Multispecies Justice and Human Inequalities: Risks in Theorizing Anti-Anthropocentric Politics

Human status categories have ceased to be the ontological prerogative of humans alone, and this paradigm shift carries broad ethical implications. In this essay, we investigate the concept of multispecies justice (MSJ), as it seeks to overcome the humanistic-liberal construct of justice, without...

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Main Authors: Terragni, Claudia, Cesaroni, Valeria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari 2023-12-01
Series:JoLMA
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/004
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Summary:Human status categories have ceased to be the ontological prerogative of humans alone, and this paradigm shift carries broad ethical implications. In this essay, we investigate the concept of multispecies justice (MSJ), as it seeks to overcome the humanistic-liberal construct of justice, without sliding back into an anthropomorphisation of the nonhuman. We engage with the political limits of MSJ, as it fails to grasp a critical-genetic discourse on the historical materiality of inequalities. We advance the urgency for a more politically engaged posthumanism, as it runs the risk of becoming completely detached from current social struggles
ISSN:2723-9640