The Black Horizon

Alterity and Ontology in the Anthropocene

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ID8105564
AuthorsFarai Chipato (0000-0001-9122-9764, University of Glasgow), David Chandler (0000-0002-2766-7169, University of Westminster, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume37
Issue2
Pages157-175
Publication date2022-08-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-0826 • E-ISSN: 1469-798X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13600826.2022.2110041
OpenAlexW4290988647
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited64

This paper makes the case for an approach to International Relations in the Anthropocene, which draws upon resources from critical Black studies. This distinctive perspective is set out in comparison to two, more familiar, sets of critical Anthropocene thought, that have been influential in contemporary discussions of global politics. We heuristically frame these as the “Planetary” - a focus on ontology and vibrant and unruly materiality – and the “Pluriversal” - which places race and coloniality at the centre of our understanding of power and knowledge. We suggest that Planetary approaches underestimate the centrality of race and coloniality to questions of ontology and that Pluriversal approaches are often undermined by a failure to take ontology more seriously. These literatures are opposed to a third perspective, which we call the “Black Horizon”, which troubles our approach to alterity and works with a non- or para-ontological understanding of being

Aesthetics · Alterity · Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Frame (networking · Materiality (auditing · Ontology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Artificial Intelligence · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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