Journal | JoLMA
Journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2023
Research Article | Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics
Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics
Abstract
Human status categories have ceased to be the ontological prerogative of humans alone, and this paradigm shift carries broad ethical implications. In this essay, we investigate the concept of multispecies justice (MSJ), as it seeks to overcome the humanistic-liberal construct of justice, without sliding back into an anthropomorphisation of the nonhuman. We engage with the political limits of MSJ, as it fails to grasp a critical-genetic discourse on the historical materiality of inequalities. We advance the urgency for a more politically engaged posthumanism, as it runs the risk of becoming completely detached from current social struggles.
Submitted: Sept. 30, 2023 | Accepted: Nov. 19, 2023 | Published Dec. 20, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords Social struggles • Multispecies justice • New materialism • Climate justice • Posthuman
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/004
