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From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships

Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions

  • Introduces a new critical systems approach of multi-species relationships
  • Explores collaborative approaches, drawing on diverse ways of knowing, and citizen centered self-governance of ecological footprints that can support regional governance in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Highlights culturally diverse ways of interconnectedness, caring and stewardship to provide practical lessons on re-generation

Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
  2. Rethinking Human Security and Resilience as Vulnerable Multispecies Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Changing Face of City Life in Vietnam

      • Huong Nguyen, Y. Corcoran Nantes, Janet J. McIntyre-Mills
      Pages 261-279
  3. Reframing and Re-Claiming the Commons Through A Priori and A Posteriori Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281
    2. Social and Environmental Justice

      • Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, A. N. Christakis
      Pages 283-307
    3. Social Engagement to Protect Multispecies Habitat: Implications for Re-Generation and Food Security

      • Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, R. Wirawan, I. Widianingsih, R. Riswanda
      Pages 309-368
    4. Educational Curriculum and Multispecies Relations

      • Pinkie Louisa Mabunda, Veronica McKay
      Pages 369-389
    5. The Potential of Eco-Facturing: Towards Social and Environmental Justice Through Vocational Education and Training

      • Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, Y. Corcoran-Nantes, R. J. Wirawan, I. Widianingsih
      Pages 391-423

About this book

This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests   critical systemic  pathways to  protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of rapid urbanisation places humanity at risk. This book demonstrates how narrow anthropocentrism has focused on the rights of human beings at the expense of other species and the environment. This book explores a priori norms and a posteriori measures and indicators to  include and protect multiple species. This book aims to strengthen institutional capacity and powers to  address and extend the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by drawing on local wisdom but also the need to implement laws to prevent ecocide. This book highlights that our fragile interdependence requires a recognition of our hybridity and interconnectedness within the web of life and  suggests ways to reframe  policy within and beyond the nation state to support living systems ofwhich we are a strand.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Sturt, Australia

    Janet J. McIntyre-Mills

  • College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

About the editors

Janet McIntyre-Mills (DLitt et Phil, Sociology) is Honorary Professor at University of South Africa , ranked by the National Research Foundation in South Africa and Visiting Research Fellow at the Yunus Social Business Centre within the University of Adelaide Business School since Dec 2019. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University and holds affiliations with universities in Indonesia, such as the University of Indonesia and Universitas Padjadjaran where she is affiliated with the Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research. She has been nominated ‘Sociologist of the Month’ in August 2019 by the Current Sociology Journal in recognition of her paper: ‘Recognising our hybridity and Connectedness’. Her research focuses on systemic representation , accountability and re-generation applied to social and environmental justice concerns and includes both edited and sole authored volumes such as :Planetary Passport: Re-presentation, Accountabilityand Re-Generation and Systemic Ethics and non-anthropocentric stewardship Springer, New York.orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-1228 



Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes (PhD Sociology) is an International Gender Consultant and a Principal Research Fellow in the Social Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University. She is also an Associate of the Gender Consortium at Flinders University and Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. She engages with some of the major issues facing women globally and specialises in gender specific research in non-western countries in the field of development and international politics, dealing with issues such as gender equality, human rights, gender-based violence, sustainable development, terrorism and conflict. She wrote a seminal work on Central Asian women entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books and is now in its 12thedition. She is presently working on a book about women resistance fighters in the American War in Vietnam



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships

  • Book Subtitle: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions

  • Editors: Janet J. McIntyre-Mills, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

  • Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6884-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6883-5Published: 06 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6886-6Published: 07 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6884-2Published: 05 August 2021

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2846

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLI, 777

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Development and Social Change, Development Policy, Public Policy, Urban Politics, Urban Economics

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