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creators_name: Randazzo, Elisa
creators_name: Richter, Hannah
title: Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: J39
note: © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: This paper brings the narratives of the environmental activist groups Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Fridays for Future into conversation with Critical Anthropocene Theory and Indigenous environmentalism to interrogate pathways for and limits of environmental political action under planetary conditions marked by nonhuman shaping power. Critical Anthropocene Theory, the paper argues, can problematise the simplistic positivism and managerialism of the new ‘extinction activism’. However, the conversation with Indigenous environmental practices, which flexibly manage tensions within human-nonhuman relations and centre radical social impact, reveals the political limitations of both extinction activism and critical Anthropocene thinking. The paper distinguishes the logic of fast change within existing socio-political parameters, which drives extinction activism, from Critical Anthropocene Theory's focus on ontological change as a precondition for a non-exploitative environmental politics, which deprioritises activist practice. Different from both, the paper argues that Indigenous environmental activism is marked by a yet different pragmatic approach, where both modern and non-modern political means are mobilised towards radical change. Indigenous environmentalism is marked by the dynamic co-evolution of cosmology and politics and moves flexibly between modern/nonmodern boundaries, highlighting new pathways for political action in the relational Anthropocene.
date: 2024-06
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
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elements_id: 2270879
doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107
lyricists_name: Randazzo, Elisa
lyricists_id: ERAND36
actors_name: Randazzo, Elisa
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actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Political Geography
volume: 112
article_number: 103107
issn: 0962-6298
citation:        Randazzo, Elisa;    Richter, Hannah;      (2024)    Political action in planetary times: Extinction activism, Anthropocene ontopolitics, indigenous complexities.                   Political Geography , 112     , Article 103107.  10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103107>.       Green open access   
 
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