Editors - Rose BranderÅsa Sonjasdotter
Violence calls for a response, especially in its relation to the environment, where it is inescapably directly linked to matters of justice. Ongoing neocolonial extraction comes with the profound effect of altering human lives and their environment, to such extent that parts of the planet have become or are rapidly becoming uninhabitable. The brutal inequity of this emergency continues to prioritise capital at the cost of humans and the marginalisation of environmental issues, with devastating impact, accompanied by pervasive social and political injustices.
The “Environment” strand of essays that is the result of the PARSE conference on “Violence” offers various examples and unpacks different conceptual propositions to counter imperialist legacies and patriarchal violences perpetrated against and upon the Earth. The contributions here engage in transdisciplinary research and with practices that confront, critique and reconfigure these environmentally and politically charged matters and the narratives that shape them.
This selection of contributions, alongside an additional text, aims to continue the trajectory of the discussions and exchanges across disciplines and artistic practices, offering considerations around representation and extractivism, aesthetics as ethics, archives and photography as a tool for witnessing the slow violence enacted on the Earth.