Bequeathing a World
Ecological Inheritance, Generational Conflict, and Dispossession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Weston (0000-0002-9524-7334, University of Virginia, USA [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 106-123 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2022.400208 |
| OpenAlex | W4295957174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
In recent debates about climate change, a transmission model of ecological inheritance has apportioned responsibility for ecological damage to generations portrayed as locked in conflict, while depicting Earth as a worldly possession capable of being assigned to a set of heirs. With a focus on North America, this article examines assumptions about ownership, possession, dispositional authority, and succession embedded in the trope of bequeathing an ecologically compromised world to a receiving generation that worries it might be the last. Many of these assumptions create exclusions for those who already apprehend themselves as dispossessed. Indigenous conceptions of responsibility, temporality, and place suggest ways to begin to decolonise the rhetoric of ecological inheritance, allowing humans to inhabit the everyday under signs other than extinction, regardless of how things turn out
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Literature · Rhetoric · Sociology · Temporality · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Ecology
Essays on the sociology of knowledge.
The Vanishing Hectare
Death and the Ancestors
Ancient Law
Generation in Anthropology
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis
Imagining Extinction
Terrestrial Lessons
Colonial Lives of Property
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Inalienable Possessions
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Nature of Borders
Great Transformation
Being together in place
Reproduction and Inheritance
Territory as Analytic
Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |