Reading Judith Butler's 'Bodies that Matter' and wondering why dominant strains of Green thinking are apparently happy to put up with 'Environment' (as a 'domain of abjection'), as the absence of something, and all that this it entails..
#environmentalhumanities
To clarify, Butler is here, if I understand correctly, talking about how the disciplinary category of sex (the material dimension of of gender) is key to emerging as a subject (becoming a conscious *somewhere* as a particular subject shaped through the recursive work of power)
So, I contend (and am not the first to do so) we can extend this into the environmental domain by understanding the human subjectification process as one in which categories like 'nature' and 'environment' are required to become conscious subjects.
The notions of personhood / subjectification as attained in exchange have striking parallels between the work of Judith Butler (foucauldian power tradition) and Ubuntu (James Ogude)
According to Butler, subjects are produced within relations of power. According to Ogude, personhood is attained through recognition by other beings. In Ubuntu the 'environment' is just part of the totality. For Butler, subjects, emerge only vis a vis social power.
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