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In Search of Dialogical Partners for Asian Practical Theology
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Periodical
- Title:
- Open Philosophy
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Warsaw: De Gruyter Poland
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- Gesehen am 13.07.18
- Open Access
- Namensnennung 4.0 International
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- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 2543-8875
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2935964-8
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- 35273980
- Keywords:
- Zeitschrift
- Classification:
- Philosophie
- DDC Group:
- 100 Philosophie
- Collection:
- Philosophie
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- Rights reserved
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- Free Access
Article
- Title:
- From Necropower to Earthly Care: Rethinking Environmental Crisis through Achille Mbembe
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Warsaw: De Gruyter Poland, 2025
- Language:
- English
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- Abstract: This article critically engages with Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics to reframe the environmental crisis as a political and ethical issue rooted in colonial violence, extractive capitalism, and global structures of power. Using a critical theoretical methodology and interdisciplinary interpretative approach, the study reads Mbembe’s major works, including On the Postcolony, Necropolitics, and The Earthly Community, to conceptualize environmental disruption as an extension of sovereign violence, where both human and non-human life are rendered disposable. Building on postcolonial political theory and environmental humanities, the article traces the historical entanglement between colonial extraction, ecological devastation, and global structures of power. It contends that contemporary landscapes of “slow violence,” such as the oil extraction, dispossession, and conflict in the Nigerian oil-rich Niger Delta, are concrete cases of the ongoing necropolitical logics. The article concludes by examining Mbembe’s shift toward an ethics of care, proposing a relational and decolonial ontological paradigm that challenges the logic of disposability. While sympathetic to Mbembe’s insights, the article critiques the determinism of his framework and argues for a multi-scalar understanding of environmental responsibility that includes institutional, communal, and individual agency. Ultimately, it calls for an earthly community founded not on sovereignty, but on interdependence, relationality, stewardship, and the radical affirmation of life. By shifting the focus from technocratic solutions to ethical and political transformation, this study contributes to the reimagining of environmental futures beyond necropower.
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- Online-Ressource
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- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- Achille Mbembe ; necropolitics ; environmental crisis ; colonialism ; political ontology ; ethics of care ; decolonial theory ; critical theoretical methodology
- Classification:
- Philosophie
- Kunst
- Collection:
- Philosophie
- Kunst
- Copyright:
- CC BY
- Accessibility:
- Free Access
