Description
The Anthropocene entails new ethical dilemmas and shows the futility of abstract ethical norms detached from everyday world politics. In this new planetary context, the rights of nature paradigm transcends national constitutions and jurisprudences. On the one hand, it represents the recognition of the intrinsic values of nature as well as the complex, dynamic and everchanging net of human/non-human/more-than-human relationalities and interdependencies that form the web of life. On the other hand, it also demonstrates the interdependency of and continuity between epistemology, ontology, politics, ethics and affects. In this sense, Almazán and Reichman (2023) talk about poli-ethic challenges in the context of energy transitions.
The argument of my paper is that the global in global ethics requires, first of all, the expansion of the subject of ethics so it also includes present, future and past human and non-human and more-than-human generations and their complex interconnections (Väyrynen 2023). Second, it requires an approach to ethics from below as a grounded, worldly, lived and material practice and not as a set of universal abstract norms. Third and last, it requires the recognition of the indivisibility of epistemology, ontology, ethics, politics and affects “in this-worldly relations, values and goals” (Hutchings 2018). Hence, I focus on the United Nations resolution 77/169 on an Earth Assembly and the Harmony with nature dialogues as case studies that illustrate how to think post-anthropocentric and post-androcentric ecosophies of care (Comins Mingol 2016) if we are to be “ethically responsible for the intra-actions we share with all beings” (Väyrynen 2023) and finally make peace with humans and more-than-humans alike. In order to work towards feminist eco-centric pacifist praxes, I draw on feminist peace research and feminist posthuman thinking.
