From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions

ISBN-13: 9789813368866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

McIntyre-Mills, Janet J.

Opis

This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests   critical systemic  pathways to  protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of rapid urbanisation places humanity at risk. This book demonstrates how narrow anthropocentrism has focused on the rights of human beings at the expense of other species and the environment. This book explores a priori norms and a posteriori measures and indicators to  include and protect multiple species. This book aims to strengthen institutional capacity and powers to  address and extend the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by drawing on local wisdom but also the need to implement laws to prevent ecocide. This book highlights that our fragile interdependence requires a recognition of our hybridity and interconnectedness within the web of life and  suggests ways to reframe  policy within and beyond the nation state to support living systems of which we are a strand.

Spis treści

Section 1 : Rethinking Human Security and Resilience as Vulnerable Multispecies Relationships.- Chapter 1: communication and culture : a multispecies endeavour: recognising kinship with multiple species.- Chapter 2: Pandemic in South Africa: reflections on lock down.- Chapter 3: From old to new taxonomies of rights, relationships and responsibilities to protect habitat.- Chapter 4:Interview: Recognising our Hybridity and interconnectedness’.- Chapter 5: Consciousness for Balancing Individualism and Collectivism.- Chapter 6: Prospects for sustainable development linked to a focus on interrelatedness, interdependence and mutuality: Some African perspectives.- Chapter 7: Habitat loss and near extinction of plants and insects in South Africa.- Chapter 8: Stewardship : an anthropocentric misnomer.- Chapter 9 : Social engagement to redress the banality of evil and the frontiers of justice: Limitations of the social contract to protect habitat and why an international law to prevent the crime of ecocide matters.- Chapter 10 : From polarisation to multispecies relationships: re-membering narratives.- Chapter 11:  Vignette: Why thinking matters: constructivism, relationships and the performative universe.- Chapter 12 : Responsibly and Performatively researching multispecies relationality.- Chapter 13: City life in Vietnam: Autoethnographic reflection and application of Nussbaums’s ten capabilities.- Section 2: Reframing and Re-claiming the commons through a-Priori and aposteriori approaches.- Chapter 14: Social and environmental justice: the legacy of Structured Democratic Dialogue and the potential of Pathways to Wellbeing.- Chapter 15: Social engagement to protect multispecies habitat: implications for re-generation and food security.- Chapter: 16 Educational curriculum and multispecies relations.- Chapter 17: The potential of eco-facturing: Towards social and environmental justice through vocational education and training.- Chapter 18: From Eduation as usual to creating a post national learning community.- Chapter 19: The co-laboratory of democracy archetypes: Engaging stakeholders in deliberative democracy to respond proactively to diversity.- Section 3: Case Studies and Vignettes: Loss, Hope and Common Ground.- Chapter 20: McIntyre-Mills, J. The Greta factor: turning point and need for transformative research.- Chapter 21: Gender Quotas in Local Government: Implications for Community-Climate Action in Bangladesh.- Chapter 22:  Balancing the interests of wildlife and humans resulting in sustainable ecotourism: the case of Boabeng-Fiema monkeys’ sanctuary, Ghana.- Chapter 23: Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: a tale of deliberate human and environmental devastation in Vietnam.- Chapter 24: Reflection on the Changing Role of Women in a Post Disaster Environment, Central Sulawesi Indonesia.- Chapter  25: Vignette: At the margins.- Chapter 26 : Biopolitics and food security to protect social and environmental justice.- Chapter 27:  Vignette: Cannibalising the South Pacific.- Chapter 28: Systemic Praxis : narratives on steps towards re-generation.- Chapter 29:  Crisis : what crisis?.- Chapter 30  Vignette: Creating Common Ground.-Chapter 31: Advancing a modern ethos for oneness with all life through archaic story title.-Chapter 32:  Vignette: Relationships, narrative and memory.- Chapter  33:  Vignette : Knackered , ‘We are all flesh’.- Chapter 34: Vignette :Emergence , Regeneration and hope in the context of extinctions?.- Chapter 35:  Objectifying intersubjectivity for a scientific (re)volution through inclusion.- Chapter 36 :  Natural Inclusiveness.- Chapter 37 :  Voices from below for social and environmental justice.

O autorze

Janet McIntyre-Mills (DLitt et Phil, Sociology) is Honorary Professor at University of South Africa , ranked by the National Research Foundation in South Africa and Visiting Research Fellow at the Yunus Social Business Centre within the University of Adelaide Business School since Dec 2019. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University and holds affiliations with universities in Indonesia, such as the University of Indonesia and Universitas Padjadjaran where she is affiliated with the Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research. She has been nominated ‘Sociologist of the Month’ in August 2019 by the Current Sociology Journal in recognition of her paper: ‘Recognising our hybridity and Connectedness’. Her research focuses on systemic representation , accountability and re-generation applied to social and environmental justice concerns and includes both edited and sole authored volumes such as :Planetary Passport: Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation and Systemic Ethics and non-anthropocentric stewardship Springer, New York.orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-1228 

Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes (PhD Sociology) is an International Gender Consultant and a Principal Research Fellow in the Social Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University. She is also an Associate of the Gender Consortium at Flinders University and Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. She engages with some of the major issues facing women globally and specialises in gender specific research in non-western countries in the field of development and international politics, dealing with issues such as gender equality, human rights, gender-based violence, sustainable development, terrorism and conflict. She wrote a seminal work on Central Asian women entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books and is now in its 12thedition. She is presently working on a book about women resistance fighters in the American War in Vietnam