nature en Corée : une approche mésologique en aménagement et en urbanisme." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0144.
Full textThis research emphasizes the rhythm of the mesological way taking place in the proper milieu of a society that is to say that of the trajectivitie. It’s along the mesological way or in the trajectivitie that the ecological value and the symbolic value unite, and yet the physical order and the phenomenal order intersect. The concept of mesological way leads us to reflect on the environmental determinism and the mechanistic modem, where the extend land is not considered as a living and concrete place, but as an inert and abstract space. Therefore, this research is to consider the establishment of a human dwelling place, where we recall that we should take into account the mesological view of all residential environment. Especially since it is based the special meaning that people ascribe to nature and space. This meaning contributes to their well being vital. It has become the main motive of an urban transformation. This meaning is changing gradually with the "mesological taken" of a milieu in human society. It is no different from the indefinite extension of an imaginary relationship with nature and space. That is to say that it is following of a process trajection
Wells, Jennifer. "Complexité et changement climatique : une étude épistémologique des théories de la complexité transdisciplinaires et leur apport aux phénomènes socio-écologiques." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040136/document.
Full textThis dissertation presents an epistemological analysis of complexity theories, an evaluation of their contribution, both generally and to specific domains, and a demonstration of their important contribution to climate change. The objective is to provide a description of complexity theories across the whole range of disciplines, as complexity theories continue to expand and the list of their proposed benefits continue to grow. The case study of climate change is rich, as it touches on a number of complex systems of primary significance to humanity, such as agriculture, energy, water, and the economy. The present work proposes first a definition of generalized complexity, comprised of a general framework of the field based upon six major categories. It proceeds to analyze, in light of this framework, the scientific, ethical and political dimensions of climate change. Our point of departure consists in a thorough examination of three important bodies of literature: the IPCC report “Climate Change 2007,” the “Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,” and the ethics of climate change. The dissertation shows that the use of complexity theories is necessary in order to measure in a rigorous manner the contribution, not only of the multiple aspects of different complex systems involved, but also of the framework as an ensemble, with its polyvalent signification. By examining the role and the utility of complexity theories in multiple fields at multiple scales, we reveal a series of key principles regarding the nature and usage of these theories
Allik, Amel. "La construction de la crise environnementale. Thèmes, stratégies et représentations." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA038.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the construction of the environmental crisis through the flow of environmental discourses. We define the environmental crisis as a range of physical, social and discursive manifestations that are related to the Environment. They are caused by the separation of Man and nature, a relationship that derives from the Hellenistic concept of phusis. These manifestations oscillate between disruptions and uncertainties on the one hand, and on the other, the research of solutions whose objective is to find a new balance. The environmental crisis is composed of a set of public problems, as well as of numerous issues that have yet to be problematized or publicized in the public sphere. Through the careful study of some of environmental crisis discourses, we were able to examine these public problems and non-publicized issues as a wholeness. We analyzed a corpus of French and international environmental law foundation texts and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports, and reconstructed some of the contents of this crisis. As we had three research objectives, we combined three methods of analysis. The first, a quantitative method, allowed us to define the themes of the environmental crisis. The objective of the second, a qualitative discourse analysis method, was to identify and describe the different strategies used by the different issuers of both institutional texts and CSR reports. Finally, narrative and cultural semiotics facilitated the comprehension of the organization of environmental representations, by reconstructing the underlying narratives behind the environmental crisis discourses
Presler, Eléonore. "La cohérence du sujet en éthique environnementale: J. B. Callicott vu par le prisme de la théorie intégrale de K. Wilber." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209164.
Full textJ'utilise pour cela comme outil heuristique la théorie intégrale de Ken Wilber, et mets à profit une série d'analyses et de concepts novateurs inscrits dans une post-métaphysique intégrale, afin de proposer une voie de dépassement au dualisme inhérent à l'axiologie de Callicott et d'équilibrer son approche foncièrement matérielle de l'ontologie morale et du soi relationnel par et au sein d'un holisme intégral (extérieur et intérieur). Celui-ci repose sur la ré-introduction des intériorités du monde :le holisme n'est en effet pas simplement un multiplexe de relations internes entre surfaces matérielles mais également, et nécessairement, le multiplexe des relations intérieures qui co-constituent toute entité, tout holon.
Un holon désigne un tout-partie – à la fois entièreté persistante en relation avec d'autres entièretés et partie constituante d'une entièreté plus profonde – qui possède donc intrinsèquement une dimension individuelle et une dimension collective. Celles-ci se doublent de dimensions extérieures (aspects du holon accessibles à l'observation par les sens physiques ou leurs extensions) et intérieures (aspects du holon qui échappent à l'observation matérielle et requièrent, pour leur appréhension, dialogue et interprétation).
Je préconise d'intégrer aux notions de sujet et de valeur intrinsèque ces quatre dimensions co-constitutives de tout holon, irréductibles les unes aux autres, et nécessairement impliquées pour tout référent. L'intersubjectivité, littéralement intrinsèque à tout rapport au monde comme à tout référent, en elle-même irréductible à des composantes matérielles, représente le dépassement des dualismes modernes en même temps que la ré-introduction en propre de l'intériorité inhérente du monde. Atomisme et holisme sont transcendés en une approche intégrale qui réinscrit, en regard des relations internes entre surfaces matérielles, les relations intérieures qui les agencent. Par le biais de la théorie intégrale de Wilber, je propose donc de réconcilier l'axiologie de Callicott et sa théorie de la valeur intrinsèque de la nature avec un cadre de pensée postmoderne réhabilitant les intériorités du vivant.
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Considering it necessary to articulate and to ground an understanding of the intrinsic value of nature, and finding that Callicott's proposals for adjusting his modern subjective axiology to a postmodern framework fall short on several accounts, I set about to rethink and reexamine his notions of subject and intrinsic value so as to have them integrate not only the ecological-quantic invalidation of the modern subject-object dichotomy but also some prominent features of postmodern thought :contextualism, constructivism, and, following those, aperspectivism (intenability of unduly privileging a single perspective).
To this end, I make use of Ken Wilber's Integral Theory as a heuristic tool and take advantage of several innovative analysis and concepts, set in the context of an integral post-metaphysics, in order to suggest a way of transcending the dualism inherent to Callicott's axiology whilst allowing for the fundamentally material conception of his moral ontology and relational self to be balanced by and within an integral holism (exterior and interior). This means re-introducing the world's interiorities :holism isn't simply about a multiplex of internal relations between material surfaces but also, and necessarily, about the multiplex of interior relations that are co-constitutive of any entity, of any holon.
A holon designates a whole-part – both a persisting entirety or whole involved in relations with other entities and a constitutive part of deeper wholes – that intrinsically possesses an individual and a collective dimension. These are both further comprised of exterior (aspects of the holon that are accessible to observation by the physical senses or their extensions) and interior (aspects of the holon that evade material observation and require, for their apprehension, a dialogue and interpretation) dimensions.
Intersubjectivity, which is literally intrinsic both to any relation with the world and to the co-creation of any referent, and is in itself irreducible to whatever material component, appears as the fundamental overcoming of modernity's dualisms. Concurrently, a holonic understanding of the notions of subject and of intrinsic value is recommended, such that the main constitutive and irreducible dimensions of any holon become foundational to both these notions. Atomism and holism are transcended into an integral approach that acknowledges the interior relations prominent in giving agency and meaning to the various internal relations between material surfaces focused on by Callicott. Through Wilber's Integral Theory, I thus suggest the means of reconciling Callicott's axiology and theory of the intrinsic value of nature with a postmodern framework that rehabilitates life's interiorities.
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Couturier, Florian. "Les implications morales du darwinisme : une lecture de l'oeuvre de James Rachels." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENP002/document.
Full textJames Rachels' ethics, which he will finally present as a « multiple strategies utilitarianism », reconciles maximisation of global welfare on Earth and attention for the variety of elements which compose it. Furthermore, the moral judgement is related to the relevant characteristics of the individuals who are involved, in view of the considered treatment, not the species of which they belong. According to such Moral Individualism, the benefit of moral considerations will depend, not of developed mental faculties only, but of a variety of capacities, such as sensibility, which many animals have. Through this, the author opposes, more fundamentally, the tendency in ethics to define a priori limits to the beings which are likely to benefit from moral considerations for themselves (moral patients). These limits are generally associated with capacities such as rationality or sensibility – any existing being beyond this “frontier” having a lesser value or being reduced to a mere thing. For Rachels, however, moral status cannot depend on a unique characteristic with general scope: rather, it should be admitted that there is a variety of relevant criteria for a variety of circumstances. It is in the context of this reflection about the moral considerability of natural objects, besides his work on euthanasia, that the author publishes Created from Animals: the Moral Implications of Darwinism (1990). “Darwinism” shall be understood here both as a thought close to Darwin's in his days and informed of the last progresses in our understanding of species evolution, where natural selection plays a key role: ideas of changingness, gradualness and contingency are succeeding to an organized and finalized world where man has special value, and to the essentialist understanding of species. The point is nothing more than to ensure, on a global coherence of knowledge model (naturalism inspired by W.O. Quine), of the compatibility of the philosophical thinking with our most complete understanding of the origins of life. But now, after Darwin, rather than sharp breaks among species, we discover a complex pattern of resemblances as well as differences that reflect common ancestry. Such a biological continuism, if not proving its falsity, is undermining the basis of the “logic of frontiers” on the ethical field, that is to say, of this strategy which consists in justifying entirely different schemes of treatment for individuals belonging to distinct species by putting forward a radical difference in nature. This crucial argument makes stronger indeed the discourse in favour of animals, notably the argument from “marginal cases”. But we can see through this that animal ethics itself is likely to reproduce an anthropocentric bias: while extended to sentient beings, moral status remains associated with a unique characteristic that man is all the more likely to value since he experiences it intimately. This extensionnist approach, then, is nothing else than recreating new criteria of exclusion, which now we can suspect of being arbitrary. For P. Taylor or H. Rolston, indeed, a respectful attitude toward life in general is nothing like an absurdity. We should be able to consider then, in the wake of Rachels' thought, not to restrict the moral community to the sentient faculty only. And we should consider the possibility of putting an end to the expansion movement of the moral community observed throughout the centuries, not with another frontier, but in contemplating the dissolution of all frontiers. Do not consider anything of what belongs to the biosphere only as a resource, and be prepared to develop toward any being a respectful relationship in alignment with its real properties, taking into account the entirety of the circumstances: this would be the principle of an “everything ethics”
Milon, Pauline. "Analyse théorique du statut juridique de la nature." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0051.
Full textThis thesis questions the legal status of nature through a theoretical analysis. Reflecting on the status of nature is tantamount to questioning the singularity of the link between man and nature: is it a relationship that induces a scale of value with a subsequent hierarchy, or rather a relationship without hierarchy but with links of interdependence? Eventually, the idea is the idea is to escape from a dualistic logic separating man from nature. Nature is first reified by law. Object of law, defined by and for men, nature is considered as a thing, a good or an heritage. But this thesis is above all the observation of an evolution of the status of nature which can no longer be considered today only as an object. The socio-political evolution accompanies a movement aiming at the progressive subjectivization of nature. A rebalancing then occurs, "desacralizing" man as he persists in cutting himself from the rest of nature
Favard, Maxime. "Manières de faire le projet et manières de faire des mondes." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAC033/document.
Full textThis research is part of a study in design on the multiplicity of ways in project management. The word « manner », with its Greco-Latin origins from « mania » to « manuarius » inclines us to take it as « skilful folly ». This meaning allows us to question the various « manners to conduct the design project » as gap practices. Thus, we are invited to explore the field of divergent polarities in a discipline made of breaches and guidance. This aporia leads us to consider a necessary dogmatic passage. From singularities to unicity rather than from universality to unity, this research is constructed on the assumption of a common purpose: make the world through manners of making worlds.The analysis of a few projects related to multiplicity leads us to bring out the tension between design and the environment. Taking a critical stance toward projections evoking the idea of a « centering and separating » paradigm, this research questions afterwards its inversion through « de-centering and de-separating » values
Rouliere, Camille. "Visions of Waters in Lower Murray Country." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC014/document.
Full textWaters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines both the serious absence and devastating overabundance of water: rising sea levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of prolonged drought. As we increasingly pollute, canalise and desalinate waters, the ambiguous nature of our relationship with these entities becomes visible. And, while we continue to damage what most sustains us, collective precarity grows. It is therefore unsurprising that shifting our understanding, and subsequent use, of water has been described as one of the biggest—and most pressing—challenges of our time.My research answers to this challenge. It centres on spatial poetics, that is, on the manner in which people engage and interact with their environment through art. More precisely, I explore the relationships between humans, waters and sound—both intrinsic and human-produced—in Lower Murray Country (South Australia). My aim is to unveil, theorise and create maps of these co-evolving relationships to reveal an array of manners to perceive and relate to these waters; and then draw on this plurality to question—and potentially reimagine—their cultural construction and representation. In order to do so, I transform waters into a leitmotif which enables me to weave my investigation together and move in-between theoretical and physical spaces to bring people and their environments into dialogue, both at the local and global levels. In particular, I draw on the watery movements of flow and resonance to operate this weaving, and associate these with rhythmanalysis and resounding (after philosophers Henri Lefebvre and Fran Dyson, respectively). I am also inspired by the work of philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant and use his concept of Relation as a key to enable me to translate these watery movements textually.I apply this aqueous theoretical frame to nearly two centuries of sonic production—ranging from Ngarrindjeri performance and colonial ballads through to contemporary classical music and sound art; and to nearly two centuries of evolution in the sonic character of Lower Murray Country’s waters—ranging from disfiguring deforestation and damming through to rising salinity and irrigation. As such, this thesis is built on the “accumulation of examples” advocated by Glissant (Poetics of Relation 172-4). It is structured around four sections—four punctiform visions of waters written as a prelude to a potential infinity of others. Furtive, partial, oriented and fragmented, these visions denote times of particular significance: times open to challenge; times of hinges and articulations where radical alteration (can) occur
Benois, Élodie. "Une éthique descriptive de la ville au regard des éthiques de l'environnement : le cas du projet Imaginer-Réaliser Montréal 2025." Thèse, 2009. http://constellation.uqac.ca/170/1/030112156.pdf.
Full textDansereau-Laberge, François Olivier. "Libéralisme et développement durable : un examen de leur compatibilité philosophique." Mémoire, 2010. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3836/1/M11939.pdf.
Full textBonenfant, Claudie. "Le statut éthique et juridique de la nature : la contribution de Hans Jonas et ses prolongements en droit." Mémoire, 2006. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3524/1/M9401.pdf.
Full textChoinière-Lapointe, Pierrick. "Constructivisme et capacité internationale des États fédérés : l'exemple de la participation du Québec au régime de protection des Grands Lacs." Mémoire, 2008. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/1690/1/M10610.pdf.
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