O'neil van Horn

On the Ground (eBook, PDF)

Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene.Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet s nearly 8 billion human inhabitants. On the Ground explores how one might account for the many paradoxical tensions posed by the Anthropocene: tensions between planetarity and particularity, connectivity and contextuality, entanglement and exclusion. Using the philosophical and theological idea of ground, Van Horn argues that ground when read as earth-ground, as soil offers a symbol for conceiving of the effects of climate change as collective and yet located, as communal and yet differential. In so doing, he offers critical interventions on theorizations of hope and political action amid the crises of climate change.Drawing on soil science, theopoetics, feminist ethics, poststructuralism, process philosophy, and more, On the Ground asks: In the face of global climate catastrophe, how might one theorize this calamitous experience as shared and yet particular, as interconnected and yet contextual? Might there be a way to conceptualize our interconnected experiences without erasing critical constitutive differences, particularly of social and ecological location? How might these conceptual interventions catalyze pluralistic, anti-racist planetary politics amid the Anthropocene? In short, the book addresses these queries: What philosophical and theological concepts can soil create? How might soil inspire and help re-imagine forms of planetary politics in the midst of climate change? On the Ground thus roots us in a robust theoretical symbol in the hopes of producing and proliferating intersectional responses to climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781531505585
• Artikelnr.: 72451919

Autorenporträt

O'neil Van Horn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
Interlude: The Differences of Our Soils, the Soils of Our Differences 15
1. Planting: Ground Is Not Foundation 18
Interlude: Poetics at the Edge 42
2. Rooting: Terrestrial Theopoetics of and for the Planetary 44
Interlude: Mountaintop Removal and the Impossibility of Hope 62
3. Sprouting: Dark Hope in Undecidable Times 67
Interlude: Seeds and the Subversive Act of Sowing 96
4. Blooming: (De)Compositional Planetary Politics 101
Conclusion 125
Acknowledgments 129
Notes 131
Bibliography 167
Index 179