Environmental Justice, Unknowability and Unqualified Affectability

32 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2012 Last revised: 2 Sep 2013

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Kristie Dotson

Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy

Kyle Whyte

University of Michigan

Date Written: December 5, 2012

Abstract

Environmental injustices often remain unknowable. An important argument for overcoming unknowability suggests that corporeal affectivity is integral for moral knowledge. However, when one begins to consider something like a global community and global environmental justice, corporeal affect becomes difficult to map. We will argue that one must begin to think beyond affectability as embodied emotion to also include affectability as unqualified interdependence when considering a global community. In turn, considering ethics in a global community can aid in identifying strategies to counter several dimensions of unknowability, i.e. present absence and the abjection of difference, in environmental justice situations.

Keywords: environmental justice, moral terrains, corporeal affectivity, Robert Figueroa

Suggested Citation

Dotson, Kristie and Whyte, Kyle, Environmental Justice, Unknowability and Unqualified Affectability (December 5, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2185532 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2185532

Kristie Dotson

Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy ( email )

503 S. Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
United States

Kyle Whyte (Contact Author)

University of Michigan ( email )

440 Church Street
Dana Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
United States

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