Blanco-Wells Gustavo
Instituto de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
Centro de Investigación en Dinámicas de Ecosistemas Marinos de Altas Latitudes, Valdivia, Chile.
Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 8;12:633737. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633737. eCollection 2021.
This conceptual paper explores the theoretical possibilities of posthumanism and presents ecologies of repair as a heuristic device to explore the association modes of different entities, which, when confronted with the effects of human-induced destructive events, seek to repair the damage and transform the conditions of coexistence of various life forms. The central idea is that severe socio-environmental crisis caused by an intensification of industrial activity are conducive to observing new sociomaterial configurations and affective dispositions that, through the reorganization of practices of resistance, remediation, and mutual care, are oriented to generating reparative and/or transformative processes from damaged ecologies and communities. Crises constitute true ontological experimentation processes where the presence of other-than-human natures, and of artifacts or devices that participate in reparative actions, become visible. A post-human approach to nature allows us to use languages and methodologies that do not restrict the emergence of assemblages under the assumption of their ontological separation, but rather examine their reparative potential based on the efficacy of situated relationships. Methodologically, transdisciplinarity is relevant, with ethnography and other engaged methods applied over units of observation and experience called socio-geo-ecologies. The relevant attributes of these socio-geo-ecologies, beyond the individual, community, or institutional aspects, are the specific geological characteristics that make possible an entanglement of interdependent relationships between human and non-human agents. The conceptual analysis is illustrated with empirical examples stemming from socio-geo-ecologies researched in Southern Chile.
这篇概念性论文探讨了后人类主义的理论可能性，并提出修复生态作为一种启发式手段，以探索不同实体的关联模式。当面对人类引发的破坏性事件的影响时，这些实体试图修复损害并改变各种生命形式的共存条件。核心观点是，工业活动加剧导致的严重社会环境危机有利于观察新的社会物质配置和情感倾向，这些配置和倾向通过抵抗、补救和相互关怀实践的重组，旨在从受损的生态和社区中产生修复和/或变革过程。危机构成了真正的本体论实验过程，在这个过程中，非人类自然以及参与修复行动的人工制品或设备的存在变得可见。一种后人类的自然观使我们能够使用语言和方法，这些语言和方法不会在本体论分离的假设下限制组合的出现，而是基于情境关系的有效性来考察它们的修复潜力。在方法论上，跨学科性很重要，民族志和其他参与性方法应用于被称为社会地理生态的观察和经验单位。这些社会地理生态的相关属性，除了个体、社区或机构方面之外，是特定的地质特征，这些特征使得人类和非人类主体之间相互依存关系的纠缠成为可能。概念分析通过来自智利南部研究的社会地理生态的实证例子来说明。
