What If: multispecies justice as the expression of utopian desire

Thaler, Mathias

doi:10.1080/09644016.2021.1899683

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“…Embarking on this ‘messy kind of grief’ offers entry points into entangled webs of recognition, empathy, shared vulnerabilities and responsibilities that, in turn, help mobilise collective engagement and climate action. Recent advances in multispecies justice (Celermajer et al, 2021; Tschakert et al, 2021; Tschakert, 2021; Thaler, 2021) advocate for building diverse and deliberative coalitions and solidarity across scales of mattering on the long and arduous route to salvage and recovery. Shared suffering and joint loss and grief are also at the core of the postapocalyptic discourse – something Luke and Simon see quite clearly – as they hold the space for an unexpected, hopeful way forward to embody entangled responsibilities.…”

Section: Tracing Emotions In Everyday Placesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope

Tschakert

Coudray

Horwitz

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The postapocalypse as a mobilising discourse for climate action operates largely out of anger over experienced and anticipated injustices as well as paradoxical hope that fuses loss and grief with freed-up solidarities in support of liveable futures. However, negotiating this emotional tension can be both draining and isolating. Here, we examine how white settler populations in Western Australia balance grief and hope in places they hold dear and the role emotions such as sadness, worry, disappointment, joy, and pride play in relational place making. Through an innovative in situ and mobile methodology we call Walking Journeys, we trace how participants navigate their climatic-affective atmospheres and make sense of their agency in changing ‘Places of the Heart’. We find evidence for emotional complexities of solastalgia where pessimistic outlooks for the future are wrapped up in prefigurative visions of a better world. By holding the tension between paralysis and restoration, urban and rural residents explore affective co-existence and differential belonging in their homes and the landscapes around them. We highlight the challenge of enfranchising emotions beyond individuals and conclude by endorsing entangled, reflexive, and (re-)generative responsibilities for hopeful postapocalyptic journeying.

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Section: Tracing Emotions In Everyday Placesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope

Tschakert

Coudray

Horwitz

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…As illustrated in this case, certain anthropocentric measures to control zoonoses could give rise to ethical dilemmas related to the improper treatment of animals when human health is at risk. In order to resolve ethical dilemmas between competing value claims, we need to deepen the debate on multispecies justice (Celermajer et al, 2020;Healey & Pepper, 2021;Thaler, 2022bThaler, , 2022a. In addition, we need to clarify what we say when we want to include the value claims of animals, ecosystems, and ecological collectives within One Health (Att eld, 2015; Callicott et al, 2007;Rolston, 2010;Rozzi et al, 2013Rozzi et al, , 2020Rozzi, 2015).…”

Section: The Ethical Dilemmas Of One Health: the Case Of Animal Slaug...mentioning

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One Health, Ecological Bioethics, and the Ethics of Zoonoses: A call for Global Action

Rodriguez

2023

Preprint

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Zoonoethics refers to the ethical issues surrounding zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans (WHO, 2023). With the rise of emerging infectious diseases globally, these issues have become increasingly important. There are over 200 known types of zoonoses, and many of them are influenced by socioeconomic factors like climate change, biodiversity loss, and antimicrobial resistance. Zoonoses and diseases of infectious origin account for 70% of new and existing diseases affecting both humans and animals. Examples of zoonoses include but are not limited to anthrax, brucellosis, influenza, hantavirus syndromes, plagues, rabies, SARS-CoV, swine flu, MERS-CoV, Ebola, and SARS-CoV-2. While diseases like rabies can be prevented with vaccinations, others like Ebola and SARS-CoV-2 are extremely deadly. The management of these diseases will require the adoption and acceleration of the “One Health” approach, which recognizes the interconnectedness and interdependence between human, animal, and environmental health.

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“…Care is an important aspect of multispecies justice. 27 To care means being attentive to oppression 28 and also recognising that care will be necessary for life to continue in more-than-human entanglements. 29 Caring means attending to the interconnections, interrelations and interdependencies that affect the life and wellbeing of the primary object or subject through care networks.…”

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Reimagining Just Futures with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Price¹

2022

Environment and History

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2022 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's highly controversial bestselling book, Silent Spring. The book is about the toxicological properties of nineteen pesticides and the harm these cause the environment and biodiversity. In the USA, Silent Spring prompted congressional hearings and led to the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, as well as triggering the wrath of the chemical industry and associated groups. Carson's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, and the New Yorker, which serialised Silent Spring, received threats of legal action from pesticide manufacturers.Silent Spring, although written for a 1960s American audience, is still highly relevant for audiences in 2022. It could be argued that the book is more relevant in 2022, given that we have entered the Sixth Extinction 1 with many species being lost. For example, the insect apocalypse will be devastating for humans and the more-than-human world. 2 Insects pollinate crops, control pests, maintain soil health, recycle leaves, corpses and dung, and are food sources for animals such as birds and fish. The world cannot function without insects in ecosystems.Rachel Carson opens her Chapter 2 explaining that the 'history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been moulded by the environment'. 3 Carson goes on to explain how this has altered, with human

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What If: multispecies justice as the expression of utopian desire

Abstract: This is the peer reviewed version of a paper forthcoming in Environmental Politics. ***If your university does not provide access to this journal, please send me an email so that I can share the published paper with you.

Cited by 28 publications

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Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope

Walking journeys into everyday climatic-affective atmospheres: The emotional labour of balancing grief and hope

One Health, Ecological Bioethics, and the Ethics of Zoonoses: A call for Global Action

Reimagining Just Futures with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

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