Concluding Discussion: The planetary is not the end of the international
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Drawing on chapters of this book as well as wider literatures, in this concluding chapter I first situate the relative invisibility of non-human nature in IR, pointing to the demise of geopolitics around the Second World War as part of a wider bifurcation of knowledge into “social” and “natural” sciences. Secondly, I argue that current attempts to take account of non-human nature have tended to bring with them globalist framings that underplay or even obscure the importance of the international. Thirdly, I outline an outlook that does not feature prominently in the rest of this book, but which might provide an additional way of further developing its goals, allowing a theorisation of society that has the non-human at its core to form the building block for a materialist theory of the international. The overall aim is to take stock of attempts to grasp how the metabolism between humans and non-human nature is itself multiple, intrinsically bound up with and marked by relations between societies—separate yet coexisting socio-ecological entities.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Nonhuman Nature and World Politics : Theory and Practice |
Editors | Joana Pereira, André Saramago |
Number of pages | 16 |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 27 Aug 2020 |
Pages | 337-352 |
Chapter | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 27 Aug 2020 |
Series | Frontiers in International Relations |
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ISSN | 2662-9429 |
ID: 247507822