ResisTerra: towards anthropology of more-than-human resistance

課程概述與目標：

「誰」在抵抗？「誰」與「誰」團結？又是「誰」、如何、針對「誰」在要求自由與正義？而這個「誰」一旦被認可具有政治能動性，又將衍生出什麼樣的權利與義務？以上這些長期以來被認為是專屬於「人類」的議題，在人類世（人類對地球產生決定性影響）的當下此刻，越來越被證明是「不僅止於人類（more-than-human）」的多物種課題。無論是野火、水災、殺不死的雜草、超級傳染病，或者外來入侵生物，都是自然與人類共同製造出來的麻煩。與其怪罪於「極端氣候」或是特定物種的「入侵性」，我們更應該學習的，是練習看見這些「無法或難以馴服的自然」與特定人類生活方式與思維慣性之間的關連性。這堂課結合環境人類學和政治人類學的關懷，並將以上複雜的社會生態共構現象概念化為「多物種抵抗」。藉此，我們將一起重新思考環境政治，不再僅將非人類的生命視為被開採的被動資源或保護對象，而是積極的行動主體，也是人類在面對人類世各種危機時潛在的敵人與盟友。課程將由甫獲得國家重點領域國際合作聯盟（UAAT）2024年國際年輕學者短期訪問獎助之 Bob Kuřík (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Charles University, Czech Republic) ，與到訪並進行教學合作之本校客家學院人社系副教授蔡晏霖共同教授。

Who resists and who is in solidarity with whom? Who, how, against whom is demanding freedom and justice? What rights and duties arise from the recognition of the capacity to act politically? These questions, long thought to be exclusively human, are increasingly proved to be more-than-human in the Anthropocene, the age of Human’s defining influence on the Earth. Whether it is the granting of heroism to weeds, the declaration of war on viruses, or the legal subjectivity of rivers, in all such examples unruly nature interwoven into myriad human worlds causes trouble together. In the Anthropocene, the interdependence of humans and nature comes to the fore. This manifests itself in many emerging forms of so-called ‘more-than-human resistance’. This concept, which we will introduce in this course at the intersection of environmental and political anthropology, allows us to rethink environmental politics by conceiving of non-humans not only as passive resources of extraction or objects of protection, but as active “subjects,” potential enemies and allies in confronting the threats of the Anthropocene.