Thanks Annie 🙌 we need it all, don't we - policy change, institutional change, systemic change but also cultural change to underpin and sustain these.

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We need to theorise and envision cultural change at scale and pace - and perhaps look to #Rojava for inspiration #DAANES

#DefendRojava

@defendrojava.bsky.social

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In legal frameworks dominated by Cartesian nature/culture divides, #RightsofNature may impute relational ontologies

RoN can thereby create cultural change towards recognising nature as a living being, legal person and political agent. As such, they should be part of #degrowth policy proposals.

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#RightsofNature can impute relational worldviews, while of course they're embedded within liberal rights discourses & colonial categories of property and separation.

I argue that RoN are ‘non-reformist reforms’ drawing on work by Andre Gorz, Barbara Muraca & Panos Petridis.

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I suggest that in practice, cosmological limits can be enshrined through granting legal personhood to nature.

#RightsofNature can open up new ways of perceiving nature in places in which it is normally considered a resource, or source of leisure and respite.

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These constraints arise out of reciprocal relationships between humans & nature. Re-articulating cosmological limits to growth would re-cast humans as part of the living world. It could mean practicing context-dependent, locally relevant human-nature solidarity + reciprocity
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I analyse the reciprocal practices, behaviours & rituals I observed and participated in during my doctoral research, and argue that a political ontology of relationality sets cosmological limits to growth, that is, normative constraints to the destruction of the living world

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These arguments emerge from an inter-epistemic dialogue between degrowth and Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay, an Andean-Amazonian conceptualisation of Good Living – an introduction to which can be found here:

journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...

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In it, I argue that cultural change is an integral part of sustainability transformations.

I suggest specific cultural and political tools towards non-anthropocentric & de-individualised sustainability visions.

This is building on lots of previous good work on cultural politics / degrowth.

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Thanks Willy!