Antroposen, Posthümanizm ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramının ‘Ekoloji’ Taahhüdünün Tarihsel Materyalist Eleştirisi

Year 2021, Volume: 18 Issue: 71, 87 - 107, 26.10.2021

Yelda Erçandırlı

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.912034

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Bu makale, Uluslararası İlişkiler (Uİ) kuramının gündemine giderek yerleşen Antroposen tartışmalarının eleştirel
analizine odaklanmakta ve Antroposen olarak tanımlanan çağda bir sosyal disiplin olarak Uİ’nin vaatlerini ve
sorunlarını incelemektedir. Bu tartışmaların odak noktasını insan/doğa ikiliğini aşma çabası oluşturmaktadır.
Posthümanistler, Antroposen çalışmalarını kavrama yüklenen anlamın insan-merkezciliği ve anaakım Uİ
çalışmalarını yeniden ürettiği gerekçesiyle reddetmektedirler. Bu çalışma, söz konusu tartışmanın odağının
insan-merkezcilik sorunsalından toplumun doğa ile değişen ilişkisine doğru evrilmesi gerektiğini savunmaktadır.
Ekolojik krizin ancak toplumsal yapılar ve bu yapıları ortaya çıkaran tarihsel-maddi ilişkiler çerçevesinde
düşünüldüğü zaman anlaşılabileceğini iddia etmektedir. Bu bakımdan makaledeki eleştiri ve yaklaşım, özellikle
sosyal bilimlerde toplum-doğa ilişkisine yönetilen tarihsel materyalist analiz ile örtüşmektedir.

Keywords

Kapitalosen, Ekolojik Kriz, İnsan-Merkezcilik, Toplum-Doğa İkiliği, Tarihsizlik

Anthropocene, Posthumanism and a Historical Materialist Critique of the ‘Ecological’ Promise of International Relations Theory

Abstract

This study focuses on a critical analysis of the Anthropocene narratives that are increasingly occupying the center
of the discussion in the International Relations (IR) theory and attempts to address the promises and problems
of the IR as a social discipline in the age defined as the Anthropocene. The main point of these studies constitutes
an effort to overcome the duality between human and nature. Posthumanists reject the Anthropocene studies on
the grounds that the meaning attributed to the concept reproduces anthropocentrism and mainstream IR studies.
The study argues that the focus of the discussions should be shifted from the problematic of anthropocentrism
to the changing relationship between society and nature. Accordingly, it claims that ecological crisis can only be
understood as it is considered within the framework of the social structures and historical material relations that
constitute these structures. In this respect, the criticism and approach in the study coincides with the historical
materialist analysis, directed especially onto the relationship between society and nature in the social sciences.

Keywords

Capitalocene, Ecological Crisis, Anthropocentrism, Society-Nature Duality, Ahistoricism

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