For ontological politics

Kurnik, Andrej (author)

The ecological crisis is challenging the foundational premises of modern political vocabulary, including the nature–society dualism. Notions of ontological politics and the ontological turn are employed to illustrate the consequences of this dualism, its crisis, and the potential for a political constitution beyond it. Drawing on experiences in agro-ecology, recent developments in movements for climate justice and land protection, and the approaches of social movements against neoliberal globalisation, the article explores the renewed interest in ontological political questions. The author elaborates on the ontological proposition for a world of many worlds and asserts its validity against objections of perceived indifference targeted at relational ontologies.

• Language: English
• Keywords: ontological politics, world of many worlds, nature-society dualism
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication date: 01.04.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 269-291
• Numbering: Letn. 61, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-160892-46affb3f-5c11-a15d-82f7-35619be32734
• UDC: 32
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.61.2.269
• COBISS.SI-ID: 200698115
• Publication date in RUL: 05.09.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Za ontološko politiko

Abstract

Ekološka kriza izziva temeljne predpostavke modernega političnega besedišča, vključno z dualizmom narava in družba. S pojmi ontološke politike in ontološkega obrata skušamo opisati posledice tega dualizma, njegovo krizo in možnosti politične konstitucije onkraj njega. Članek tematizira ponoven interes za ontološko politična vprašanja. Pri tem izhaja iz izkušnje agroekologije, nedavnega razvoja gibanj za podnebno pravičnost in za zaščito zemlje in iz pristopov družbenih gibanj proti neoliberalni globalizaciji. Avtor razvija ontološko predpostavko za svet mnogoterih svetov in zagovarja njeno veljavnost proti ugovorom domnevne indiferentnosti relacijskih ontologij.

• Keywords: ontološka politika, svet mnogoterih svetov, dualizem marava/družba, politična ekologija