Where is the Asia Pacific in mainstream international relations scholarship on the Anthropocene?

Simangan, Dahlia

doi:10.1080/09512748.2020.1732452

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“…The Anthropocene unsettles the worldview that humans are separate from (and therefore above) the rest of the natural world. In contrast to ontologies of human-nature entanglement often found in Indigenous practices, 55 human-nature dualism has been the prevalent worldview behind extractivism and industrialisation. Extracting the finite resources of the natural world for the purpose of infinite growth, based on the logic that industrialisation will prompt human development, is the major cause of anthropogenic greenhouse gases warming the planet.…”

Section: Spiritual Anxiety About the Meaning Of The Anthroposmentioning

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How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene

Simangan

2023

Rev. Int. Stud.

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The Anthropocene, a proposed new geological age marking the planetary impact of humanity, is no longer a newcomer to the field of International Relations (IR). Several scholars have recognised the value, as well as the danger, of the Anthropocene for theorising international relations. This article focuses on the existentialist questions and ideas derived from IR’s engagement with the Anthropocene, particularly on the anxieties surrounding the extinction of the human species, the meaning of the Anthropos, and humanity’s planetary stewardship. By drawing on scholarly discourses on these physical, spiritual, and moral anxieties, I argue that existentialist thinking helps expose IR’s anthropocentric, universalist, and hubristic tendencies, which are also prevalent in the broader Anthropocene discourse. It also serves as a reminder of the freedom to explore possibilities, albeit with a lack of certainty, for reimagining the place of humanity and IR as a discipline in this new geological age. Therefore, existentialism reveals IR’s dissonance with the paradoxes and uncertainties that the Anthropocene brings while offering a path toward theorising the “end of the world”.

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Section: Spiritual Anxiety About the Meaning Of The Anthroposmentioning

confidence: 96%

How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene

Simangan

2023

Rev. Int. Stud.

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“…This observation is important not only from the perspective of sustainable availability of resources but also more broadly in terms of the repercussions of changing ocean currents for human livelihoods on land. So far, most advocacy is coming from representatives of Pacific island states who are faced with the prospect of drowning as a consequence of rising ocean levels (Freestone & Schofield, 2021;Simangan, 2021) but there seems to be less urgency elsewhere to reflect on causes and consequences of changing ocean currents. There are no regional governance organizations comparable to the ATS that would be able to lobby effectively for the conservation of the oceanic environment as a whole.…”

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Making Polar and Ocean Governance Future-Proof

Hansen-Magnusson

2022

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Governance institutions of the polar regions, as well as global oceans, may hold room for improvement in terms of effectiveness but, on the whole, their existence can be regarded as a success story. The arrangements managed to pool responsibility for regional resources amid Cold War geopolitics, mostly by delegating discussions to science committees. Changing global climate, however, provides considerable challenges to these governance arrangements. It begs the question of how the success story can be continued into the future. After sketching the emergence of polar and ocean governance and their core organizational principles during the 20th century, this article identifies some of the challenges linked to global warming that have been altering the context of governance fundamentally. The article discusses emerging issues that warrant attention, but which may be difficult to accommodate in present governance networks. Ultimately, the article argues that anchoring principles of “responsibility” that take into account the relational quality of polar and ocean spaces is key to any institutional design that seeks to take governance arrangements into the 21st century and beyond.

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The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)

Brauch

2021

The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science

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Where is the Asia Pacific in mainstream international relations scholarship on the Anthropocene?

Cited by 4 publications

References 90 publications

How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene

How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene

Making Polar and Ocean Governance Future-Proof

The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)

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