Justice for ecosystems 3800-SWE25-S
The classes will focus on contemporary, non-anthropocentric and post-humanistic approaches in environmental ethics and related concepts of justice. We will pay particular attention to relational ethics and ontologies, as well as new concepts of environmental justice, such as interspecies justice, multispecies justice and planetary justice, encompassing not only animals, plants and fungi, but also elements of inanimate nature and entire ecosystems. We will pay particular attention to the idea of nature as a subject of law.
We will therefore examine the concepts of authors such as K. Barad, M. Bookchin, J. D. Chakrabarty, J. Derrida, L. Ferry, A.P. Gumbs, D. Haraway, J, Kovel, W. Kymlicka, B. Latour, M. Marde, A. Naess, J.W. Moore, T, Morton, K. Saito, A. Tsing, et al.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge:
After completion of the seminar, the student
– has systematic knowledge on on contemporary, non-anthropocentric and post-humanistic approaches in environmental ethics;
– distinguishes and characterizes axiological assumptions and ethical implications of selected approaches in that area;
- characterizes selected relational ethics and ontologies;
- defines the concepts of environmental justice, interspecies justice, multispecies justice and planetary justice;
- identifies and describes key controversies in the contemporary debate on rights of nature.
Skills:
After completion of the seminar, the student
– can critically analyse philosophical, scientific and journalist texts and statements on the seminar subjects;
– can formulate, argue properly and present their own position on the seminar subjects and can respond to the criticisms;
– can prepare a written analysis on aspects of the seminar theme.
Social competences:
After completion of the seminar, the student
- recognises the importance of the concept of justice in contemporary debates on environmental ethics;
– can cooperate in a team;
– can discuss issues with respect to the beliefs and attitudes of others;
– is able to participate in in the contemporary debate on rights of nature.
Assessment criteria
- activity during classes (including presence, knowledge of given readings, participation in discussions) – 50%,
- preparation of a seminar paper – 50%.
Two absences are allowed.
Bibliography
The reading list is preliminary and indicative. A detailed one with a schedule will be presented at the first meeting.
Selected excerpts from the following works:
Barad, K. (2023). Spotkanie z wszechświatem w pół drogi: fizyka kwantowa a splątanie materii. S. Królak. (Trans.). Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej i Centrum Animacji Kultury w Poznaniu.
Bińczyk, E. (2023). Jaka sprawiedliwość w epoce antropocenu? Wstępne rozstrzygnięcia i wybrane trudności. „Postscriptum Polonistyczne”, 32(2), 1-19.
Bookchin, M. (2009). Przebudowa społeczeństwa. I. Czyż. (Trans.).Oficyna Wydawnicza Bractwa "Trojka".
Boyd, D.R. (2017). The Rights of Nature. A Legal Revolution That Could Save The World. ECW Press.
Brownhill, L. et al. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism. Routledge.
Calarco, M. (2022). Zoografie: kwestia zwierzęca od Heideggera do Derridy. P. Sadzik, P, Szaj. (Trans.). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej i Centrum Animacji Kultury w Poznaniu.
Chakrabarty, D. (2023). Humanistyka w czasach antropocenu. E. Domańska, M. Sugiera. (Eds.). Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych Universitas.
Corrigan, D.P., M. Oksanen, (Eds.). (2021). Rights of Nature. A Re-Examination. Routledge.
Derrida, J. (2008). The Animal That Therefore I Am. M.-L. Mallet (Eds.). D. Wills (Trans.). Fordham University Press.
Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W. (2018). Zoopolis: teoria polityczna praw zwierząt. M. Wańkowicz, M. Stefański. (Trans.). Oficyna 21.
Ferry, L. (1995). Nowy ład ekologiczny: drzewo, zwierzę i człowiek. A.Miś, H. Miś. (Trans.). Warszawa: Centrum Uniwersalizmu przy Uniwersytecie Warszawskim i Polski Oddział Międzynarodowego Towarzystwa Uniwersalizmu.
Gumbs, A.P. (2024). Niezatapialne: czarny feminizm i ssaki morskie. D, Wasilewska, W. Zalewska. (Trans.). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Współbycie.
Haraway, D.J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Durham: Duke University Press.
Haraway, D.J., Goodeve T.N. (2023). Jestem listotą : Donna J. Haraway w rozmowie z Thyrzą Nichols Goodeve. A. Derra (Trans.). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej i Centrum Animacji Kultury w Poznaniu.
Kauffman, C. M., Martin, P. L. (2021). The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future. MIT Press.
Kovel J. (2007). The Enemy of Nature. The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?. Zed Books.
Latour, B. (2009). Polityka natury: nauki wkraczają do demokracji. A. Czarnacka. (Trans.). Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej.
Latour, B. (2020). Życie laboratoryjne: konstruowanie faktów naukowych. K. Abriszewski, P. Gąska, M. Smoczyński, A. Zabielski. (Trans.). Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2020.
Marder, M. (2024). Myślenie roślin: filozofia wegetacji. Ł. Kraj (Trans.). Słowo/obraz terytoria.
Moore, J. W. (Red.) (2021). Antropocen czy kapitałocen?: natura, historia i kryzys. K. Hoffmann, P. Szaj, W. Szwebs. (Trans.). WBPiCAK.
Morton, T. (2023). Mroczna ekologia: ku logice przyszłego współistnienia. A.Barcz. (Ed.). Oficyna Związek Otwarty.
Naess, A. (2005). Deep Ecology of Wisdom: Explorations in Unities of Nature and Cultures Selected Papers. Selected Works. V. 10. H. Glasser. A. Drengson. (Red.). Springer.
Napoletano, B. M., & Clark, B. (2020). An ecological-marxist response to the half-earth project.” Conservation and Society”, 18(1), 37-49.
Pellow, D.N. (2018). What is Critical Environmental Justice? Polity Press.
R-H. Andersson, B. Cothran, S. Kekki. (Eds.). Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature. Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature. Helsinki University Press.
Roy, B., Hanaček, K. (2023). From the environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous toward decolonial environmental justice. In S. Villamayor-Tomas, R. Muradian. (Eds.). The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology: A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier (s. 305-315). Springer International Publishing.
Saito, K. (2023). Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism. Cambridge University Press.
Schlosberg, D. (2013). Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse. Environmental politics, 22(1), 37-55.
Sławek, Tadeusz. (2020). Śladem zwierząt: o dochodzeniu do siebie. Fundacja Terytoria Książki, 2020.
Stone, C. D. (1972). Should trees have standing? —Toward legal rights for natural objects. Southern California Law Review 45, 450-501.
Tanasescu, M. (2022). Understanding the rights of nature: a critical introduction. Transcript Verlag.
Temper, L. (2019). Blocking pipelines, unsettling environmental justice: From rights of nature to responsibility to territory. Local Environment, 24(2), 94-112.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. (2024). Grzyb u kresu świata: o możliwości życia na ruinach kapitalizmu. M. Rogowska-Stangret, A. Ross, J. Grygieńć. (Trans.). Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika.
Ulloa, A. (2017). Perspectives of environmental justice from Indigenous peoples of Latin America: A relational Indigenous environmental justice. Environmental Justice, 10(6), 175-180.
Wilson, E.O. (2017). Pół Ziemi: walka naszej planety o życie. B. Baran. (Trans.). Wydawnictwo Aletheia.
Winter, C. J., & Schlosberg, D. (2024). What matter matters as a matter of justice?. Environmental politics, 33(7), 1205-1224.
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