Environmental Affectivity: Aesthetics of Inhabiting
Omar Felipe Giraldo, Ingrid Fernanda Toro
Following Spinoza's lead and Latin American environmental thought, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, aesthetic and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro help us understand how places inhabit us, and therefore, how places transformed lovingly have the immense capacity to modify the body, to redirect desire, to clarify our sensibility – creating an affectivity in direction opposition to the regime imposed by this global ecocidal capitalism.
For the authors, the environmental crisis is more than a technological or economic problem. They see it as a threat to survival inscribed in the deepest foundations of our body, in the intimacy of our skin, in the intensity and tone of our affections, in our desires, in our perceptions and in our sensory-motor capacities. Hence, the immense need to dismantle this system of power embedded in the intimacy of our body and to cultivate a perceptual transformation guided by an empathic knowledge that leads to a different understanding of our belonging in that which exceeds us.
This book is a vital manifesto on the political role of affects, an invitation to awaken the sensitive perception anesthetized by the ecologies of cruelty, and an urgent call to understand differently our place in the cosmos in the midst of this war that our civilization has declared on life.
For the authors, the environmental crisis is more than a technological or economic problem. They see it as a threat to survival inscribed in the deepest foundations of our body, in the intimacy of our skin, in the intensity and tone of our affections, in our desires, in our perceptions and in our sensory-motor capacities. Hence, the immense need to dismantle this system of power embedded in the intimacy of our body and to cultivate a perceptual transformation guided by an empathic knowledge that leads to a different understanding of our belonging in that which exceeds us.
This book is a vital manifesto on the political role of affects, an invitation to awaken the sensitive perception anesthetized by the ecologies of cruelty, and an urgent call to understand differently our place in the cosmos in the midst of this war that our civilization has declared on life.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date
3/21/2024
ISBN
9781350345126
Pages
176
Categories
About the Author
Omar Felipe Giraldo
Doctor en Ciencias Agrarias del Departamento de Sociología Rural de la Universidad Autónoma Chapingo y posdoctorado del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM. Magister en Desarrollo Rural de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica y Médico Veterinario de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Por mi tesis doctoral obtuve el Premio Arturo Fregoso Urbina de la UACh a la mejor tesis de doctorado del año 2013 y la mención honorífica del Premio Cátedra Jorge Alonso a la mejor tesis doctoral en ciencias sociales de México, 2013, otorgado por el CIESAS y la Universidad de Guadalajara. Me desempeñé como asesor-consultor de las Naciones Unidas en Colombia durante varios años. He sido docente en la Licenciatura en Sociología en la UNAM, profesor de posgrado en la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, profesor invitado internacional en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Uniminuto, y actualmente en ECOSUR, soy titular del curso en Pensamiento Ambiental y Ecología Política, y colaboro como coresponsable en el Seminario Agroecología y Sociedad. Soy autor de varios artículos en revistas especializadas y de los libros "Utopías en la era de la Supervivencia. Una interpretación del Buen Vivir" (Editorial Itaca, 2014) y "Ecología Política de la Agricultura. Agroecología y posdesarrollo" (Ecosur, 2018). Mis áreas de interés son la ecología política, disputas territoriales y conflictos socioambientales. Construcción de alternativas al desarrollo y movimientos sociales. Crítica a la modernidad, crisis civilizatoria y filosofía ambiental. Sociología Rural. Epistemología ambiental. Procesos de re-territorialización , re-campesinización y re-apropiación de la naturaleza y la cultura. Escalamiento de la agroecología.
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