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Ecumene

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Ecumene 

(Greek oikumene), a term that was used to designate the part of the earth inhabited by man. The ecumene was first described by Hecataeus of Miletus, who included Europe (except northern Europe), Asia Minor, Southwest Asia, India, and North Africa in the concept of ecumene.
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28) Intriguingly enough, it seems, rather, to share some similarities both with the modernist utopias, which were closed models of future society, and with some characteristics of hegemonic neoliberal globalization: unique thought (whether neoliberalism or Islamism), juridical ecumene (be it the rule of law or the Shari'a), monolithic expansionism (be it the market or conversion), the critique of the State (be it of the Welfare State or of the secular State).
If God were a human rights activist: human rights and the challenge ... by de Sousa Santos, Boaventura / Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal
Moorman uses the concept of the global ecumene in regard to a series of cultural practices that included clothing items worn by members of a cosmopolitan youth culture.
Fashioning Africa: Power and Politics of Dress by Eicher, Joanne B. / African Arts
Edson describes how mapmakers themselves opened their "imaginations and their maps to new lands" in ordering the ecumene or inhabited world (vii) at the same time as they lent trust to nautical charts.
The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and ... by Brownstein, Daniel / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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