ECOLOGY (minoritarian)

We speak of ecology understood as a minoritarian ethico-politics that is articulated from anti-imperialist, post-colonial and queer-feminist thought and practices. In a materialist approach, ecology inhabits different fields and questions the limits of corporeality and its affections with the environment. Mirko Nikolić (2018) explains that historically there has been a view of Nature from two possible positions: archaic, connected to Romanticism, or imperialist, understanding nature as a territory to be preserved or to be managed by human reason. Ecology thus serves to highlight a violence at the heart of modernity based on the logic of dualism and colonisation. We must defend an ecology that transgresses the dualist hierarchy.

Ecology is about being concerned with the other, “otherness”. Ecology is the discourse of silenced voices (Lyotard, 1989), of all those who have been pushed aside: women, slaves, animals, plants, non-standard and non-normative bodies. Ecology transgresses the binarities of colonialist logics: human and non-human, mind and matter, city and countryside, nomos and physis, citizen and stranger, friend and foe, order and chaos, and so on. Let us defend an ecology that speaks of bodies that do not fit into normative frameworks: hybrids, cyborgs, monsters, others, “earth others” (Plumwood, 1993). What distinguishes between the majority and the minority is not a matter of quantity, but of (ab)normality regarding the constant standard. Deleuze and Guattari proposed "becoming a minority" as a method of escape from binarity and as a space of battle. Thus, ecology must be based on non-normativity and the politics of differences. We must work on the connections that still need to be built and collectively work towards a post-colonial discourse.

ECOLOGY

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ANTI-IMPERIALIST,
POST-COLONIAL,
QUEER-FEMINIST

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CORPOREALITY

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NATURE

DUALISM

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OTHERNESS

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SILENCED
VOICES

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(AB)NORMALITY

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POLITICS OF DIFFERENCES

How can we create a discourse of battle and work towards a new world?