Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary World

• In Event: 067 - Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology Roundtables (one-hour)
  In Refereed Roundtable: Table 05. Constructing Nature

Abstract

The global approaches towards the democracy involve analyzes of intersection of contemporary ecological problems, social system, and gender problem. The juxtaposed nationalism results in ethnocentrism, sexual racism, ethnical racism (Vlaisavljević 2009, 179-209). Environmental nationalism as a project rejects all three forms of discrimination proposing the idea of supranational and transnational unions based on need for ecological problems solution. Therefore the borders of nation-states should be moved towards the wider areas of bioregional cooperation and communal care for climate changes. These ideas are presented in already mentioned IPCC work of transnational team of experts. Sociologist Daniel Archibugi thinks that social system has become more of a sociological idea than it is a legal question. Cosmopolitan democracy, as Archibugi's concepts represents the democracy in which the cosmopolitan ideas should be promoted together with the idea of joint strategy for solution of contemporary ecological problems, besides of all, climate changes. Ecofeminist Eislar Rian in her work Ecofeminist manifesto (1987) holds that the social system of Minoan period of rule on Greek island Crete, was the only true democracy. The Athenian democracy, was the rule of free aristocratic males, women and slaves (man and women of other color) were marginalized and excluded from public sphere. Only free males were subject to obligation of public speeches as a mark of true citizen. Patricia Shipley holds that Aristotle's scripts on social system represent the origin of misogyny and subordination of women.

Author

• Lejla Mušić, University of Sarajevo