Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing
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Published:January 2024
The coda, “Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing,” concludes the book by speculatively theorizing how nonhuman witnessing enables a more pluriversal politics that foregrounds communicative justice for more-than-human entities and ecologies. To do this, it draws on scholarship by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser on pluriversal politics and Éduard Glissant on opacity. As such, the coda brings together the conceptual threads of the book to weave an account of the importance of nonhuman witnessing as the communicative foundation for a world of many worlds. Rather that provide a definitive account or summary, the coda thinks with opacity, incommensurability, and difference to examine how nonhuman witnessing might contribute to justice for human and nonhuman in all our connections and disconnections.