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Shaping the Noosphere: Geoethical values and spiritual resistance in Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia, Spain
Author(s) -
Francesc Bellaubí
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
resistances. journal of the philosophy of history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2737-6222
DOI - 10.46652/resistances.v2i3.38
Subject(s) - materialism , praxis , environmental ethics , sociology , resistance (ecology) , technocracy , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , political science , politics , ecology , law , biology
The concept of the Noosphere is of great importance when looking at the values underpinning the technocratic artifacts and technocracies (human physical technological objects and knowledge processes) by which Humans relate to the Geosphere through other human beings. In this sense, the Noosphere may inform geoethics as an environmental, social, and spiritual praxis and thinking aiming at ecological justice. The concept of the Noosphere represents the coexistence and coevolution of Humans and the Geosphere, overcoming the dichotomy between instrumental materialistic and intrinsic ecocentric values but considering the meaning of a constitutive dimension. Thus, the Noosphere becomes a concept for reconnection with the human community, the natural world, and the Divine, and develops into an ecological mysticism that, in turn, unfolds in resistance in hope as a kind of spiritual activism. The theoretical framework is illustrated with the case study of the Terres de L’Ebre in Catalonia (Spain).

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