Editorial to Re-worlding: Pluriversal Politics in the Anthropocene

Tornel, Carlos; Lunden, Aapo

doi:10.30671/nordia.116927

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“…Here, I use the Capitalocene as a method, following Tornel and Lunden, to ‘formulate and construct a political subjectivity of the ongoing civilizatory/planetary crisis’ (Tornel & Lunden, 2022, p. 3), in this case applied to kitchen space. Following the argument that to find more just and sustainable futures requires not only better science or meticulous policies, but a shift in values (IPBES, 2022); I consider the overlooked values, imaginations, and ‘kitchen philosophies’ accrued by women over centuries.…”

Section: Chicken Bones Capital and Kitchen Philosophiesmentioning

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Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene

Ita¹

2023

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This paper considers the kitchen and the phenomenological values that emerge from it. In this text the kitchen is seen as a space of possibility within the context of the Capitalocene, from which new values and imaginations for a more sustainable future may emerge. Drawing upon ecofeminist critiques and feminist food studies, and building upon the phenomenologies of space of Gaston Bachelard and Yi‐Fu Tuan, this exploration surveys how intimacy, memory, care, and relation emerge from kitchen endeavours and what these notions mean for a Capitalocenic world. These theoretics are intertwined with ethnographic materials on foodscapes and foodways gathered in Xochimilco, Mexico City. From this, radical conceptualisations of the kitchen emerge and everyday phenomenologies spread into new spaces, while bringing together these subjects with environmental issues. I propose the notion of the antiromantic as an approach emerging from the kitchen's history as a gendered and contested space, and as a way to approach the kitchen and its labours in the midst of our current ecological crises; in this way the kitchen can be understood and inhabited as a political space of possibility for sustainable transformations.

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Section: Chicken Bones Capital and Kitchen Philosophiesmentioning

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Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene

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2023

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“…I am now going to risk of the intellectual equivalent of "farting in a lift" -to borrow a joke from my friend Raj Patel. I want to begin by communicating my gratitude to the co-editors for inviting me to join a dialogue on pluriversalism, knowing well that I would challenge its guiding threads (Lunden & Tornel 2021). From the outset, let me stipulate that scholars' ongoing efforts to recuperate indigenous cosmologies and practices are necessary to any planetary justice project.…”

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Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight from World History: Dialectical Universalism & the Geographies of Class Power in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1492-2022

Moore

2022

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“…However, this epoch is one where certain 'men' in certain places, and not humanity as a whole everywhere, have brought about transformations to various Earth systems on a planetary scale. While we do not want to recount how the ways in which Europe amassed its wealth through rather violent and morally dubious means of appropriation that heralded this era (Lewis & Maslin 2018), the Anthropocene represents to us a story of how the 'end of the world' is spatially differentiated (Wakefield 2020), drawing attention to plurality and the importance of scale (Tornel & Lunden 2022). At the same time, global political and technological arrangements have developed into what Mitchell (2011) labelled 'carbon democracy'.…”

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Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene

Huijbens

Benediktsson

2022

Fennia

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Carbon-based systems of energy are rapidly unravelling. The imperative of climate emergency is reshaping energy landscapes, in some instances leading to the reappraisal of energy options hitherto sidelined. This paper deals with the emerging energy landscapes of the Netherlands and Iceland through historically informed tales that focus on islands. While vastly different in historical and geographical context and scale, these cases reveal the necessity of geographical nuance facilitated by the ways insular places offer insights into energy imaginaries of the Anthropocene. The former is a historicised narrative about the reinvention of wind energy as natural gas is being ousted. It focuses on the proposed Dogger Bank Power Link Islands, the first of which is scheduled to emerge in the coming years. The latter, also historically informed, identifies the context for current large wind energy proposals in Iceland, and then contrasts these with the authors’ empirical observations from the small peripheral island of Grímsey. There wind energy is also being reinvented for ousting the predominant oil infrastructure on the island. These cases represent experimental opportunities for envisioning Anthropocene futures intended to destabilize imaginaries of growth in ways that open spaces for negotiation and contestation. They problematize dominant narratives that render wind energy development visible and knowable as a necessary intervention. Emergent from this is wind’s decentred energy landscape in the Anthropocene; an epoch where energy is revealed in its importance to our societies, dispelling the human exceptionalism implicit in the nomenclature whilst at the same time showing how our actions come to matter. The collision of the Earth and ourselves under the terms of climate emergency begs the question whether our differences are the only ones that matter? But also, if it matters what we have done, then surely it matters what we have not done and chosen to ignore.

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Editorial to Re-worlding: Pluriversal Politics in the Anthropocene

Cited by 4 publications

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Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene

Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene

Anthropocene, Capitalocene & the Flight from World History: Dialectical Universalism & the Geographies of Class Power in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1492-2022

Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene

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