Trans-Species Listening and the Rights of Nature: Legal Persons Beyond the Human: Introduction to Special Cluster in ISLE 27.3

Nicolaisen, Jeffrey; Aiyadurai, Ambika; Duara, Prasenjit

doi:10.1093/isle/isaa058

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“…In India, New Zealand and Ecuador, to name a few countries, indigenous communities have initiated movements to protect the commons that have succeeded in securing legal 'rights of nature' sanctioned by the highest courts in the land (Duara, 2015, pp. 265-273;Nicolaisen et al, 2020;UNESCO, 2021).…”

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The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture: Nationalism and the crises of global modernity

Duara

2021

Nations and Nationalism

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Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I argue that the nation form is the 'epistemic engine' driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature and perpetual growth that sustains the runaway technosphere. The cascading crises that we have already witnessed in this century-financial, economic, epidemic and climatologicalare rooted significantly in this technosphere. At the same time, we will have to find our way through and out of these forms to secure a sustainable planet. I explore the interstitial spaces and counter-flows of social movements that are seeking to develop a post-Enlightenment and a planetary, rather than a global, cosmology. | INTRODUCTIONWhile our minds have recently been focused on the idea of 'crisis' by the COVID19 pandemic and its association with climate change, it is also the case that the signifier 'crises' has been used so promiscuously over the last few decades that we may well come to believe it signifies nothing unusual about our condition. The purpose of this article is to explore the role of nationalism and the paradox of crises as routine in the modern world.

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