Uncommoning nature: stories from the Anthropo-not-seen

Abstract

Increasing consumption of minerals and energy has led to an unprecedented destruction of what we know as nature and natural resources, usually located in territories inhabited by indigenous groups who respond politically to this destruction, joining movements that protest the destruction of the environment. Conceptualizing a radically different politics as “uncommoning nature”, the author presents what she calls the “anthropo-notseen”: a worldmaking process through which heterogeneous worlds that do not make themselves through the division between humans and nonhumans are both obliged into that distinction and exceed it.