Banwell, Stacy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7395-2617 (2023) Exploring relational, political ecology, indigenous and arts-based perspectives on socionature justice. In: Development Studies Association (DSA) 2023 Conference: Social Justice and Development in a Polarising World: Rights and Representation; Redistribution and Restoration; Reproduction and Production", 26th - 28th June 2024, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Preview

PDF (Abstract of Conference Paper) 47636_BANWELL_Exploring_Relational_Political_Ecology_Indigenous_(ABSTRACT CONFERENCE PAPER)_2024.pdf - Other Download (35kB) | Preview

Abstract

Building on an initial exploration on this theme at DSA 2023 Conference, we propose a panel that focuses upon relational perspectives on socionature justice and what these can offer to mainstream development and environment discourse and practice. The concept of socionatures emphasizes the inherent interdependencies and entanglements between the social and the natural, rejecting rigid dichotomies between humans and nature (i.e. a non-dualist approach), and foregrounds processes of becoming. Research in this field unpacks the process of production creating socionatures, as well as the labours and agency or vitality of the human, non-human and inhuman and the uneven power relationships involved (Bear, 2017). Relational philosophies include many Indigenous cosmologies, but also some Eastern religions and academic scholarship on relationality, including affect theory (Deleuze and Gattari, 1993), the more-than-human (e.g. Haraway, 2016), animism and emotional ecologies (González-Hidalgo, M., and Zografos, 2020). We invite papers, presentations and artworks that creatively explore new ways of thinking and being, drawing upon and contributing to relational and Indigenous philosophies, new materialisms and eco-Marxism, to explore the implications for (post)-development and decolonial approaches. We encourage submissions from political ecology, relationality, environmental sociology and anthropology, and arts scholars and practitioners, and Indigenous scholars and representatives. Collectively, we hope to explore pathways to pluriversal (Escobar, 2018), socionature justices. We ask what are the barriers, opportunities and assemblages needed to stimulate progressive change based on ethics of care and solidarity? We also invite consideration of methodological innovations and implications for research practice of such relational perspectives.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Other)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	relationality and socio-nature justice, DSASocial justice and development in a polarising world rights and representation, redistribution and restoration, reproduction and production
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) K Law > K Law (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Law and Criminology
Last Modified:	08 Sep 2026 16:15
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47636

Actions (login required)

View Item

Downloads