Governing with the more-than-human world

This is what a more-than-human politics actually looks like: the careful and conscious attention to the needs and desires of others, the acknowledgement of their agency and value, and the willingness to adapt our existing structures of society and place to better account for all of us.

the ‘more-than-human world’ acknowledges that the very real human world – the realm of our senses, breath, voice, cognition and culture – is but one facet of something vastly greater. All human life and being is inextricably entangled with and suffused by everything else.

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These emerging political imaginaries take on the intellectual work of breaking out of the polarisation between a wholly human-centric worldview (of the kind found in orthodox economics and most twentieth-century politics) and the extreme ecological view in which humans are to be despised and rejected. Such a reconnection was the promise of complexi

The notion of a more-than-human world further intimates that these things are beings: not passive props in the drama of our own preoccupations, but active participants in our collective becoming.

the ‘more-than-human world’ refers to a way of thinking which seeks to override our human tendency to separate ourselves from the natural world.