From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions [Hardcover]

This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests   critical systemic  pathways to  protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of rapid urbanisation places humanity at risk. This book demonstrates how narrow anthropocentrism has focused on the rights of human beings at the expense of other species and the environment. This book explores a priori norms and a posteriori measures and indicators to  include and protect multiple species. This book aims to strengthen institutional capacity and powers to  address and extend the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by drawing on local wisdom but also the need to implement laws to prevent ecocide. This book highlights that our fragile interdependence requires a recognition of our hybridity and interconnectedness within the web of life and  suggests ways to reframe  policy within and beyond the nation state to support living systems ofwhich we are a strand.

Section 1 : Rethinking Human Security and Resilience as Vulnerable Multispecies Relationships.- Chapter 1: communication and culture : a multispecies endeavour: recognising kinship with multiple species.- Chapter 2: Pandemic in South Africa: reflections on lock down.- Chapter 3: From old to new taxonomies of rights, relationships and responsibilities to protect habitat.- Chapter 4:Interview: Recognising our Hybridity and interconnectedness.- Chapter 5: Consciousness for Balancing Individualism and Collectivism.- Chapter 6: Prospects for sustainable development linked to a focus on interrelatedness, interdependence and mutuality: Some African perspectives.- Chapter 7: Habitat loss and near extinction of plants and insects in South Africa.- Chapter 8: Stewardship : an anthropocentric misnomer.- Chapter 9 : Social eng