| Summary: | <p class="Abstract">We are now living in the epoch of Anthropocene—the epoch
wherein human and nonhuman beings have become increasingly involved. The
Anthropocene was also a mark to determine human existence begin to overwhelm
biological and geological forms and displace the Holocene era. Indonesia is the one in many countries
facing ecological crisis. The widespread of global monocultures such as
sugarcane, cacao, oil palm and tea plantations are examples of providing an
intolerance of diversity, meaning that only putting human <i>desires</i> above
all of nonhuman species. The era also shows the struggles for social
justice towards nonhuman beings. Hence, this paper expects to discuss
conceptual and pragmatical levels of the Anthropocene in the more-than-humans’ anthropological
studies. Meanwhile, anthropology and any sub-disciplines take<span style="color:red"> </span>“ontological
turn” into account. Talking ontological anthropology is also a way of
rethinking and requestioning the division and dichotomy between nature and
culture, technology and society, human, and nonhuman beings, and so on. So, our
research question is how “ontological turn” contributes to making social
justice towards multispecies and geological life. Justice has been a great deal to preserve only humans based on
Eurocentric perception and thought. By giving social justice to more-than-human
realms is also resolving both “epistemologies of ignorance” and indigenous-led
decolonization. Alternatively, ontological anthropology provides the ability to
give a “voice” to more-than-human beings in order to have equal footing as
humans. Therefore, against the Anthropocene means collapsing ‘the divide’
between culture and nature, human and non-human, and so on. Besides, the turn
to anthropology of ontology also means demanding collaborations and balance
between humans and nonhuman beings in the Anthropocene. The introductory
anthropology of ontology could potentially open pathways of future
possibilities for methodological and theoretical standpoints towards
more-than-human realms in Indonesia.<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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