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Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm
plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind
communities understand and navigate the social, political, and
environmental demands of the oil palm plant.
What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social
justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and
other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography,
philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary art
answer these questions from diverse grounded locations. In America,
Indigenous peoples and prisoners are decolonizing multispecies
relations in unceded territory and carceral landscapes. Small
justices are emerging in Tanzanian markets, near banana plantations
in the Philippines, and in abandoned buildings of Azerbaijan as
people navigate relations with feral dogs, weeds, rats, and
pesticides. Conflicts over rights of nature are intensifying in
Colombia's Amazon. Specters of justice are emerging in India, while
children in Micronesia memorialize extinct bird species. Engaging
with ideas about environmental justice, restorative justice, and
other species of justice, The Promise of Multispecies Justice holds
open the possibility of flourishing in multispecies worlds, present
and to come. Contributors. Karin Bolender, Sophie Chao, M. L.
Clark, Radhika Govindrajan, Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar, Noriko
Ishiyama, Eben Kirksey, Elizabeth Lara, Jia Hui Lee, Kristina
Lyons, Michael Marder, Alyssa Paredes, Craig Santos Perez, Kim
TallBear
Utilizing a multispecies lens and anticolonial framework,
contributors to this special issue seek to reconceptualize justice
to include beings beyond the human realm. The authors imagine how
existing political institutions—which determine the meaning and
distributions of value and power—might be formed and transformed
in ways that respond to and afford justice in the lives, relations,
and socialities of other-than-human beings. This institutional
shift, the authors argue, would disrupt uneven fields of
identity-based power, inequality, marginalization, and privilege.
It would also foster practices of living together in ways that are
hospitable to a broader range of subjects, both human and nonhuman,
at a time of socio-ecological unraveling, threat, and instability.
Essays cover a variety of topics, including the subterranean
estrangement of stygofauna, slaughterhouses and factory farms,
anticolonial conceptions of justice, critical plant studies,
ecofeminism, and Indigenous cosmopolitics. The authors of this
collection engage with methods and concepts derived from fields
including cultural theory, anthropology, political theory,
philosophy, art, history of science, queer/feminist theory, law,
and conservation science. Contributors: Ravi Agarwal, Margaret
Barbour, Danielle Celermajer, Sophie Chao, Sria Chatterjee, Janet
Lawrence, Dalia Nasser, Astrida Neimanis, Susan Reid, Daniel
Ruiz-Serna, Hayley Singer, Christine Winter Â
What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social
justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and
other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography,
philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary art
answer these questions from diverse grounded locations. In America,
Indigenous peoples and prisoners are decolonizing multispecies
relations in unceded territory and carceral landscapes. Small
justices are emerging in Tanzanian markets, near banana plantations
in the Philippines, and in abandoned buildings of Azerbaijan as
people navigate relations with feral dogs, weeds, rats, and
pesticides. Conflicts over rights of nature are intensifying in
Colombia's Amazon. Specters of justice are emerging in India, while
children in Micronesia memorialize extinct bird species. Engaging
with ideas about environmental justice, restorative justice, and
other species of justice, The Promise of Multispecies Justice holds
open the possibility of flourishing in multispecies worlds, present
and to come. Contributors. Karin Bolender, Sophie Chao, M. L.
Clark, Radhika Govindrajan, Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar, Noriko
Ishiyama, Eben Kirksey, Elizabeth Lara, Jia Hui Lee, Kristina
Lyons, Michael Marder, Alyssa Paredes, Craig Santos Perez, Kim
TallBear
Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm
plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind
communities understand and navigate the social, political, and
environmental demands of the oil palm plant.
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