Environmental Politics· 2020Q1
Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics
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This essay introduces multispecies justice as a new framework for environmental politics, challenging liberal theory by broadening the subject of justice beyond humans and demanding new forms of recognition and political communication.
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Key points
- Multispecies justice reconfigures environmental politics by challenging liberal theories of justice.
- It broadens the subject of justice to include non-human species.
- Key concerns include new means and processes of recognition and misrecognition.
- Decolonizing liberal political discourse is crucial for developing multispecies justice.
- A research agenda is proposed for policy and political communication.
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Abstract
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.
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Field: Geography, Planning and Development
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