Book launch: subjects of intergenerational justice
To whom (and what) do we owe responsibilities of justice? What happens to ideas of intergenerational and environmental justice if we drop the fiction of individualism? Are there conceptions of time and space beyond progress and resources that assist us conceive of justice for the future? Why is the decolonisation of theory and politics important for the future of the planet and as a matter of justice?
To launch Postdoctoral Fellow Christine Winter’s new book, Subjects of Intergenerational Justice: Indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships, we invite you to join Christine and three key scholars, each of whom have contributed significantly to this research, as they challenge mainstream western ideas of intergenerational environmental justice in a manner that privileges Indigenous philosophies.
This event was presented online on 7 December, 2021.
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Speakers
Christine Winter is a lecturer in the Department of Government & International Relations at the University of Sydney and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute. Her research focuses on intergenerational, Indigenous environmental and multispecies justice. Drawing on her Anglo-Celtic-Māori cultural heritage she is interested in decolonising political theory by identifying key epistemological and ontological assumptions that are incompatible with Indigenous philosophies. Christine has just published her first book, Subjects of Intergenerational Justice: Indigenous philosophy, the environment and relationships available to purchase now.
Joni Adamson is President’s Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Future Laboratory at Arizona State University. She writes on the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences, the design of desirable futures, climate fiction and film, & Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies. She is co-editor of the Routledge Environmental Humanities Book Series.
Sophie Chao is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and the Charles Perkins Centre. Sophie’s research thus far has focused on exploring the intersections of capitalism, ecology, and indigeneity in Indonesia, with a specific focus on changing interspecies relations in the context of deforestation and agribusiness development. Her current research deploys inter-disciplinary methods to explore the nutritional and cultural impacts of agribusiness on indigenous food-based socialities, identities, and ecologies.
David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute. His work focuses on contemporary environmental and environmental justice movements, environment and everyday life, and climate adaptation planning and policy.
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