DISSIDENCE world ecosophy shift

The relationship between human beings and their environment has become an increasingly critical subject of reflection as this connection has progressively weakened over the past centuries. Since the Western Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, societies have undergone a process of gradual disengagement from their natural, social, and urban environments—whose impacts are now deeply felt in everyday life.
Thus, numerous studies have emerged since the early twentieth century, a period marked by the flourishing of the social sciences such as anthropology, ethnography, and psychology. In the twenty-first century, Environmental Humanities have further advanced this body of knowledge by deepening and critically reassessing disciplines that were too often developed within privileged, educated Western societies—nowadays referred to as the Global North.
This pedagogy seeks to deepen understanding of the diverse movements in cognitive knowledge and contemporary epistemologies worldwide that address relationships between humans and their human / non-human environments across the multiple disciplines of the Built Environment. It draws on recent studies while also engaging with the revitalization of ancient and generic knowledge systems, demonstrating their continued relevance despite their historical marginalization by dominant modes of thought. Through this lens, the course examines how distinct environments and milieus give rise to different cultural landscapes and pluriverse cognitive(s), while also revealing shared foundational principles through which these perspectives intersect.