Climate justice in more-than-human worlds

Theories of climate justice retain a persistent tension between transcorporeal entanglement and coherent individuality. The ontology of bodily separation required for accountability for polluters and reparation for the vulnerable enacts a worldview potentially inconsistent with the more-than-human r...

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Published in:Environmental politics 2022-02, Vol.31 (2), p.297-319
Main Author: Verlie, Blanche
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Aspiration
breath
bushfire smoke
Climate change
Climate justice
Entanglement
Forest & brush fires
Human body
new materialism
Ontology
Pollution
Posthuman
Regeneration
relational
Reparations
Respiration
toxic embodiment
Wildfires
Worldview
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Summary:Theories of climate justice retain a persistent tension between transcorporeal entanglement and coherent individuality. The ontology of bodily separation required for accountability for polluters and reparation for the vulnerable enacts a worldview potentially inconsistent with the more-than-human relationality of climate change. Yet theories of material agency and posthuman becoming are criticised for offering limited guidance for political practice. Engaging with the bushfire smoke that blanketed eastern Australia throughout 2019/2020, I seek to revitalise climate justice by engaging with theories of more-than-human transcorporeality. To do so, I articulate an aspirational climate justice, where aspiration is understood as a yearning arising from inhibited breath. Aspirational climate justice considers the relationally composed human and non-human bodies that breathe, as well as the relationship - respiration - itself, as subjects, and offers a politics through which we might keep breathing together towards a more liveable world.
ISSN:0964-4016
1743-8934
DOI:10.1080/09644016.2021.1981081