What Goes Around Comes Around: From the Coloniality of Power to the Crisis of Civilization

Helland, Leonardo E. Figueroa; Lindgren, Tim

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2016.631

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“…Though direct translations of the term “climate justice” itself do not appear in many languages, more place‐based experiences of injustices can nuance and challenge more “universalistic” notion of climate justice. This is important because unless the “gaze is reversed,” it is likely that solutions, responses and remedies offered will continue to reflect a Northern perspective instead of a bottom‐up view from those who are on the frontline of climate change which exposes and challenges the (often colonial in origin) power relations they embody (Helland & Lindgren, 2016; Mehta et al, 2019). This not only calls for the need to historicize justice claims recognizing and addressing the role of colonialism, extractivism and dispossession in the current distribution and accumulation of wealth between nations, classes and social groups, but also ensuring the incorporation of more plural ways of understanding and pursuing justice (Gilio‐Whitaker, 2019; Rodriguez et al, 2015).…”

Section: Responding To a New Landscape: Gaps And Tensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such dynamics have been long observed in relation to knowledge about forest conservation and degradation (Leach & Mearns, 1996) and are increasingly pertinent to climate debates (Leach & Scoones, 2015). There is scope here for comparative work building on traditions of citizen climate science (Fischer, 2002; Panda, 2016; Vedwan & Rhoades, 2001), indigenous environmentalism (Carruthers, 1996) and alternative cosmologies which contest the coloniality of power (Helland & Lindgren, 2016). Engagement with diverse systems of knowledge and integrating bottom‐up assessments can open up ways to communicate more effectively with communities often on the front line of climate injustices (Conway et al, 2019; Mehta et al, 2019; Mehta & Srivastava, 2020).…”

Section: Toward Transformative Climate Justice: Charting An Agenda For Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is about justice to the environment, where the environment itself is a recipient of justice and the subject of justice claims (Dobson, 1999). Indigenous environmentalism's rejection of the inter-changeability of ecosystems and environments: a construct central to carbon offsetting mechanisms, subverts dominant trends toward commodifying nature, while ascribing value to all living things which are entitled to their own justice (Helland & Lindgren, 2016).…”

Section: Responding To a New Landscape: Gaps And Tensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

Newell

Srivastava

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WIREs Climate Change

157

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Calls for climate justice abound as evidence accumulates of the growing social and environmental injustices aggravated or driven by climate change.There is now a considerable and diverse literature on procedural, distributional and intergenerational dimensions, including questions of recognition in climate justice. Yet its meaning, scope and practical implications are still contested. Importantly, the broader landscape within which climate justice is situated is rapidly changing, bringing new challenges to the understanding and practice of climate justice. This review takes stock of climate justice literature in view of this new context. We find several disconnects and tensions between more philosophical and academic treatments of the subject on the one hand, and "activist"-oriented approaches to climate justice on the other. Scholarship often falls into silos around scales from global and local, between mitigation and adaptation or draws distinctions between climate justice and other forms of (in)justice. This inhibits an understanding of climate justice that can address more directly its underlying root causes in an historically constituted global economic system and intersecting set of social inequalities. We propose a research agenda centered on a transformative approach to climate justice, placing analysis of power in its various guises at the center of its enquiry, and subverting and moving beyond existing distinctions by focusing on the social and institutional relations and inequalities that both produce climate change and profoundly shape responses to it. We elaborate on three key strands of such an approach: inclusive climate justice, deepening climate justice and governance for climate justice.

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Section: Responding To a New Landscape: Gaps And Tensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Toward Transformative Climate Justice: Charting An Agenda For Researchmentioning

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Section: Responding To a New Landscape: Gaps And Tensionsmentioning

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Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

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“…The literature on capitalism emphasizes the direct causal relationship between the constitutive habits of this form of life and global warming, air pollution and depletion of the earth's resources, habits that operate under the principle of maximizing profits and hyper‐productivity (Figueroa‐Helland & Lindgren, ). In its specific version of neoliberal capitalism, various scholars have shown that the Internet and digital technologies are playing an increasing part in the reification of social relations to the detriment of subjectivity (Dean, ; Morelock, ; Rueda Garrido, ).…”

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Actions, habits and forms of life

Garrido

2020

J Theory Soc Behav

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After a survey on the work of prominent philosophers within the Western tradition, it can be noticed a tendency to view habits as automatic, unfree and unconscious behaviour. In this context, this article attempts to show that habits are actually much closer to the characteristics that are otherwise attributed to actions. That is, following the dialectical approach of Sartre, I develop arguments to support that habits are conscious actions carried out with a sense of identification towards the form of life that actions, in turn, project as a whole; in this way, each form of life requires a set of habits that the agent performs freely and rationally, understanding the latter as the dialectical procedure by which the act itself brings about a totalizing identity. This vision implies that habits are interrelated and codependent within a network of social behavior, so they cannot be discarded without discarding the form of life to which they belong. That is, a change of habit requires a change in the totality of which it is a part. But that change can only occur if social agents become aware that their habits are a product of their free acceptance and not of necessity. In the article, this latter is paradigmatically exemplified by neoliberal capitalism as a form of life.

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“…Their debate might indeed be enriched by the inclusion of various forms of situated knowledge stemming from feminist theory, traditional ecological knowledge, and decolonial thought (e.g. Collard & Dempsey 2018; Figueroa Helland & Lindgren 2016; Turnhout 2018). The latter offers fertile grounds for theorizing the current ecological rift given the current unequal exchange between core and periphery nations.…”

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A novel human-based nature-conservation paradigm in Guatemala paves the way for overcoming the metabolic rift

Córdova

2020

Capital & Class

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Nature-conservation practices in the Global South are fraught with uncertainty due to fragile environmental governance and conflict stemming from their subaltern position in global capitalism, given the tension between human needs and habitat integrity. This article hinges on a recent effort spear-headed by the Centre of Conservation Studies at University of San Carlos in Guatemala, to discuss how a counterhegemonic narrative offers fertile grounds for a decolonized reading of the metabolic rift. I use my notes from eight workshops held in 2018 as the empirical body for a discourse analysis where the emerging categories have been singled out and problematized in the light of ethnoecological theory and David Harvey’s moments for the transition towards a post-Capitalist society vis-à-vis a prevailing environmental regime characterized by its verticality, lack of scientific substantiation, and proclivity to privilege exchange value at the expense of widening the metabolic rift. This regime arguably spawns several ecological rifts, namely the following: (1) between conventional scientific parlance and traditional ecological knowledge; (2) between utility-inspired natural resource management and local land husbandry practices; and (3) between nature as a reservoir of resources and nature as the sustenance for life. In addition, I present a case study where local advocacy in a peripheral community managed to bring about a relevant shift in the correlation of political powers by seizing the national legislation to achieve a transfer of property rights that enabled the inception of a brand-new nature reserve. The new conservation paradigm in question, this case seems to suggest, dovetails adequately with civil society’s efforts to foster nature-conservation practices, in line with human well-being and sound environmental governance. The latter provides some evidence for a principle of hope – à la Ernst Bloch – whereby, dissident groups are paving the way for a grassroots-oriented conservation science that eventually could bridge the metabolic rift.

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What Goes Around Comes Around: From the Coloniality of Power to the Crisis of Civilization

Abstract: This article combines world-systems, decolonial, eco-feminist and post-human ecological

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

Toward transformative climate justice: An emerging research agenda

Actions, habits and forms of life

A novel human-based nature-conservation paradigm in Guatemala paves the way for overcoming the metabolic rift

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