Full Description
What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography, philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary art answer these questions from diverse grounded locations. In America, Indigenous peoples and prisoners are decolonizing multispecies relations in unceded territory and carceral landscapes. Small justices are emerging in Tanzanian markets, near banana plantations in the Philippines, and in abandoned buildings of Azerbaijan as people navigate relations with feral dogs, weeds, rats, and pesticides. Conflicts over rights of nature are intensifying in Colombia's Amazon. Specters of justice are emerging in India, while children in Micronesia memorialize extinct bird species. Engaging with ideas about environmental justice, restorative justice, and other species of justice, The Promise of Multispecies Justice holds open the possibility of flourishing in multispecies worlds, present and to come.
Contributors. Karin Bolender, Sophie Chao, M. L. Clark, Radhika Govindrajan, Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar, Noriko Ishiyama, Eben Kirksey, Elizabeth Lara, Jia Hui Lee, Kristina Lyons, Michael Marder, Alyssa Paredes, Craig Santos Perez, Kim TallBear
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Who Benefits from Multispecies Justice? / Eben Kirksey and Sophie Chao 1
Glossary. Species of Justice / Sophie Chao and Eben Kirksey 23
Blessing. Thanksgiving in the Plantationocene / Craig Santos Perez 29
1. Spectral Justice / Radhika Govindrajan 33
2. Rights of the Amazon in Cosmopolitical Worlds / Kristina Lyons 53
3. "We Are Not Pests" / Alyssa Paredes 77
4. Prison Gardens and Growing Abolition / Elizabeth Lara 103
5. Justice at the Ends of the Worlds / Michael Marder 125
6. from the micronesian kingfisher / Craig Santos Perez 139
7. Rodent Trapping and the Just Possible / Jia Hui Lee 157
8. Inscribing the Interspecies Gap / M. L. Clark 179
9. Nuclear Waste and Relational Accountability in Indian Country / Noriko Ishiyama and Kim Tallbear 185
10. Multispecies Mediations in a Post-Extractive Zone / Zsuzsanna Ihar 205
Closing. Th S xth M ss Ext nci n / Craig Santos Perez 227
Afterword. Fugitive Jurisdictions / Karin Bolender, Sophie Chao, and Eben Kirksey 229
Bibliography 239
Contributors 273
Index 277
