Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity

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Nature and the international : towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity. / Corry, Olaf.

I: Globalizations, Bind 17, Nr. 3, 3, 2020, s. 419-435.

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Corry, O 2020, 'Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity', Globalizations, bind 17, nr. 3, 3, s. 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1676587

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Corry, O. (2020). Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity. Globalizations, 17(3), 419-435. [3]. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1676587

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Corry O. Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity. Globalizations. 2020;17(3):419-435. 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2019.1676587

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Corry, Olaf. / Nature and the international : towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity. I: Globalizations. 2020 ; Bind 17, Nr. 3. s. 419-435.

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abstract = "The global environmental crisis requires a grasp of how human society interacts with nature, but also, simultaneously, how the world is divided into multiple societies. International Relations has a weak grasp of nature treating it as external to the international–an {\textquoteleft}environment{\textquoteright} to be managed–while environmentalism has a planetary epistemology that occludes the significance of the international. How to break this impasse? While neither Geopolitics nor {\textquoteleft}new materialism{\textquoteright} capture the complex conjuncture of socio-natural and inter-societal dynamics, I argue that Justin Rosenberg{\textquoteright}s theorization of the international as {\textquoteleft}the consequences of societal multiplicity{\textquoteright} provides a theoretical opening. If a materialist notion of societal is adopted, {\textquoteleft}societal multiplicity{\textquoteright} allows human-natural and international dynamics to be grasped together. Thus, climate change is not a problem arising exogenously to the international, but something emerging through international dynamics, reciprocally affecting the units, structure and processes of the international system itself.",
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