In this opening volume to a trilogy of works critiquing and undermining our approach to our environment, Ariel Salleh argues we need a new word for the contemporary age: the Androscene. This concept establishes patriarchal capitalist coloniality as the foundational issue destroying both the planet and the lives and exist with it. The Androscene is the deepest most intractable fracture of humans from the wider world of natural relations. Salleh peels away the most recent and overt political layers back to their historical source and the healing rediscovery of matristic values.
This is a truly intersectional approach to the ecological crisis - one that doesn't prioritise one species over another (e.g. humans over animals) a particular gender over another (the problem of systematic patriarchy) one race or nation over each other or accept the uneven spread of wealth and resources throughout the globe. Salleh takes as her premise that if all these issues intersect, we need to decolonialise the language and thinking we use to dismantle these overlapping worlds of inequality.
Foreword
1. Resisting Extinction - Youth Joins the Dots
The Anthropocene - The Androscene - 1/0 logic - Entangled Frames
2. Terra Nullius - Consuming Lands and Bodies
Extractivism - Exterminism - Biocolonialism - The Master Law
3. The 2030 Agenda - UN Sustainable Development Goals
Fixing Poverty - Redesign Initiative - Finance - Old Episteme - False Consensus - Another Way
4. Global Synergies - Livelihoods or Lifestyles?
The Activist - The Teacher
5. Nuclear Risks - Voices for Life-on-Earth
Denialism - Women's Collectives - For Life-on-Earth - Enough Looting! - Postscript
6. Green New Deals - for Globalisation Lite
UK & UNEP - Transatlantic - Australia - US Democrats - EU & DiEM25 - DSA-USA - Othered-deals
7. Buen Vivir - Ecomodernist v Andean Strategy
Strategy I - Embodying Debt - Strategy II - Back to Dependency - Metabolic Value - Eco-Sufficiency
8. Climate Science - and Water - Coming to our Senses
Carbon Fetishism - Methodological Forcing - Scale v Responsibility - People's Science
Conclusion
9. The Gene Trade - Organised Irresponsibility
Measurable Units - Unpredictable Risk - Matters Outstanding - Co-existence - Synthetic Biology - Andro ethics
10. Another Future is Possible! - Holding Ground
Others - Hierarchy - Stakeholders - Coloniality - Bio-civilisation - Hope
11. Earth Governance - Uncertainty Principle Revisited
Conceptual Fit - Multi-scalar - Ecomodernism - Boundaries - Complexity - Steering Laissez-faire - Validity
12. Food Sovereignty - Another Way in China
Internal Colonies - Benefit-sharing? - Racist Science - Meta-industrial Labour
13. The Smart ResSet - Digitised Citizens
The Fourth IR - Internet of Things - Captured Agencies - Climate Impacts - Colonising Space
14. The Androscene - Structures of Feeling
Nonidentity - Anthro or Andro - Pre-Oedipal dynamic - Fathers of Affect - Posthuman Actants - Hyper-objects
15. Testing Coloniality - Everyday Contradictions
Modernity - Data Sovereignty - Double-binds - Decoupling? - Convivial Degrowth
16. Re-Worlding - A Prefigurative Commons
Local is Global - Good Fit with Country
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