What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of ExclusionBy foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move beyond an anthropocentric worldview. Yet as Eva Haifa Giraud contends in What Comes after Entanglement?, for all their conceptual power in implicating humans in ecologically damaging practices, these theories can undermine scope for political action. Drawing inspiration from activist projects between the 1980s and the present that range from anticapitalist media experiments and vegan food activism to social media campaigns against animal research, Giraud explores possibilities for action while fleshing out the tensions between theory and practice. Rather than an activist ethics based solely on relationality and entanglement, Giraud calls for what she describes as an ethics of exclusion, which would attend to the entities, practices, and ways of being that are foreclosed when other entangled realities are realized. Such an ethics of exclusion emphasizes foreclosures in the context of human entanglement in order to foster the conditions for people to create meaningful political change. |
Contents
Articulations | |
Uneven Burdens of Risk | |
Performing Responsibility | |
Hierarchies of Care | |
Ambivalent Popularity | |
An Ethics of Exclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Other editions - View all
What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of ... Eva Haifa Giraud No preview available - 2019 |
What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of ... Eva Haifa Giraud No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
activists actors affective alternative animal research animal rights anthropocentric anticapitalist approaches argues arguments articulation Barad beagles Bellacasa Biopolitics broader Brown Dog Affair campaign charisma communities complex conceptual cosmopolitical create space critique debates discussed documentary Donna Haraway Dooren drawing attention ecologies elucidate emerged emphasis engaged entanglement environments everyday exclusions experimental feminist film focus focused food activism Food Not Bombs foreclosed foreground forms Geographies Giraud global global justice movement Green Hill groups Haraway Haraway's hierarchies Hollin human exceptionalism important Indymedia inequalities infrastructures instance intervention issues London Lorimer McDonald’s McLibel McLibel trial McSpotlight modes more-than-human MPTP multispecies narratives nonhuman norms offer ontological particular perspectives Pickerill political Posthuman practices previous chapter primate problems productive protest camps Puig questions relationality representations responsibility role situated social media social movement Society sociotechnical Species Meet specific Stengers tactics tensions theoretical contexts Theory throughout the book turtles University Press vegan Wildlife Zapatista