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What is Geontology

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
Geontopower operates through distinctions and regulations between Life and Nonlife, Being and Nonbeing. Under settler neoliberalism, a rock, a lake and a fossil are Nonlife and Nonbeing, and are therefore unworthy of care or justice. Geontopower calls into question boundaries and borders and helps tear down the walls of disciplined knowledge to reveal the artificial boundaries between Being and Nonbeing. The concept of geontopower helps deconstruct discourses and practices that delegitimize caring for inorganic entities.
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A Radical More-Than-Human Intersectionality in Ecologically Compromised Times: Toward an Attunement to Nonhumans and Indigenous Knowledges
Sanita Fejzic (Queen's University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch028
Abstract
Gender-based analysis+(GBA+) efforts by the Canadian government that attend to climate change often focus on ‘sustainable management' of ‘resources' alongside inclusion of vulnerable groups at decision-making tables; meanwhile, scholars and activists focus attention toward eco- and social-justice models couched in good nation-to-nation relations with Indigenous communities. This chapter suggests that attunement to Indigenous knowledges and other-than-humans (nonhuman animals, plants, and elements such as water) is necessary in the wake of global ecological collapse, founded on principles of responsibility and respect of Indigenous sovereignty over land and attunement to Indigenous ‘caretaking relations' with other-than-humans.
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