This is a book about justice, but not as we know it. Andreas
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos argues that justice is
always _hydrojustice_ - that is, always defined in relation to
water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and
nonhuman. Hence justice is not an ideal state reached through merely
human procedures (legal, political, economic, etc.) but also a
planetary one, always conjoined with the element of water that both
constitutes and transcends the boundaries of the human. In short,
hydrojustice is the just confluence of all bodies, human and nonhuman.
For the first time, this book brings questions of justice into line
with the current literature on water. Up to now, justice has been
understood as an anthropocentric affair, with most existing theories
accepting and reinforcing the division between human and nonhuman.
This book builds on feminism, ecology, posthumanism and the current
Blue Turn in the humanities and social sciences, and puts questions of
justice at their core.
What the book proposes, however, is not simply an ecological concept
of justice. Rather, through examples taken from current affairs,
science and the art world, it attempts a radical recalibration of what
justice is. The book argues that hydrojustice is already here, part of
our planetary condition, but it requires unearthing, in the double
sense of revealing what is hidden and allowing earth to cede priority
to the aquatic.
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ISBN
9781509561650
Publisert
2025
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Polity
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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