- Title
- Check your anthroprivilege! Situated knowledge and geographical imagination as an antidote to environmental speciesism, anthroparchy, and human fragility
- Creator
- Springer, Simon
- Relation
- Vegan Geographies: Spaces Beyond Violence, Ethics Beyond Speciesism p. 96-110
- Publisher
- Lantern Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- It is difficult to know where to begin in writing about anthroprivilege, precisely because it is so overwhelmingly pervasive in our contemporary world. What I mean by anthroprivilege are the social norms that reinforce anthropocentrism and confer automatic, unearned benefits upon human individuals. Perhaps the best place to begin, then, is in the somatic domain, as anthroprivilege is something that we as humans all embody. The expression of anthroprivilege is encapsulated in the following reactions. Upon reading my title, you have rolled your eyes or snickered under your breath. You've immediately dismissed the idea as navel-gazing. You reject the connotations it has for questions of race, gender, sexuality, and other positionalities wherein privilege and normativity are key spheres of struggle, which you feel are ultimately incomparable. You have thought to yourself, Here come the vegan police again, in the same contemptuous way as the alt-right regards so-called “social justice warriors.” Anthroprivilege is fundamentally made possible by such an aversion to critical reflection on human positionality.
- Subject
- anthroprivilege; veganism; environmental speciesism; human supremacy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446545
- Identifier
- uon:42903
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781590566596
- Language
- eng
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