Simona Capisani, Harvard University, « The Right to a Livable Locality and Climate Displacement in the Territorial State System »
Préinscription requise | Registration required: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca
Abtract | Résumé
People have primarily inhabited a restricted range of temperatures on the surface of the earth for most of human history. This “human climate niche” is now threatened due to anthropogenic climate change, and a significant portion of these areas is likely to become far less habitable. Many have and will continue to be forced to move within and across national borders. Those without the means to adaptive mobility face a myriad of challenges and intersecting injustices as the livability of the places they occupy continues to deteriorate.
This talk takes a “practice-based” approach to answering questions regarding the nature of our obligations to those displaced by climate change. The normative ground I defend can help identify what kinds of adaptive adjustments are both reasonable and necessary for meeting the demands of justice for climate-induced displacement and migration. Specifically, the talk identifies and explicates a basic right people at risk of displacement have a claim to– the right to a livable locality. I argue that such a right establishes a correlative moral “associative obligation” to climate displaced persons. A principle of protection thus emerges as a requirement of legitimacy for the international state system understood as a social practice. To more fully account for the right, this talk raises and aims to answer the following question: what is an embodied individual and community’s relation to its space in a territorial state system such that, if the qualities or the physical location changes, that space is still livable?
In answer to this question, I argue that we need a “dynamical” notion of a livable space, which allows us to assess what changes in location people can or cannot be reasonably asked to adapt to. Second, we need an account that explains why “basic needs” are related in a constitutive, rather than merely instrument way, to location. I argue that as embodied human beings within a territorial state system, the relationship to a livable space is not merely incidental. Rather, being under conditions where livable space can no longer be guaranteed is morally relevant for participants in a social practice which is territorially all-encompassing and territorially exclusive.
8e rencontre du Groupe de lecture en philosophie de l’écologie (via ZOOM)
(Coorganisé par Anne-Marie Boisvert, Antoine C. Dussault, Véronica Ponce)
Préinscription: boisvert.anne-marie@uqam.ca
Article à l’étude : Bryant, R. (2012). “What if Communities are not Wholes? », in Kabasenche, W.P. et al. (eds.), The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics, MIT Press, pp.37-56.
Ce groupe de lecture est organisé dans le cadre des activités du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) et du Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA)
Groupe de lecture en éthique environnementale et animale organisé par Juliette Roussin (Université Laval) et François Jaquet (CRÉ) – Hiver 2021
Lecture de deux textes :
#5 – Val Plumwood “Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism”, Hypathia, 6(1), 1991.
#6 – Robert Sessions, “Deep Ecology versus Ecofeminism: Healthy Differences or Incompatible Philosophies?”, Hypathia, 6(1), 1991.
Pour vous inscrire, merci de contacter Ely Mermans, coordinateurice du GRÉEA : ely.mermans@umontreal.ca
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Reading group in environmental and animal ethics organized by Juliette Roussin (Université Laval) & François Jaquet (CRÉ) – Winter 2021
Reading of two papers:
#5 – Val Plumwood “Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy, and the Critique of Rationalism”, Hypathia, 6(1), 1991.
#6 – Robert Sessions, “Deep Ecology versus Ecofeminism: Healthy Differences or Incompatible Philosophies?”, Hypathia, 6(1), 1991.
To register, please contact Ely mermans, GRÉEA’s coordinator: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca
9e rencontre du Groupe de lecture en philosophie de l’écologie (via ZOOM)
(Coorganisé par Anne-Marie Boisvert, Antoine C. Dussault, Véronica Ponce)
Préinscription: boisvert.anne-marie@uqam.ca
Articles à l’étude :
- Blandin, T. (2007). « L’écosystème existe-t-il? Le tout et la partie en écologie », in Martin, T. (2007). Le tout et les parties dans les systèmes naturels, Paris, Vuibert. pp.21-46.
- Wilson, D.S. (1988). “ Holism and Reductionism in Evolutionary Ecology”, Oikos, 53, 2, pp. 269-273.
Ce groupe de lecture est organisé dans le cadre des activités du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) et du Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA)
Julie Jebeile, Université de Berne, « Feminist Perspectives on Philosophy of Climate Science » (online | en ligne)
Préinscription requise | Registration required: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca
Abtract to come | Résumé à venir
Groupe de lecture en éthique environnementale et animale organisé par Juliette Roussin (Université Laval) et François Jaquet (CRÉ) – Hiver 2021
#7 – Lecture de Lorraine Code, Ecological thinking: The politics of epistemic location, Oxford University Press, 2006. – chapitre à définir.
Pour vous inscrire, merci de contacter Ely Mermans, coordinateurice du GRÉEA : ely.mermans@umontreal.ca
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Reading group in environmental and animal ethics organized by Juliette Roussin (Université Laval) & François Jaquet (CRÉ) – Winter 2021
#7 – Reading of Lorraine Code, Ecological thinking: The politics of epistemic location, Oxford University Press, 2006. – chapter to be specified.
To register, please contact Ely mermans, GRÉEA’s coordinator: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca
Journée d’études en philosophie de l’écologie
Organisée par Anne-Marie Boisvert, Sophie Bretagnolle, Antoine C. Dussault
Intervenant-es & programmation à venir
Cet événement aura lieu soit sur le campus de l’Université de Montréal ou en ligne suivant l’évolution des conditions sanitaires.
10e rencontre du Groupe de lecture en philosophie de l’écologie (via ZOOM)
(Coorganisé par Anne-Marie Boisvert, Antoine C. Dussault, Véronica Ponce)
Préinscription: boisvert.anne-marie@uqam.ca
Article à l’étude : Bouchard, F. (2014). “Ecosystem Evolution Is About Variation and Persistence, not Populations and Reproduction”, Biological Theory, 9, pp. 382–391.
Ce groupe de lecture est organisé dans le cadre des activités du Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) et du Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA)