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

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...

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Published in:Environmental politics 2021-02, Vol.30 (1-2), p.119-140
Main Authors: Celermajer, Danielle, Schlosberg, David, Rickards, Lauren, Stewart-Harawira, Makere, Thaler, Mathias, Tschakert, Petra, Verlie, Blanche, Winter, Christine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decolonization
Discourse
Environmental justice
environmental political theory
Hegemony
Justice
Multispecies justice
Political communication
Political discourse
Political science theories
Politics
Reconfiguration
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0964-4016
1743-8934
DOI:10.1080/09644016.2020.1827608