Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

This paper explores the concept of more-than-human anarchisms by connecting eco-anarchist ideas and practices with recent literature on cosmopolitics and more-than-human political work. We try to understand the practical emergence of autonomous human-other-than-human political communities. For this, we study an agro-ecosystem in the Catalan Pyrenees where a peasant collective runs a 90 ha mixed animal husbandry farm. We use a variety of methods (participant observation, more-than-human participatory methods) to map and explore different human-more-than-human alliances, contradictory or conflictual relationships, as well as question their potential for building multispecies democracies. As such, this paper’s contribution is threefold: 1. it establishes the theoretical basis for exploring more-than-human anarchisms, 2. it proposes a rich empirical account of these emergent anarchisms in action, and 3. it explores degrowth's potential political alliances with agrifood movements and more-than-human nature.

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Day: 2023-09-01
Start time: 12:15
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-5
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Resilience building through degrowth

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