“We Are Not Pests”

Paredes, Alyssa

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“…I have shown that declining pollinator numbers is a catastrophe for both the human and more-than-human world. The entanglements of life have been broken by industrialised agriculture through the chemical control of perceived pests and diseases (Paredes, 2022), and land use change resulting in habitat loss (Moore, 2015). This has contributed to the decline in honeybee and wild insect pollinator numbers.…”

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“…These different forms of life are entangled in knowing and living together (Rose et al, 2017). Industrialised agriculture has broken these entanglements of life through the chemical control of perceived pests and diseases (Paredes, 2022), and land use change resulting in habitat loss (Moore, 2015). Changes to the way our food is produced are needed if the pollinator decline is to be halted.…”

Section: Rethinking Food Crop Pollination With Multispecies Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?

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2023

EIRJ

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The era we now live in is termed the Anthropocene. Climate change, land use change, pesticide and insecticide use, and pollution are all contributing to pollinator loss. To ensure food crops continue to be pollinated, artificial pollinator technologies are being developed. This article asks the question: do we need artificial pollination if we have multispecies justice in the Anthropocene? Three examples of artificial pollination technologies, Edete, Olombria, and RoboBee, are provided to help address this question. However, the companies designing and developing artificial pollination technologies do not aim to address the underlying problems of pollinator decline such as habitat loss and climate change. Addressing problems such as pollinator loss with the use of digital technology puts humanity onto the course of uncertain futures. For more just futures, there are calls for a turn towards multispecies justice. Considering pollinator loss through the lens of multispecies justice puts us on an altogether different course from that of using artificial pollination. With multispecies justice there is the potential for futures which are democratic, just, diverse, and sustainable for humans and the more-than-human world.

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Section: Rethinking Food Crop Pollination With Multispecies Justicementioning

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Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?

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2023

EIRJ

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“…Rethinking modernity and secularism should not displace and devalue anthropological analysis of ideology, specifically the ideological work that cosmopolitics do to naturalize “alterity” and make it hegemonic (Asad, 1979). 10 It remains crucial to pose critical questions about who benefits (“cui bono”) from and who is harmed by ontological arrangements that ostensibly challenge “modern” conceptions of religion and politics (Chao, 2022; Kirksey and Helmreich, 2010; Paredes, 2022; Star, 1990). In our case, this is especially crucial at a time when the Hindu Right has appropriated academic critiques of secularism 11…”

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More‐than‐human supremacy: Himalayan lessons on cosmopolitics

Bhan,

Govindrajan

2023

American Anthropologist

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How might our analysis of fascism be enriched if we turn our attention to how contemporary supremacist movements self‐fashion themselves as more‐than‐human formations? How is fascist politics naturalized through claims that it is fueled by the agency and vitality of not just humans but also other‐than‐humans? How do right‐wing supremacists’ assertions that theirs is an indigenous more‐than‐human politics that suffered but endured the violence of colonialism support the framing of fascism as a decolonizing project? In this article, we ground these questions in an ethnographic analysis of what we call the more‐than‐human turn in contemporary Hindu‐supremacist politics in the northwestern Himalayan region, focusing specifically on two political projects: the Hindu right‐wing's rediscovery of “ancient” Hindu rivers and communities in Ladakh and cow protection in Uttarakhand. In contrast to ontological anthropologists who suggest that cosmopolitics is plural and liberatory, we demonstrate how the inclusion of nonhuman entities in political life can serve to naturalize a fascist politics that seeks the extermination of those who are not part of the natural order of life. We urge anthropologists to make room for skepticism and critique in their analysis of cosmopolitical formations instead of prematurely celebrating “ecopolitics” as anti‐Western and anticolonial.

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“We Are Not Pests”

Cited by 2 publications

References 236 publications

Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?

Do we need Artificial Pollination if we have Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene?

More‐than‐human supremacy: Himalayan lessons on cosmopolitics

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