Connections, Compassion, and Co-healing: The Ecology of Relationships
In developed countries many people spend little time in direct contact with the more-than-human world and react with pervasive fear and mistrust of ‘nature’. This chapter explores repairing our relationships with the more-than-human world and enabling us
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magining Sustainability in Precarious Times
Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times
Karen Malone • Son Truong • Tonia Gray Editors
Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times
Editors Karen Malone Centre for Educational Research Western Sydney University Penrith, NSW, Australia
Son Truong Centre for Educational Research Western Sydney University Penrith, NSW, Australia
Tonia Gray Centre for Educational Research Western Sydney University Penrith, NSW, Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2548-8 ISBN 978-981-10-2550-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2550-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959465 © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
Foreword
The current impacts of environmental crisis such as climate change are devastating outcomes of broader conditions of global precarity. Indeed, a range of interdisciplinary research suggests the ways precarity has become an everyday existential state in many parts of the globe under new norms of neoliberal capitalism (Neilson & Rossiter, 2008). Focusing on labour conditions such as the flexibilisation of labour markets, job insecurity, and economic uncertainty, scholarship on precarity emphasises its dominance as ontological experience that has spread to an increasing range of labour classes, sectors, and national contexts (Jørgensen, 2015). These conditions are also an extension of longer trajectories of colonial capitalism, including histories of slavery and settler colonisation (Coulthard, 2014; Wolfe, 2001). As forms of biopower in which capital relies on ‘immaterial labour’ and genocide, enforced social, economic, and environmental precarity has been ongoing over centuries in many regions of the globe (Morgensen, 2011;
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