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Roundtable on Institutionalising Multispecies and Planetary Justice
Time:
Wednesday, 25/Oct/2023:
8:30am - 10:00am
Location:GR -1.075
Session Conference Streams:
Democracy and Power, Justice and Allocation
Presentations
Roundtable on Institutionalising Multispecies and Planetary Justice
Chair(s): David Schlosberg (University of Sydney, Australia)
Presenter(s): Anthony Burke (UNSW), Danielle Celermajer (University of Sydney), Stefanie Fishel (University of Sunshine Coast), Tobias Muller (The New Institute, Germany, and Yale University, USA), Cristina Inoue (Radboud University), Agni Kalfagianni (Utrecht University), Stefan Pedersen (Sussex)
Fundamental to the models of growth and progress assumed in hegemonic western legal, economic, and political systems isan extractive relationship with other animals, forests, rivers, oceans and soils, or what we might collectively call ‘the more-than-human’. Now, however, climate change, deforestation, river and ocean toxicity, soil depletion, pandemics, biodiversityloss, and the emergent and intensifying crises of food, energy, clean water, disasters, and subsequent refugee flows andpolitical conflict combine to make clear that the normalized extractive relationship between humans and beings other than humans generates highly negative outcomes for both.
This current convergence of environmental, social, political, and cultural crises, or the polycrisis, clearly illustrates that forms ofsocial and political organisation that assume the promotion of human good or development at the cost of the more-than-human world result in the erosion of the conditions of all life. A transformative approach to governing the polycrisis mustaddress the foundational and pathological failure to appreciate the entanglement of human and more-than-human worlds.
A transformation of the institutions that encode and operationalise human exceptionalism, and that render the more-than-human as exploitable resource, is required. Such transformative governance requires fundamental systemic change. First,beings other than humans must count as subjectsof justice. Second, decision making must be informed by an understandingof the fundamentally relational nature of human and more-than-human interests; this requires a shift in the practices of representation to include the more-than-human.
This roundtable will be an open discussion amongst scholars who have been working on various aspects of planetary justice, multispecies justice, and models of more representative and ecological democracy. It will focus on the relationship across these concepts, with an eye toward the design of governance institutions fit for both the polycrisis and the necessity of institutions and practices that include planetary and multispecies subjects.
