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TY - JOUR
T1 - Thinking through the Earth
T2 - surviving and thriving at a planetary threshold
AU - Clark, Nigel
AU - Szerszynski, Bronislaw
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - In this short response we engage with four generous and stimulating commentaries on our Planetary Social Thought (2021). We endorse Cecilia Åsberg’s suggestion that the boundary between the environmental humanities and social sciences is dissolving – but also call for more inventive relations between these disciplines and the natural sciences. We discuss László Cseke’s account of the rise of factory-farmed ‘broiler’ chickens as a reversal of many of the achievements of the Earth over the last half-billion years. We agree with Franklin Ginn’s suggestion that vegetality is a crucial vector of planetary self-exploration and invention – and one that can give us clues as to what life might become on other worlds. We reflect on Simon Dalby’s observations about the lack of reference to planetary governance in the book, suggesting that we need a way of thinking the politics of the earth that goes beyond conflict and agonism – in Åsberg’s words, that we need to learn not just to survive but to thrive.
AB - In this short response we engage with four generous and stimulating commentaries on our Planetary Social Thought (2021). We endorse Cecilia Åsberg’s suggestion that the boundary between the environmental humanities and social sciences is dissolving – but also call for more inventive relations between these disciplines and the natural sciences. We discuss László Cseke’s account of the rise of factory-farmed ‘broiler’ chickens as a reversal of many of the achievements of the Earth over the last half-billion years. We agree with Franklin Ginn’s suggestion that vegetality is a crucial vector of planetary self-exploration and invention – and one that can give us clues as to what life might become on other worlds. We reflect on Simon Dalby’s observations about the lack of reference to planetary governance in the book, suggesting that we need a way of thinking the politics of the earth that goes beyond conflict and agonism – in Åsberg’s words, that we need to learn not just to survive but to thrive.
KW - planetary multiplicity
KW - transdisciplinarity,
KW - planetary social thought
KW - life
KW - earthly multitudes
U2 - 10.1177/20438206221129204
DO - 10.1177/20438206221129204
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 488
EP - 491
JO - Dialogues in Human Geography
JF - Dialogues in Human Geography
SN - 2043-8206
IS - 3
ER -