L'écologie, Confucius et la démocratie

Gaffric, Gwennaël; Heurtebise, Jean‐Yves

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“…(Chow 2000) The green (self-)Orientalist narrative of Chinese Ecological Civilization is both a way to put the blame for environmental degradation on the culture of the Other (associated with industrial modernization) and to produce an exotic alternative for a Western audience by encapsulating heterogenous classic texts into an attractive sino-packaging. And there is no denying of the fact that it convinced some Western scholars, as evidenced by Scott Slovic's statement (Gaffric and Heurtebise 2013):…”

Section: Ecological Civilization and Green Self-orientalismmentioning

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Green Orientalism, Brown Occidentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization

Heurtebise

2023

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Among the many things the Anthropocene is changing about human ways to live and think, one can include our understanding of human cultures and of their relations. Facing the Anthropocene and its diverse manifestations (climate change and rising temperatures, biodiversity loss and oceans acidification, etc.), there is a strong temptation to resort to predefined cultural assumptions to provide ready-made narratives of guilty scapegoats and unlikely saviours satisfying our religious need for radical alternatives and our exotic craving for deep otherness. This essay aims to critically analyse the various attempts to culturalize the Anthropocene with a focus on Green Orientalism and Brown Occidentalism—as we will coin the different culturalist narratives surrounding the notion of “Chinese Ecological Civilization”. Our goal is to promote the idea that the ubiquity of ecological issues calls for the Transculturality of Environmentalism. To achieve such a task, the deconstruction of the “onto-culturalism” of contemporary sinology is necessary.

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Section: Ecological Civilization and Green Self-orientalismmentioning

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Green Orientalism, Brown Occidentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization

Heurtebise

2023

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Dynamic Change Analysis and Forecast of Forestry-based Industrial Structure in China Based on Grey Systems Theory

Zhang

Yuan

2019

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

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Environmental philosophy in Asia: Between eco-orientalism and ecological nationalisms

Droz,

Fricke,

Heroor

et al. 2024

Environmental Values

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Environmental philosophy – broadly conceived as using philosophical tools to develop ideas related to environmental issues – is conducted and practised in highly diverse ways in different contexts and traditions in Asia. ‘Asian environmental philosophy’ can be understood to include Asian traditions of thought as well as grassroots perspectives on environmental issues in Asia. Environmental issues have sensitive political facets tied to who has the legitimacy to decide about how natural resources are used. Because of this, the works, practices, and researchers in Asian environmental philosophy are exposed to being (mis)used by diverse stakeholders and actors to support political ends not related to environmental sustainability. Two processes are at play at the nexus of the construction of identities in relation to conceptualisations of nature: eco-orientalism and ecological nationalisms. This paper analyzes and exemplifies these dynamics through a conceptual framework that distinguishes ideological and socio-technical explanations of environmental degradation. Finally, to minimise the risks of political misuse, five pathways are presented to carefully help curate environmental, philosophical statements: contextualise, quantify uncertainty and ‘uniqueness’, downscale, confront claims with local realities and literature, and collaborate with researchers from other disciplines. Conjointly, these pathways aim at favouring intercultural collaboration while valuing diversity, thus supporting the development and exchanges in environmental philosophy in Asia and beyond.

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L'écologie, Confucius et la démocratie

Cited by 7 publications

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Green Orientalism, Brown Occidentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization

Green Orientalism, Brown Occidentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization

Dynamic Change Analysis and Forecast of Forestry-based Industrial Structure in China Based on Grey Systems Theory

Environmental philosophy in Asia: Between eco-orientalism and ecological nationalisms

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