Synonymous with catastrophe and destructive tendencies, the
Anthropocene provokes reflection on the limits of existing
applications of ideas of responsibility, ecological agency and
democratic justice. Youth campaigners, in particular, make emerging
insights on the Anthropocene of central importance to an
intersubjectively generated redefinition of the just society of the
future. Given their span of affectedness, escalating rates of
greenhouse gas emissions shape the ecological circumstances of
generations to come and implicate them in harm relations they had
no hand in creating. The realization is that human-inspired
climate-destructive practices reverberate across plural time
frames, thereby raising serious questions about the value of
conventional interpretations of the copresence of sources of
climate harm and their effects on the health and environmental
living standards of all peoples. If injuries provoked by
environmental degradation emerge across multiple time frames and
affect generations differentially, where do we draw the boundaries
of the just society, and how do we identify its most relevant
subjects? This book explores how such questions have ignited one of
the most important debates on democratic justice in recent years
– that between generations. For mobilized youth and future
justice coalitions campaigning internationally, expanding resource
inequalities (regionally and intergenerationally) are fundamentally
issues of unfair exclusions and asymmetries in relations of power
between generations. The book offers a comprehensive overview of
new insights being generated through such debate on the limitations
of democratic presentism, as well as current institutional
applications of civil and human rights norms. It assesses overall
how the metapolitical relevance of modernity’s democratic project
is being creatively redefined in terms more relevant to
Anthropocene futures.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Sociological Futures |
| Release date: |
September 2020 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Tracey Skillington
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
144 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-66051-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-367-66051-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780367660512 |
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