How does grappling with ongoing inheritances co-create liveable futures?
SHARED BY CATHERINE HAMM AND CORY JOBB
How does grappling with ongoing inheritances co-create liveable futures? Co-creating liveable futures requires relational practices that intentionally foreground ethical and political response-abilities (Haraway, 2016), answering to injustice, extinction and hope. Isabelle Stengers (2018) offers that, “we who are here” must “imagine how we will answer those who are not here, but who nevertheless already exist.” (p. 106). These inheriting imaginaries are not bound by temporalities and invite attention to messy, imperfect, speculative propositions that agitate at fractures and always-present shadow places (Plumwood, 2008). Grappling with inheriting requires understanding the role that we (humans) play in ongoing processes of ecological precarity, colonialism, mass extinction. Answering to, and activating the accountabilities that are entangled in fragments of everyday moments requires slow, relational practices that open to noticing how we (humans and multispecies communities) are collectively implicated in the work of inheriting. These practices put in motion possibilities for resisting and disrupting injustices, re-crafting relations and risking toward a more liveable world.
References
Haraway, D (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucence. California.Duke University Press.
Plumwood, V. (2008). Shadow places and the politics of dwelling. Australian Humanities Review, 44(2008), 139-50.
Stengers, I. (2018). Another science is possible: A manifesto for slow science. John Wiley & Sons.
