ResisTerra: Conceptualizing More-than-human Resistance for the Anthropocene
ResisTerra：人類世下的多物種抵抗
❏Abstract
Who does resist and who is in solidarity with whom? Who is demanding freedom and justice, how and against whom? What consequences arise from the recognition of the capacity to act politically? These questions have long been considered exclusively human. However, in the Anthropocene, the age of Human's defining influence on the Earth, they are increasingly revealed as more than human. Wars are being declared on viruses. Alliances are cultivated with the beaver to hold water in the landscape. Livestock running wild are tracked and traced to help or prevent their escape from farms and slaughterhouses. "Weeds" or "pests" like the bark beetle are made into heroic conservationists as well as enemies of the Republic. New conceptions and valuations of non-human labour or property by place or the Earth are being rethought. How to make sense of similar situations, in which other-than-human beings or materials become more often conceived of as not only food, resources or symbols but as allies or enemies in more-than-human struggles? How to comprehend the chaotic battles in which the Earth, in its multiplicity of processes and forms, is no longer just a chessboard in the background of human struggles, but one of its sides? And why, after all, is it important to understand it? The talk strives to start answering such questions by introducing the concept of more-than-human resistance.
Date: 2025.3.4 (Tue)
Time: 14:30-16:20
Venue: HK207 Hakka Building, Liou-Jia Campus, NYCU (陽明交大客家學院HK-207)
Moderator: Ya-Chung Chuang (莊雅仲) (Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NYCU)
#On-site participation only
*Talk will be conducted in English, but both Mandarin and English are welcome during the discussion.
主辦單位｜
國立陽明交通大學人文社會學系暨族文碩士班
國立陽明交通大文化研究國際中心，「21世紀環境危機與多物種正義：邁向多於人的解殖」研究群
協辦單位｜
台灣聯合大學系統文化研究國際中心
亞際文化研究國際碩士學位學程（台灣聯合大系統）
