ABSTRACT

The climate emergency demands that principles and practices of justice and injustice, harm, loss, suffering, and hope are revisited, to encompass both the human and the natural world and the many interconnections between them. Following work on the Unknown Other in climate justice discourse, I examine a relational space of proximity, empathy, and responsibility across human and non-human Others to advance current understandings of multispecies justice. Via four types of encounters – the visual, the embodied, the ethical, and the political – it is possible to engage in empathetic experiences with and enact responsibility toward infinite other beings and confront layers of shared vulnerabilities and histories of silencing and erasures. These encounters across space and time make tangible what a nature of human and more-than-human togetherness and solidarity may look like and what ethics and politics would be required to overcome untenable human exceptionalism in today’s crises.

摘要

气候紧急情况要求重新审视正义与不公正、伤害、损失、苦难和希望的原则和实践，以涵盖人类和自然世界以及它们之间的许多相互联系。在气候正义话语中对未知他者的研究之后，我研究了人类和非人类他者之间的接近、同理心和责任的关系空间，以推进当前对多物种正义的理解。通过四种类型的相遇——视觉的、体现的、伦理的和政治的——可以与无限的其他生物进行移情体验并承担责任，并面对层层共享的脆弱性以及沉默和抹去的历史。