Socioecological Transformations

Socioecological Transformations aims to reclaim socioecological transformation as a radical, justice-centred concept and praxis, tackling the deeper roots of current socioecological violence and oppression to the materialist-dualist worldview that established and maintained colonial-racist-capitalist structures of oppression.

Socioecological Transformations confronts dominant framings of transformation that either remain apolitical and ahistorical, or overemphasizes the structural causes, while bypassing the ontological roots of the present-day socioecological violence and destruction. It challenges the technocratic and structuralist tendencies that either reduce transformation to policy tweaks, or to social movements and activism.

This volume reclaims socioecological transformations as a radical, justice-centred theory-praxis. By connecting the structural and the ontological roots of the colonial-racial-capitalist system of oppression, the book exposes how materialist-dualist ontology and associated worldviews uphold hierarchies of worth, which in turn serve and uphold the colonial-racial-capitalist system of oppression. In doing so, it widens the spectrum of viable responses to include in addition to social movements and activism, those that unsettle the ontological bases of our socioecological calamities-the human exceptionalism and the illusion of separation. The fifteen chapters span diverse geographies, struggles, and approaches, weaving together onto-epistemic inquiry with grounded transformative practices, movements and action. The contributions share the common focus on justice as both motivation and a guiding principle for transformations. The book calls for transformation where being, knowing, and doing are reimagined in relational, life-affirming terms.

A vital resource for students, academics, activists inspired by political ecology, feminist studies, decolonial and relational approaches, social movements, and transformations, but also practitioners and policy actors seeking to engage transformation beyond surface-level solutions. Socioecological Transformations invites readers to embrace complexity, plurality, along the paradoxes that transformations entail, while building solidarities across polarized strategies, ontologies and worldviews.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Autorentext

Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen is Associate Research Professor of International Forest Policy and Governance and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke.

Klappentext

Socioecological Transformations aims to reclaim socioecological transformation as a radical, justice-centred concept and praxis, tackling the deeper roots of current socioecological violence and oppression to the materialist-dualist worldview that established and maintained colonial-racist-capitalist structures of oppression.

Inhalt

1 Just global socioecological transformations: it takes a worldview change to change the world? 2 On the illusion of separate self (as root cause of socioecological crises) and radical intraconnectedness (as precondition for healing and transforming)

3 Potentiality and responsibility: tenets of a deep relational ontology and implications for transformations research and practice

4 When farm worlds change: ontological transformations in the web of life

5 Indigenous spiritualities: transforming the future through ancestral knowledge

6 Centring feminist ethic of care in socio-ecological transformative movements

7 Resistance-existence within and against education in colonized lands

8 In search of alternatives to development: learning from grounded initiatives

9 Transformative bottom-up urban planning: a case from a fishing community in coastal Mumbai, India

10 Exploring small-scale farming as ecological livelihoods: agricultural sustainability transformation in the minority worlds

11 Looking around for liveable forest futures

12 The meanings of tourism degrowth in the context of Barcelona

13 EU green transition as a barrier for socioecological transformations: deradicalizing transformations, degrowth, decoloniality, and justice in the EU's green politics

14 Barriers to transformations in the EU's external forest governance: indigenous rights in the EU-Honduras Voluntary Partnership Agreement 15 Broadening the scope for just socioecological transformations: ideas, structures, and alliances