Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics

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dc.title	Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics
dc.contributor.author	Cesaroni Valeria
dc.contributor.author	Terragni Claudia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2023/2/multispecies-justice-and-human-inequalities-risks/
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| Issue 2 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2023-11-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Climate justice
dc.subject	Multispecies justice
dc.subject	New materialism
dc.subject	Posthuman
dc.subject	Social struggles

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Claudia Terragni Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia

Valeria Cesaroni Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italia

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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.

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Dec. 20, 2023

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Nov. 19, 2023

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Sept. 30, 2023

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Keywords: Posthuman • New materialism • Social struggles • Multispecies justice • Climate justice

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