‘Valuing Life Itself’: On Radical Environmental Activists’ Post-Anthropocentric Worldviews

Alberro, Heather

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“…Environmentalist ideas' implementation into political practice and ideology is explained in terms of soft revolution, or reformist environmentalism (smooth transition to economic environmentally friendly practices) and radical environmentalism (abrupt changes in economic practices up to polluting production bans despite economic recession). Frustrated by reformist measures, radical environmental groups use direct action tactics (tree sit-ins, road blockades, ships' ramming), making eco-destructive activities unsustainable (Alberro, 2020).…”

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Ecologization And Radicalisation Of Contemporary Civic Activism

Shcheblanova¹

2022

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The aggravation of ecological situations, and their epidemiological significance as well as awareness of the nature social value influence the level of ecological anxiety within society and that of both constructive and destructive ecological activity. Ecological nihilism is transformed into ecological activism making the state follow public demand for a favorable environment and ecological policy meeting the requirements of social security. Ecologization and radicalization of civic activism are also conditioned by the interaction of ecosystem problems; politicization trends, manipulation of environmental situations at the global and local levels; processes of informatization, individualization, and alarmism. Proponents of eco-activism initiate social and political movements, transformations, discourses, and actions, interdisciplinary assessment of which requires systematization and generalization. And the focus of this article is civic activism conceptualization in terms of greening and radicalization, based on the systematization of its interdisciplinary scientific definitions, explanations of its diverse manifestations. The scientific methods used are the authors' interpretative analysis of academic texts; comparative and derivative analysis of sociological empirical research results. Having considered interdisciplinary attributes and characteristics of civic activism forms, the authors propose their own interpretation of environmental radicalism. Environmental radicalism is a type of civic activity coherent with environmental problems, human rights-based approach and political radicalism, both non-violent and aggressive delinquent actions that pose public danger being used. An utmost form of environmentalism is eco-extremism, which risks for society are much higher due to the use of illegitimate and illegal violence against ordinary citizens and traditional institutions.

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Ecologization And Radicalisation Of Contemporary Civic Activism

Shcheblanova¹

2022

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Hacking climate fiction is also in harmony with how activists themselves perceive the importance of 'utopianism' for environmental action (Alberro, 2020). According to Imarisha (2015), activists engage regularly with science fictions because they are constantly involved with envisioning and creating better worlds, hence climate fiction is the most suitable tool to explore their affective and ecopolitical attachments to better climate futures.…”

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The intertwinement of speculative fictions and environmental activism: Towards a sensory sociology of climate fiction

Alačovska

Holt

2023

The Sociological Review

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In this article we tentatively plot the coordinates of a sensory sociology approach for empirically investigating how the popular culture genre of climate fiction operates affectively within environmental activism. We begin by theorising the genre of climate fiction as an affective potentiality capable of stimulating the imagination of hopeful climate futures and energising imaginactivism, that is the activist quest for the attainment of better climate alternatives. In this theorisation we draw on McKenzie Wark’s account of ecological speculative fiction, Elizabeth Grosz’s bioaesthetics and Bernard Stiegler’s ‘neganthropology’. We outline a range of speculative, inventive, utopian, atmospheric, enactive and sensory methodologies for the sociological study of climate fiction as an affective potentiality. By employing these methodologies, we argue, researchers will be better attuned to the affective intensities and atmosphere of anticipation, speculation and collective enactment of dreams of better climate futures that climate fiction is poised to catalyse in social settings of environmental activism.

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“…Nonetheless, there is a key differentiating characteristic of humans, that humans are able to detach themselves from biological life through their meta-cognitive rational capacities. This detachment and investment in the disembodied rational are what renders us susceptible to making choices that may in fact override our biological drives, susceptible also to the objectification of human and non-human animals alike, and susceptible to pursuing goals that may jeopardise biological existence, such as now when we are confronted with anthropogenic climate change (Alberro 2020;Braidotti 2020).…”

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Sentience and the Primordial ‘We’: Contributions to Animal Ethics from Phenomenology and Buddhist Philosophy

Daly¹

2023

Environmental Values

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This paper explores the ontological bases for ethical behaviour between human animals and non-human animals drawing on phenomenology and Buddhist philosophy. Alongside Singer and utilitarianism, I argue that ethical behaviour regarding animals is most effectively justified and motivated by considerations of sentience. Nonetheless, utilitarianism misses crucial aspects of sentience. Buddhist ethics is from the beginning focused on all sentient beings, not solely humans. This inclusivity, and refined interrogations of suffering, means it can furnish more nuanced understandings of sentience. For phenomenology, sentience includes the capacities for self-awareness and, I will argue, a plural self-awareness; the ‘I’ belongs to a ‘we’, and the ‘we’ is constitutive of the ‘I’. This ‘primordial we’ provides the basis for rethinking the moral relations between human animals and non-human animals. I contend finally we thus have an ontological basis in ‘interanimality’ to explain why we most often do and should care about all sentient beings.

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‘Valuing Life Itself’: On Radical Environmental Activists’ Post-Anthropocentric Worldviews

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Ecologization And Radicalisation Of Contemporary Civic Activism

Ecologization And Radicalisation Of Contemporary Civic Activism

The intertwinement of speculative fictions and environmental activism: Towards a sensory sociology of climate fiction

Sentience and the Primordial ‘We’: Contributions to Animal Ethics from Phenomenology and Buddhist Philosophy

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