Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Modernity, Ecology and Indigenous Complexities

Dr Elisa Randazzo, Dr Hannah Richter (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3467-5 (ISBN)

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Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sustainable relations between humans and non-humans has long preceded Western Anthropocene discourse. Currently, the drastic ecological changes labelled as ‘the Anthropocene’ not only increasingly shape the political awareness and the priorities of citizens and governments, but also inform a large body of social scientific scholarship.

Indigenous scholarship and practice, in particular ecological adaptability, is intrinsically related to power structures and political struggle – hence indigenous understanding of Anthropocene discourses are intertwined with discourses of colonialism and political contestation. This book problematises the depoliticising character of Western Anthropocene discourses in relation to indigenous ecologies. The authors reveal how the anti-colonial struggles of Indigenous communities and the unequal distribution of responsibilities for and suffering from ecological change, are concealed and devalued in Western discourses of the Anthropocene.

Elisa Randazzo is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her work on critical peacebuilding theory has been published as a book titled Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding (2017), and as peer reviewed articles in journals such as Third World Quarterly and International Peacekeeping. Hannah Richter is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her work on post-structuralist political theory has been published in the European Journal of Political Theory and the European Journal of Social Theory. She is also the editor of Biopolitics: Race, Gender, Economy (2018).

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wither the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: The Rise of Anthropocene Theory: Politics, Ontology and the Feedback Loop of Western Humanism
Chapter 2: Repoliticising Ecology: Indigenous Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Chapter 3: Tell the Truth in the Face of the Extinction: Exceptionalism and Depoliticization in Anthropocene Activism
Chapter 4: Rights of Nature and Indigenous Threshold Politics
Chapter 5: Acting, Resisting, Surviving: Indigenous Agency Beyond the ‘End Times’
Epilogue Anthropocene Afterlives
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7556-3467-5 / 0755634675
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3467-5 / 9780755634675
Zustand	Neuware