Penser globalement, agir localement : une maxime pour l’écologie politique ?
‘Think global, act local’? An appropriate expression of the 1970s when the environmental crisis was taking on a planetary scale, this formula gradually lost some of its pertinence. Certainly, the global took on more importance and it was on a global level that scientists met and politicians debated....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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2023
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Recherches de science religieuse
Year: 2023, Volume: 111, Issue: 2, Pages: 343-356 |
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| Summary: | ‘Think global, act local’? An appropriate expression of the 1970s when the environmental crisis was taking on a planetary scale, this formula gradually lost some of its pertinence. Certainly, the global took on more importance and it was on a global level that scientists met and politicians debated. However, on top of revealing its limits (sounding the alarm but giving no guide for action), this extreme globalisation tended to obscure local actions, making them appear negligable, although they are truly there - multiple, lively and inventive. In order to move beyond the chiasm between a terrifying globality and dispersed localisms, we need to re-examine these notions of global and local. This is more a matter of not seeing them as opposites, but rather distinguishing two sorts of globalisation, one that homogenises diversity of givens in a pre-existing globality inherited from the space and time of the Galileo-Newtonians, and the other that we can term ‘mondialisation’, corresponding to the ensemble of processes through which life forms, be they human or non-human, possess ties to one another on the basis of interactions and dependencies occurring locally. The ‘mondial’ can only be grasped through the local, that is, mobililsations and actions under way to make the Earth inhabitble, on the condition that they are multiplied and linked. |
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| ISSN: | 2104-3884 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Recherches de science religieuse
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3917/rsr.232.0343 |