Climate Change, Non-Humans and Relational Impacts Symposium

This symposium is part of the series Thinking and Enacting Justice in a Multispecies World (12 - 20 June) run by the FASS FutureFix Research Theme 'Multispecies Justice'

The idea of justice is one initially developed for, and applied to, individual human beings. In our climate-changed and climate-challenged environment, biodiversity is being undermined and the tenuous relationship between fragile ecological systems and the human realm has been exposed. Climate change accelerates the damage being done to human, nonhuman, and the relations and flows between them, and has made clear the limitations of individualist conceptions of justice.

This symposium examines ecological and social relationality, and how a conception of multispecies justice can rethink, reorder, and revive the field of justice studies in order to make it more relevant to the reality of climate-impacted and ecologically entangled lives. We will explore how we might critique liberal individualism, value relations with the nonhuman, and rethink notions of personhood informed by both western and Indigenous lenses.

Keynote Speakers

• Professor Makere Stewart-Harawira, University of Alberta
• Associate Professor Lauren Rickards, RMIT University
• Professor Petra Tschakert, The University of Western Australia

Convener

• Professor David Schlosberg, Department of Government and International Relations and Sydney Environment Institute

This event is co-sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute and the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre.