Description
The international community increasingly frames actions of making " peace with nature" as a response to climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, facing the potential sixth mass extinction with the distinctive feature that is being caused by humans. While well-intentioned, this framing tends to universalize the problem—assuming all humans are “at war” with nature or have a conflictive relationship with nature— and prescribes peace as a fixed, harmonious common goal. Such logic often reaffirms anthropocentric, Western, liberal and colonial assumptions. It fails to recognise that “nature” is not an external other, nor an abstraction but part of a dynamic web of relations that include human and more-than-human worlds whose interactions depend con constant negotiations, dialogue, and tensions. This research explores different ways of negotiationg coexistence with nature in what I call "pluriversal diplomacies".
