Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human
Arturo Escobar,Michal Osterweil,Kriti Sharma
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts June 2024, 2024
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- Title
- Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human
- Author
- Arturo Escobar,Michal Osterweil,Kriti Sharma
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts June 2024
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350225967
- ISBN 13
- 9781350225961
- Seller catalogs
- Non-Fiction
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things.
The authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large.
The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life.
The authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical, scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living within seemingly ineluctable ‘toxic loops’ of unrelational living (based on ontological dualism), to living within ‘relational weaves’ which we might co-create with multiple human and nonhuman others.
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About the Author
Michal Osterweil is Teaching Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, USA. She is also a radical homemaker and community actionist. Her main areas of interest are social movements, new theories/imaginaries of social change and the intersection of knowledge production, epistemology and change work.
Kriti Sharma is Postdoctoral Scholar in microbial ecology in the division of Geology and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of Interdependence: Biology and Beyond (2015). Her main interests are microbiology and microbial ecology, philosophy and social sciences of biology, and ontology and metaphysics.
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