Doerthe Rosenow

Un-making Environmental Activism (eBook, PDF)

Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers anl innovative theoretical approach that is able to think outside the box of established academic disciplines and theoretical schools of thought, through the lens of environmental activism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317228851
• Artikelnr.: 50214066

Autorenporträt

Doerthe Rosenow is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. She is interested in the theorisation and analysis of political struggle in relation to understandings of nature, particularly from perspectives that engage notions of materiality and (de-)coloniality. Her research is interdisciplinary, crossing over the boundaries of International Relations, political theory, human geography, anthropology, and continental philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. Un-making Environmental Activism: An Introduction
Anti-GMO Activism Past and Present
The 'Radical' Argument Against Science-Based Environmentalism
Moving Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries? The New Materialisms and Latour's Politics of the Collective
Starting from Historical Oppression: The Problem of Colonial Difference
Chapter Outline
Chapter 2: 'No One Knows What an Environment Can Do....': From Facts to Concerns in the GMO Controversy
Man/Gene
Man/Gene's Governance of the World
Dance of Life
In Place of a Conclusion: (Un)Making GMOs in the Collective
Chapter 3. Voices and Visibilities: The Indian Bt Cotton Controversy
Who's Speaking? Indian Smallholders and Bt Cotton
Finding a Voice in Speaking Through/With Nonhumans
The Wild Being of Statements and Visibilities
States and Machines: Thinking Differently About BT Cotton
Conclusion: Decolonising Anti-GMO Activism
Chapter 4. Travelling 'Worlds': The Protest of the Intercontinental Caravan
A Politics of Network? The Global Justice Movement
'World'-Travelling and Multiple Selves: An Introduction to Maria Lugones
'In Asia Great Leaders are Expected and Revered': The Colonial Logic of the Intercontinental Caravan
Pilgrimage and Streetwalking: The Decolonial Option
Connecting Through 'Things': Becoming a Faithful Witness to Oppression
Conclusion: Towards Love and Play in Global (Environmental) Protest)
Conclusion
Towards (More) Reality
Reflections on Method
Sense and Love: Beyond the Monologue
Streetwalking: Developing Strategies out of Concrete Encounters
An Anti-GMO Activist Manifesto
References
Index