Political Lament
Extinction, Grief, and Embodied Silence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4938818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Harvie (0000-0003-3009-6595, St. Mary’s University, Alberta, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-429 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429820960105 |
| OpenAlex | W3088644450 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article confronts the ongoing tragedy of extinction in the Anthropocene from the standpoint of grief and embodied affect. It argues that when confronted with the death of an animal other - be it in public and political settings or in personal encounters of suffering - that silent grief is an embodied form of protest to the triumphalist and anthropocentric narratives of the neoliberal petro-state. In developing an account of suffering and grief from Miguel de Unamuno the argument proceeds to account for an embodied political praxis which subverts political structures aimed at marginalizing animal-others. Finally, in dialogue with Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the article concludes with a reflection on how scholarly activities in the mode of grief might enact relational capacities with the broader animal and natural world
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Grief · Lament · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Tragedy (event · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |