ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the ecological demos as a positive construction that attempts to fill in some of the space left from the deconstruction. It attempts to link the deconstruction of modernity, globalism, and economism in the force of the counter-movement as it threatens the stability of life on earth to the construction of some alternatives. It elaborates on ecological demos which support an open but evaluative epistemology, an open but not universalizing ethic of others, and a defense against commodification and enclosure of the commons. Inasmuch as modernism lives and breathes off of the science versus politics dualism, ecological sciences are moving into a new paradigm of knowledge making and values. To create ecological demos, it is clear that need a more inclusive epistemology that escapes Plato's Cave and the dualisms that establish Western positivism. Effective and just global governance must be able to resist the forces like the counter-movement, perhaps through adopting measures of the ecological demos.