Justice Through a Multispecies Lens

Celermajer, Danielle; Chatterjee, Sria; Cochrane, Alasdair; Fishel, Stefanie; Neimanis, Astrida; O’Brien, Anne; Reid, Susan; Srinivasan, Krithika; Schlosberg, David; Waldow, Anik

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“…This will lead to policy recommendations on how to improve protection of vulnerable populations in current and future infectious disease outbreaks, both through attention to the socio-historical conditions that create vulnerabilities and recognition of the knowledge and capabilities that many marginalized communities possess that should inform measures to prevent or mitigate the health harms arising from such outbreaks. However, as has been recently argued, OH concerns surrounding equity must go beyond solely focusing on the human element, and should include rethinking social justice through a multi-species lens (Celermajer et al 2020). As elsewhere in our network's activities, this requires combining insights from the human and animal health, environmental, and social sciences, and integrating a variety of sectors (public, civil society and business) to develop and apply OH relevant approaches.…”

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What role for One Health in the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Zarowsky

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Can J Public Health

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This commentary discusses the contributions that One Health (OH) principles can make in improving the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight four areas where the application of OH has the potential to significantly improve the governance of infectious diseases in general, and of COVID-19 in particular. First, more integrated surveillance infrastructure and monitoring of the occurrence of infectious diseases in both humans and animals can facilitate the detection of new infectious agents sharing similar genotypes across species and the monitoring of the spatio-temporal spread of such infections. This knowledge can guide public and animal health officials in their response measures. Second, application of the OH approach can improve coordination and active collaboration among stakeholders representing apparently incompatible domains. Third, the OH approach highlights the need for an effective institutional landscape, facilitating adequate regulation of hotspots for transmission of infectious agents among animals and humans, such as live animal markets. And finally, OH thinking emphasizes the need for equitable solutions to infectious disease challenges, suggesting that policy response mechanisms and interventions need to be reflective of the disproportionate disease burdens borne by vulnerable and marginalized populations, or by persons providing health care and other essential services to those sick.

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What role for One Health in the COVID-19 pandemic?

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“…Precisely because the attributes of knowledge and consciousness have been uniquely attributed to humans, we are faced here with the twin risks of anthropomorphism, where we assume that others are like us and fail to acknowledge their difference (Plumwood 2002), or 'mechanomorphism', where we objectify the more-than-human world, treating it, or parts of it, as inert, unfeeling and unthinking matter (Huggan and Tiffin 2010). What is required are continuous efforts to engage with radically different ways of knowing and being, while recognising the limits of our capacity to understand (Palmer et al 2015, Celermajer et al 2020. Tarrying with the discomfort of never fully knowing, but continuing to strive to do so better, is a core practice of multispecies justice (Haraway 2016).…”

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“…Before proceeding, a word about terminology. Every part of the term we are working with, that is, the multi-, the species-and the justice, can be critiqued, particularly for their implication in forms of classification and ontologies of seperateness that we seek here to deconstruct (van Dooren et al 2016, Celermajer et al 2020. Alternatives might include 'inter' not 'multi', 'being' ' not 'species' and a regulative ethical concept other than justice.…”

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Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics

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Environmental Politics

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This essay seeks to open a conversation about multispecies justice in environmental politics. It sets out some of the theoretical approaches, key areas of exploration, and obvious challenges that come with rethinking a core plank of liberal theory and politics. First, we discuss some of the diverse scholarly fields that have influenced the emergence of multispecies justice. We then discuss core concerns at the centre of this reconfiguration of justice-including broadening conceptions of the subject of justice and the means and processes of recognition (and misrecognition). The importance of deconstructing and decolonising the hegemony of liberal political discourse is crucial, and is part of a larger project for multispecies justice to rework a politics of knowledge and practice of political communication. Finally, we begin to explore what a commitment to multispecies justice might demand of politics and policy. KEYWORDS Multispecies justice; environmental justice; environmental political theory Introduction: laying out the terrain of multispecies justice We began this in the midst of a fossil-fueled climate disaster. Bushfires raged across Australia laying waste to ecosystems and billions of the nonhuman beings and relationships that make up this place. This reality is neither a natural disaster nor a tragedy, but injustice-albeit injustice that cannot be contained by standard notions of that concept. The impacts of these and other ecological disasters generated by industrialization and capitalism demand an approach to idea and practice of justice that can encompass and respond to the destruction of multispecies lifeways. Here, we lay out an introduction to multispecies justice (MSJ), suggest theoretical approaches that contribute to it, key areas of exploration, and the challenges of rethinking justice.

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“…Focusing on the individualised injustices of extinction relates to a major ecological justice concern raised by extinction studies scholars. Scientific conservation and extinction discourses' emphasis on collectives (species, populations or statistics) inevitably erases individual-level suffering, violence and meaning (Chrulew, 2011;Parreñas, 2018;Srinivasan and Cochrane, 2020;Srinivasan and Kasturirangan, 2017;van Dooren, 2010van Dooren, , 2014. Observing that scientific conversations often emphasise numbers, statistics, percentages and population-level effects, van Dooren (2010Dooren ( , 2014 urges attention to the individually felt experience of pain within the collective process of extinction that are obscured by these emphases on collectives.…”

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“…A new justice framework -that of multispecies justice -has only just begun to be conceptualised, defined and debated. In its most simple definition, multispecies justice may be described as a framework that considers both environmental justice (environmentally linked justice issues affecting humans) and ecological justice (those affecting nonhumans) (Celermajer et al, 2020;Heise, 2016;Lorimer, 2015). Environmental and ecological justice theories often run in parallel without direct engagement with each other (Schlosberg, 2007).…”

Section: Conclusion: Multispecies Justice In An Age Of Extinctionmentioning

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‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum

Guasco

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article unites recent writing in extinction studies with work in political ecology, justice theory and museum studies to explore qualitative, cultural approaches to extinction. I examine the role of storytelling and the power of narratives in addressing nonhuman extinction. Analysing the case study of a permanent gallery on extinction, evolution and biodiversity loss – the Survival Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland – I utilise a more-than-textual approach to narrative analysis. This paper explores the diverse ways in which the gallery relates stories of ‘natural’ extinction to the contemporary anthropogenic ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’. The Survival Gallery narrates a remarkably complex compilation of extinction stories, but the gallery’s narrative avoids areas of conflict or controversy, obscures justice concerns and ultimately presents a problematic depiction of a universalised humanity. Using this analysis of museum extinction storytelling, the paper contributes to emerging conceptualisations of multispecies justice frameworks. The article explores the possibilities and challenges of museum storytelling in grappling with complicated pasts and envisioning potential futures of survival, coexistence and flourishing. The paper concludes by considering how a multispecies justice approach to narrating extinction (and other entangled ecological-social phenomena) might flourish within and beyond museums.

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Justice Through a Multispecies Lens

Cited by 54 publications

References 59 publications

What role for One Health in the COVID-19 pandemic?

What role for One Health in the COVID-19 pandemic?

Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics

‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum

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