Post-anthropocentric Transformations of Consumption in the Anthropocene: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide
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2024-08-19
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en
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19
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This chapter argues for the necessity of a fundamental paradigmatic change in the social organizing of the relation between nature and culture, leaving behind the prevailing anthropocentrism and capitalist production model that have generated the contemporary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. Basically, we discuss a set of contemporary theoretical challenges to the nature- culture divide to reflect on a set of principles for reorganization of prevailing production and consumption processes. Based on this reconsideration, we investigate three streams of thought and their interlinkages that each can contribute to a rethinking of the culture-nature relationship. These are biosemiotics, alternative hedonism and neo-animism respectively. We conclude that only a paradigmatic change which simultaneously respects the human imaginary constitution while reinserting the human activities in the global set of interrelated ecosystems and respecting the balances for a long-term viability of these systems will provide a template for a positive and truly transformative policy.Description
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Alternative hedonism, Biosemiotics, Culture/nature divide, Neo-animism, Post-anthropocentric approaches
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Askegaard, S, Bajde, D & Arnould, E 2024, Post-anthropocentric Transformations of Consumption in the Anthropocene: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide . in The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation . De Gruyter, pp. 49-67 . https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110986945-003