Planetary activism at the end of the world: Feminist and posthumanist imaginaries beyond Man

Abstract

We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, ethical, and political transformation. In this article, we propose that feminist theory, particularly feminist posthumanities, and Black feminist and decolonial thought, together with creative practices such as writing, have much to contribute to transformative planetary activism that imagines different and other kinds of worlds and futures based on an ethical consideration of nonhuman others and collective caring for the planet.

9. Writing companions – cat-writing as a pedagogy of messy interspecies entanglements

“…Haraway, 2016, p. 31). For more about writing-with nonhumans, see Ryan (2021) and Karkulehto et al (2022). where autoethnographic inquiry is entangled with pursuits in poetic language (Hanauer, 2021;Räsänen, 2022).…”

“…If cat-writing is to be used in teaching humans to relate to animals differently, specific pedagogical tools are nevertheless needed. I leave it with researchers, artists, and teachers, yours truly included, to develop cat-writing -or any other form of more-than-human writing (see Karkulehto et al, 2022) -as such a tool.…”