The Rights of Nature and the Testimony of Things (eBook)

Literature and Environmental Ethics from Latin America

Mark Anderson (Autor)

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2024
288 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0679-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Rights of Nature and the Testimony of Things begins by analyzing the ethical debates and political contexts relating to Latin American ';rights of nature' legislation and the political ontology of nonhuman speech within a framework of intercultural and multispecies diplomacy. Author Mark Anderson shows how Latin American authors and thinkers complicate traditional humanistic perspectives on nature, the social, and politics, exploring how animals, plants, and environments as a whole might be said to engage in social relations and political speech or self-representation. Drawing Native Amazonian thought into productive tension with a variety of posthumanist theoretical frameworksranging from Derrida's conceptualization of passive decision and hospitality to biosemiotics, Karen Barad's theorization of intra-activity, and Isabelle Stengers' proposal for cosmopolitical diplomacyAnderson analyzes literary works by Julio Cortzar, Clarice Lispector, Jose Eustasio Rivera, and Davi Kopenawa that reframe environmental ethics in terms of collective, multispecies work and reciprocal care and politics as a cosmopolitics of friendship rooted in diplomacy across difference. Finally, Anderson examines the points of connection and divergences between Latin American relational ontologies and Euro American posthumanist theories within Indigenous Latin American remodernization projects that reappropriate and repurpose ancestral practices as well as develop new technologies with the goal of forging alternative modernities compatible with a livable future for all species.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Biosemiotics • Clarice Lispector • Cosmopolitics • Critical Animal Studies • critical plant studies • Davi Kopenawa • decolonial thought • Ecocriticism • ecoliterature • Environmental Ethics • Environmental Humanities • Jose Eustasio Rivera • Julio Cortazar • Latin America • multinaturalism • political ecologies • postcolonial ecologies • Rights of nature • State of nature • sympoetics
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-0679-8 / 0826506798
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-0679-5 / 9780826506795