O My Friends, There is No Friend
O My Friends, There is No Friend
The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology
Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human. This volume includes interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Leela Gandhi and Leanne Simpson.
Am Johal is a term associate professor of professional practice in graduate liberal studies. He is the former director of the Vancity Office of Community Engagement, a founding co-director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative, and an associate with the School for Contemporary Arts and the Institute for the Humanities at the Simon Fraser University.
- ISBN-13
- 9783837670264
- Publisher
- transcript
- Imprint
- transcript
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 124
- Dimensions
- 225 x 148 mm
- Language
- English