Capitalism, colonialism and multispecies justice

How has capitalism and colonialism rendered multispecies injustice business as usual? A panel of experts unpack this issue and consider what alternative structures could support conditions for justice. To understand the production of multispecies injustices requires widening the frame beyond specific acts of violence, exploitation and marginalisation. To counter such injustices and create alternatives demands an appreciation of how capitalism and colonialism have put in place the meanings, forms of relationship, and institutional arrangements that render multispecies injustice business as usual. To launch the recently published Special Issue of the journal Cultural Politics on Multispecies Justice, the editors and four contributing authors explore the capitalist and colonial roots of injustices that occur at the sites where they work – in the worlds of First Nations Peoples, in Oceans, in the sites of industrialised animal slaughter, and even in contemporary artworks seeking to resist the erasure of more-than-human lives. They speculate on how anti- or post-capitalist and anti- or post-colonial forms of life, meanings, and institutional arrangements might create the conditions for justice for all earth beings. Learn more about this event here.Timestamps 0.51 Acknowledgement of Country 2.14 What is Multispecies Justice? 17.19 Anti-Colonial Multispecies Justice 20.24 Plant Sentience in Art, Science, Religion and Nationalism 28.21 Ocean Justice 37.38 Literary Responses to Industrial Animal Agriculture Speakers Dr Christine Winter, University of Otago Dr Sria Chatterjee and Paul Mellon, Centre for British Art Dr Susan Reid, University of Sydney Department of Gender and Cultural Studies Hayley Singer, University of Melbourne Professor Danielle Celermajer (Chair), Sydney Environment Institute Dr Sophie Chao (Chair), University of Sydney Department of Anthropology Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.