| Autor: |
Manuela Lavinas Picq |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
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| Zdroj: |
Natural Resources and Sustainable Development ISBN: 9781783478385 |
| DOI: |
10.4337/9781783478385.00015 |
| Popis: |
theory and concrete reality. A multi-sited IR encompassing Amazonia could offer an opportunity to employ specific modes of inquiry to contribute to global understandings (ethnography in the world system to ethnography of the world system). It implies more than bringing IR to the Amazon; it means using Amazonia as an analytical category in the construction of theory. Such an approach also permits us to move beyond the immediacy of our different experiences in the core and the non-core (Scott in Zimmerman 2013:337), allowing us to escape the trap of thinking in terms of incommensurable experiences. Further, an Amazon-based approach to world politics could provide alternative ways of conceptualizing nature in debates about climate change. There are some problems in the way the global North conceptualizes nature. Take for instance two scenarios of North American environmentalism and recent debates on the anthropocene. One concentrated on the conservation of “wild” landscapes, protecting Indigenous Amazonians for being part of wild rainforests. The others posits Amazonians as part of the human species that is generating irreversible climate change. In both cases, Amazonians are portrayed as lacking agency in a sort of conceptual absolutism. Neither perspective acknowledges the complexity of their agency. Perhaps integrating international perspectives from natural peripheries like the Amazon (and the Sahara and the Arctic) is one way to expand existing ways of seeing the climate change debate. Perceptions of a wild Amazon betray the divide between politics and nature and the difficulty the West/global North has in conceptualizing a post-enlightenment relationship between men and nature. An Amazonian IR defies the enduring antithesis between state and nature. Bringing the Amazon into IR will not only shed light on invisible histories and emancipate IR scholarship. It can also inspire new ways to bridge the North-South divide on environmental policy. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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