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O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology
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Abstract Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal... view more
Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human. This volume includes interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Leela Gandhi and Leanne Simpson.... view less
Keywords
ethics; nature; society; politics; theory; ecology; friendship; community; sustainability; cultural anthropology
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
Borderlessness; Environmental Ethics; Human-Animal Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
122 p.
Series
New Ecology, 9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470268
ISSN
2703-1039
ISBN
978-3-8394-7026-8
Status
Published Version; reviewed