Political ecology,development, and human exceptionalism |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Human Geography, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX44RJ, United Kingdom;2. Azim Premji University, Pixel Park, B Block, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bengaluru 560100, India;1. Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences, Wageningen University, University of Aveiro, Portugal;2. Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands;3. Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Portugal;4. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium;1. Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia;2. School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St. Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The sub-discipline of Political Ecology devotes much critical attention to the complex and often pernicious socio-ecological impacts of mainstream development - developmentality - across the world. However, despite the ’ecology’ in its name, Political Ecology continues to be predominantly anthropocentric which, we contend, compromises its critique of developmentality’s excesses. Drawing on recent literatures in philosophy, political theory, and human geography, we argue that both the more-than-human and social impacts of developmentality are enabled by zoöpolitical logics of human exceptionalism which support anthropocentrism. We suggest that the adverse effects of development are co-constituted with the positive vision of human wellbeing which runs through developmentality. Thus, an effective critique of development will necessarily have to address the zoöpolitical logics that underpin anthropocentrism. Doing so will strengthen the rigour of political ecology’s engagement with developmentality and widen its attention to the diversity of life harmed by mainstream development. |
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| Keywords: | Political ecology More-than-human Anthropocentrism Human exceptionalism Development Socio-ecological Zoöpolitical |
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