Feeling for the Anthropocene
Affective relations and ecological activism in the global South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4036383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adarsh Badri (0000-0002-0006-3197) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 731-749 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiae010 |
| OpenAlex | W4391532923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
How do emotions shape ecological activism in the global South? Despite growing interest in researching ecological activism in International Relations (IR), there hasn't been much work that draws insights from the global South due to the predominant focus on western societies. Against the backdrop of the recent 'relational', 'emotional' and 'Anthropocene' turns in IR scholarship, this article examines how emotions can contribute to ecological activism in the global South. The article seeks to move beyond the dominant rationalist technocratic fixes to the Anthropocene condition and conceptualize the 'affective relations' as a frame for situating and sustaining relations between humans and nature. It argues that the 'international' in IR is a relational sphere of society-and emotions act as the purveyor of those social relations. Empirically, this article examines historical insights from ecological activism in the Chipko (tree-hugging) movement in India. The article argues that feelings as the non-violent practice (in their hugging of trees, silent demonstrations, protest slogans, street plays, songs and performances) become sites of resistance in ecological activism in India's Chipko movement. Finally, the article explains how affective relations sustain humans, nature and the state
Anthropocene · Biology · Environmental ethics · Feeling · Geography · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Ecology · Philosophy · Social Psychology
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Decolonizing Environmental Politics
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |