An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

Gibson, Katherine; Graham, Julie; Roelvink, Gerda

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00728.x

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“…An aspiration to live more responsibly with others is commonly articulated as a need for greater connection, reversing anti-ecological separatism (Gibson- Graham & Roelvnik, 2009). The field of environmental education has been particularly influenced by the idea that lack of connection with nature is a contemporary malaise to be countered, hence a focus on 'reconnecting children with nature' (Fletcher, 2016).…”

Section: Community Gardening As a Route To Environmental Concernmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning care cultivated through connecting with more-than-human communities

Pitt

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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Citation for final published version:Pitt, Hannah 2017. Questioning care cultivated through connecting with more-than-human communities. AbstractThis paper challenges the proposition that connecting with nature through direct encounters with nonhumans promotes ethical regard for them. It probes the limits of more-than-human ethics founded on personal encounters which struggle to cross distance and difference. I consider how personal engagement influences ethical perspectives and attend to processes by which care for nonhumans is learnt.Empirical research in community gardens reveals diverse relationships with nonhumans and underlines the importance of attending to qualities of relating. I propose typologies for thinking through more-than-human relationships, organising them according to degree of care. The research finds limits to gardening's potential to promote more care-full relations with others, with care limited by the prevalence of instrumental relationships with nonhumans. Learning to care for nonhumans requires a sense of connection to combine with disconnection gained through reflection, setting specific encounters within the context of more extensive relations and their power dynamics. More important than encounters teaching care for specific nonhuman dependents are those promoting understanding of the interdependent nature of more-than-human communities, and that stimulate reflection on the cumulative impact of a human tendency to forget this.

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Section: Community Gardening As a Route To Environmental Concernmentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning care cultivated through connecting with more-than-human communities

Pitt

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Here, academic work has focused on grounded practices that demonstrate ontologies that do not assign humans, other life forms or wider reality into normatively fixed roles (Buck, 2015;Collard et al, 2015;Ginn, 2015). These include practices of regenerative food production, alternative community economies, new ways of communing, and experiments in organizing social-ecological life along more regenerative, equitable and ethical lines (Gibson Graham and Roelvink, 2010;Gibson et al, 2015;Lorimer, 2015;Roelvink, 2013).…”

Section: Organizing Alternatives: New Forms Of Social Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizing in the Anthropocene

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The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, consumption and population now threaten our planet's life-support systems. These profound changes have led Earth System scientists to argue we have now entered a new geological epoch -the Anthropocene. In this introductory article to the Special Issue, we first set out the origins of the Anthropocene and some of the key debates around this concept within the physical and social sciences. We then explore five key organizing narratives that inform current economic, technological, political and cultural understandings of the Anthropocene and link these to the contributions in this Special Issue. We argue that the Anthropocene is the crucial issue for organizational scholars to engage with in order to not only understand on-going anthropogenic problems but also help create alternative forms of organizing based on realistic Earth-human relations.

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“…Seen in that light, the transition to the Anthropocene creates an urgent need to re-evaluate the goals of urban environmental planning projects, even if the effects of trends such as sea level rise may not be acute until after 2050. As a result, a wide range of new ethical questions are starting to be asked during discussions of appropriate goals and methods of planning for the Anthropocene (Graham & Roelvink, 2010).…”

Section: Changes In Philosophical Assumptions: Epistemology Ontologymentioning

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Climate Change: Implications for the Assumptions, Goals and Methods of Urban Environmental Planning

Hill

2016

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As a result of increasing awareness of the implications of global climate change, shifts are becoming necessary and apparent in the assumptions, concepts, goals and methods of urban environmental planning. This review will present the argument that these changes represent a genuine paradigm shift in urban environmental planning. Reflection and action to develop this paradigm shift is critical now and in the next decades, because environmental planning for cities will only become more urgent as we enter a new climate period. The concepts, methods and assumptions that urban environmental planners have relied on in previous decades to protect people, ecosystems and physical structures are inadequate if they do not explicitly account for a rapidly changing regional climate context, specifically from a hydrological and ecological perspective. The over-arching concept of spatial suitability that guided planning in most of the 20 th century has already given way to concepts that address sustainability, recognizing the importance of temporality. Quite rapidly, the concept of sustainability has been replaced in many planning contexts by the priority of establishing resilience in the face of extreme disturbance events. Now even this concept of resilience is being incorporated into a novel concept of urban planning as a process of adaptation to permanent, incremental environmental changes. This adaptation concept recognizes the necessity for continued resilience to extreme events, while acknowledging that permanent changes are also occurring as a result of trends that have a clear direction over time, such as rising sea levels. Similarly, the methods of urban environmental planning have relied on statistical data about hydrological and ecological systems that will not adequately describe these systems under a new climate regime. These methods are beginning to be replaced by methods that make use of early warning systems for regime shifts, and process-based quantitative models of regional system behavior that may soon be used to determine acceptable land uses. Finally, the philosophical assumptions that underlie urban environmental planning are changing to address new epistemological, ontological and ethical assumptions that support new methods and goals. The inability to use the past as a guide to the future, new prioritizations of values for adaptation, and renewed efforts to focus on intergenerational justice are provided as examples. In order to represent a genuine paradigm shift, this review argues that changes must begin to be evident across the underlying assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and methods of urban environmental planning, and be attributable to the same root cause. The examples presented here represent the early stages of a change in the overall paradigm of the discipline.

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An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

Cited by 170 publications

References 24 publications

Questioning care cultivated through connecting with more-than-human communities

Questioning care cultivated through connecting with more-than-human communities

Organizing in the Anthropocene

Climate Change: Implications for the Assumptions, Goals and Methods of Urban Environmental Planning

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