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A Manifesto for Abundant Futures

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  • Rosemary-Claire Collard
  • Jessica Dempsey
  • Juanita Sundberg

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The concept of the Anthropocene is creating new openings around the question of how humans ought to intervene in the environment. In this article, we address one arena in which the Anthropocene is prompting a sea change: conservation. The path emerging in mainstream conservation is, we argue, neoliberal and postnatural. We propose an alternative path for multispecies abundance. By abundance we mean more diverse and autonomous forms of life and ways of living together. In considering how to enact multispecies worlds, we take inspiration from Indigenous and peasant movements across the globe as well as decolonial and postcolonial scholars. With decolonization as our principal political sensibility, we offer a manifesto for abundance and outline political strategies to reckon with colonial-capitalist ruins, enact pluriversality rather than universality, and recognize animal autonomy. We advance these strategies to support abundant socioecological futures.

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  • Rosemary-Claire Collard & Jessica Dempsey & Juanita Sundberg, 2015. "A Manifesto for Abundant Futures," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 105(2), pages 322-330, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:105:y:2015:i:2:p:322-330
    DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973007
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