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- Ernstson, Henrik, 1972-, et al.
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Bringing Back the Political : Egalitarian Acting, Performative Theory
- 2019
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In: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene. - Abingdon and New York : Routledge. - 9781138629196 ; , s. 255-267
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The political is categorically and fundamentally performative. Those that gain a voice as equals do not do so by demanding a right to speak within an already policed order, they stage equality and produce new spaces from where equality and freedom can be thought and acted out. This notion of the political, we argue, has to (again) become central in radical and critical theory, urban political ecology (UPE) and associated fields in the coming decade. This concluding essay draws on the chapters of the book to discuss what “politically performative theory” could mean and what challenges and possibilities it brings to a reconfigured UPE and in politicizing the environment.
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- Ernstson, Henrik, 1972-, et al.
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O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene
- 2019
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In: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene. - Abingdon and New York : Routledge. - 9781138629196 ; , s. 25-47
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We develop the term “the Anthropo-obScene” to show how various discourses on “the Anthropocene” have created a set of stages that disavow certain voices and render some forms of acting (human, non-human, and more-than-human) off-stage. Examples include consensual narratives of adaptive, resilient, and geo-engineered governance, but also more-than-human ontologies that, in spite their purported radicality, could lead to a problematic strengthening of technomanagerial discourse. With the Anthropo-obScene, we seek to interrupt the deepening of “immunological bio-politics” and a politicization of the socio-ecological conundrum we are in, while fully and radically embracing our interdependence with non-humans.
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- Ernstson, Henrik, Dr. 1972-, et al.
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Politicizing the Environment in the Urban Century
- 2019
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In: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene. - Abingdon and New York : Routledge. - 9781138629196 ; , s. 3-21
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter focuses on the book’s central theme on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism. Framed against the background of five major transformations that deal with planetary urbanisation to de-politicization, we argue that while UPE and associated fields have offered ways to analyse the politics of nature, they have less to offer in terms of what to do, in terms of thinking with radical political activists about new imaginaries and practices of emancipatory socio-ecological change. In light of this, we present the chapters as enriching the approaches to re-centre the political in thought and action in environmental and urban studies.
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- Henao Castro, Andrés Fabián, et al.
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"Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!" Postcolonial Remains and The Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene
- 2019
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In: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene. - Abingdon and New York : Routledge. - 9781138629196 - 9781138629189 - 9781315210537 ; , s. 69-87
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We use postcolonial theory to interrogate the discourse of €œthe Anthropocene€ and its depoliticizing effects. It is maintained that the way that the Anthropocene€ discourse has been articulated within parts of postcolonial theory is deeply problematic and risks making the political itself categorically unthinkable and ontologically evacuated. In an attempt to disrupt this deadlock, we combine post-foundational and postcolonial theory to propose three performative interruptions against conditions of exclusion—the politics of time, the politics of translation, and the politics of the stage. These build a platform to re-launch the political performativity of subaltern experiences in the here and now.
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