Ecological and related health crises as symptoms of “wrong life”: Disturbance, reflection and cognitive transformation

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dc.check.date2025-06-19en
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dc.contributor.authorSkillington, Traceyen
dc.contributor.editorKallhoff, Angelaen
dc.contributor.editorLiedauer, Evaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-04T11:40:44Z
dc.date.available2024-09-04T11:40:44Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-19en
dc.description.abstractBeyond its distinct geological character, the Anthropocene is also a lived social reality, one whose properties are actively processed and internalized by its members in the form of “reflections from damaged life” (Adorno in Minima Moralia: Reflections from damaged life. Verso, London, 2005). The more immediate its destructive tendencies become, the more anthropocentric climate change disturbs the process of equilibration, prompting a need for reassurance that our ontological security is not threatened by powerful, unstoppable forces. Dewey (The later works. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, pp. 105, 1984) draws attention to the importance of not neglecting the function of this need in “creating ends or consequences” that connect intimately with affectivities embedded deep in the subject and exert a powerful influence over cognitive reasoning. Ultimately, it is the “physical moment” of the experience of ecological collapse that “tells our knowledge that [this] suffering ought not to be, that things should be different” (Adorno in Negative dialectics. Routledge, London, p. 203, 1973), prompting a need to change age-old environmental practices and a desire to think beyond “the given” towards better potentialities. This chapter notes how emerging formulations of environmental and related health crises, as symptoms of ‘wrong life’, provoke new thinking about the moral and political promises of cosmopolitan Europe and the need to extend justice relations to non-human others. Even though this contribution does not deliver a clarification of greentopia, it provides a context, a meta-narrative and political proposals for a real greentopia.en
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dc.identifier.citationSkillington, T. (2024) 'Ecological and related health crises as symptoms of “wrong life”: Disturbance, reflection and cognitive transformation', in Kallhoff, A. and Liedauer, E. (eds) Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 36, pp 89-104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56802-2_6en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56802-2_6en
dc.identifier.eissn2215-1737en
dc.identifier.endpage104en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031568015en
dc.identifier.isbn9783031568022en
dc.identifier.issn1570-3010en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethicsen
dc.identifier.startpage89en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16255
dc.identifier.volume36en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.relation.ispartofThe International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethicsen
dc.relation.ispartofGreentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropoceneen
dc.rights© 2024, the Author, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Skillington, T. (2024) 'Ecological and related health crises as symptoms of “wrong life”: Disturbance, reflection and cognitive transformation', in Kallhoff, A. and Liedauer, E. (eds) Greentopia: Utopian Thought in the Anthropocene. The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, vol 36, pp 89-104. Springer, Cham. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56802-2_6en
dc.subjectThe Anthropoceneen
dc.subjectReflections from damaged lifeen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectGreentopiaen
dc.titleEcological and related health crises as symptoms of “wrong life”: Disturbance, reflection and cognitive transformationen
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