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The climate crisis poses an existential threat to life on this planet and demands immediate action and forms of solidarity. In this dissertation, I explore how music can be leveraged to transform the shape and dynamics of solidarity frameworks in ways that are conducive to multi-species flourishing and modes of solidarity with a more-than-human world. I deploy a critical posthumanist (Braidotti, 2013, 2019) framework to amplify musical praxis as an ethical, affective, extra-linguistic, and “strategically transversal” mode of communicative engagement that opens possibilities for empathy and alliance beyond the particularist-universalist dichotomy that structures familiar but insufficient configurations of belonging—obligation. My central argument is that music can valuably contribute to more-than-human cartographic practices as they are articulated within a critical posthumanist paradigm and activate multi-species “response-abilities” (Haraway, 2016) and practices of care for the more-than-human world, and therefore has an important role to play in the service of climate justice. |
