Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics: Global Cultural Reforms for a Natural-Systems Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9780367622190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 204 str.

John W. Head

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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).