Environmental Domination

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ID6350245
AuthorsSharon R Krause (0000-0001-5026-1784, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume48
Issue4
Pages443-468
Publication date2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591719890833
OpenAlexW4243151536
LanguageEN
Citations received13

In their vulnerability to arbitrary, exploitative uses of human power, many of Earth’s nonhuman parts are subject to environmental domination. People too are subject to environmental domination in ways that include but also extend beyond the special environmental burdens borne by those who are poor and marginalized. Despite the substantial inequalities that exist among us as human beings, we are all captured and exploited by the eco-damaging collective practices that constitute modern life for everyone today. Understanding the complex, interacting dynamics of environmental domination can orient us to a more liberatory approach to our environmental problems and to one another, both human and nonhuman. To make good on this potential, however, we need to move beyond existing conceptions of domination. This essay reconstructs the concept of domination to illuminate the multiple ways that the human domination of nature interacts with the domination of people, and it identifies changes that could support more emancipatory forms of political order, a politics of non-domination for people and the Earth

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy

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