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Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics - John W. Head

Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics

Global Cultural Reforms for a Natural-Systems Agriculture

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Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-62219-0 (ISBN)
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Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work focuses on the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today’s a modern extractive agriculture to a sustainable natural‐systems agriculture.
Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work reveals the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today’s modern extractive agricultural system to a sustainable natural‐systems agriculture.

In order to provide an imaginative foundation on which to build such a cultural transformation, the author draws on the oldest and most pervasive pair of literary works in the Western canon: the Iliad and the Odyssey. He uses themes from those foundational literary works to critique the concept of state sovereignty and to explain how innovative federalism structures around the world already show momentum building toward changes in global environmental governance. The book proposes a dramatic expansion on those innovations, to create eco‐states responsible for agroecological management. Drawing from many years of experience in international institutions, the author proposes a system of coordination by which an international agroecology‐focused organization would simultaneously (i) avoid the shortcomings of the world’s current family of powerful global institutions and (ii) help create and implement a reformed system of local landscape‐based agriculture wholly consistent with ecological principles. Acknowledging the difficulty of achieving reforms such as these, the author suggests that a new cultural‐conceptual narrative can be constructed drawing on values set forth 2,700 years ago in the Homeric epics. He explains how these values can be reimagined to drive forward our efforts in addressing today’s the climate and agricultural crises in ways that reflect, not reject, the natural processes and relationships that make the Earth a living planet.

This book will be of great interest to students, academics and policymakers addressing issues of agrarian values, environmental and agricultural law, environmental restoration, agroecology, and global institutional reform.

John W. Head is Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, USA. Previously, he worked for ten years in legal practice. He is the author of several books on international and comparative law, including Global Legal Regimes to Protect the World’s Grasslands (2012), Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective (2014), International Law and Agroecological Husbandry (2016), Global Business Law: Principles and Practice of International Commerce and Investment (2018), and A Global Corporate Trust for Agroecological Integrity (2019).

1. Orientation: the challenge and the project 2. The Iliad, the Odyssey, Agriculture, and Climate Change 3. Achilles: mênis, kleos, and aristeia 4. Agroecological husbandry: new roots for agriculture 5. Homo sapiens nobilus: trustees for the athanatoi 6. Eco-states and anthro-states: new roots for sovereignty 7. Odysseus: mêtis, nostos, and polútropos 8. Gaia, gods, governance, and xenia: creating a new epic 9. Detour: Beyond the Greeks, beyond the West 10. Moira: What is the (agroecological) fate of our godlike species?

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Earthscan Food and Agriculture
Zusatzinfo 1 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 439 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 0-367-62219-X / 036762219X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-62219-0 / 9780367622190
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