Decolonizing Environmental Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Toward A Philosophy for Planetary Healing

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dc.contributor.advisorBoran, Idil
dc.contributor.authorWhittle, Marliese Frances
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-28T21:21:03Z
dc.date.available2023-03-28T21:21:03Z
dc.date.copyright2022-12-02
dc.date.issued2023-03-28
dc.date.updated2023-03-28T21:21:03Z
dc.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractColonial mindsets and structures in the Western world drive broken relationships between human beings and non-human nature. In 2019, Kyle Whyte identified a tension between the rapid societal transformation required in response to climate change and the considerably slower pace at which remediation of trust, inequity, and imbalances of power happen between people within the colonial construct. This thesis offers a diagnostic tool to begin grappling with the question of how to heal broken relationships with each other and with non-human nature. Problematic assumptions in Western natural laws and environmental ethics undermine efforts to address worsening ecological crises in the Anthropocene – the geological time period defined by increasing instability of Earth system processes from human activity. Drawing on the ideas of scholars Charles W Mills, Serene Khader, Deborah McGregor, and John Borrows, I explore a philosophy of planetary healing - an interdisciplinary, multicultural approach to justice, health and well-being.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/41020
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEnvironmental philosophy
dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subjectEnvironmental justice
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental ethics
dc.subject.keywordsClimate justice
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental justice
dc.subject.keywordsWell-being
dc.subject.keywordsPlanetary justice
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical philosophy
dc.subject.keywordsEthics
dc.subject.keywordsAnthropocene
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonizing ethics
dc.subject.keywordsNatural laws
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous natural laws
dc.subject.keywordsBuen Vivir
dc.titleDecolonizing Environmental Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Toward A Philosophy for Planetary Healing
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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