The Illusion of Boundaries and the Gift of Multispecies Justice
Published 03 May 2022
The idea of borders and boundaries has a tight hold in politics and on academic disciplines. A gift of multispecies justice is to step through these illusionary boundaries into a world of nested relational webs between disciplines, cultures, lands, waters, seas, animal, vegetable, mineral, elemental and spiritual.
From within the lens of Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge and philosophies), SEI Postdoctoral Fellow Christine Winter’s farewell lecture will discuss how multispecies justice might address multiple injustices wrought by the expansionist and universalising impulses of academia, imperialism and globalisation, and demonstrate the potential in multispecies justice of unbounded philosophic openings.
Timestamps
00:15 Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country – Danielle Celermajer
05:45 Lecture: The Illusion of Boundaries and the Gift of Multispecies Justice
37:15 Unravelling Academic Disciplines
40:30 Operationalising Māori Philosophy in Contemporary Systems
Speakers
Dr Christine Winter, Sydney Environment Institute
Professor Danielle Celermajer (Chair), Sydney Environment Institute
This event was held at the University of Sydney on Wednesday 27 April, 2022.