What is it about?
We live in a new era, the Capitalocene. The way in which we claim, control and exploit the Earth is subjected to the needs of capital, while the states serve as its intermediary. The article proposes a new way of understanding a state's sovereignty - not as legal or ideological, but as an environmental practice.
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Why is it important?
Political theory is falling behind in understanding the reality of the global ecological crisis and will not be able to provide new, coherent visions of the future and the tools of attaining them, unless it acknowledges the truth of the relation between the state, capital and nature. Important theoretical and empirical contributions have been made in other sciences, but still need to be properly introduced into political science and International Relations.
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Theorizing state sovereignty in different ways is just a start and much more needs to be done to adapt political theory to the changing conditions of late modernity, with its specific phase of capitalism and the ongoing ecological crisis.
Piotr Walewicz
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego
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This page is a summary of: Sovereignty as an environmental practice: the problem of territoriality and anthropocentrism, Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations, July 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/stomiedintrelat.17575.2.
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