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African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis
Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/103370 African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis Matolino, Bernard mblack.mitchell@gmail.com Black, Mitchell-Ron UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) African philosophy Critical complexity Relationality Agricultural ethics Political ontology Food Systems transformation Metacrisis Polycrisis Eurocentrism Mythocentrism Thesis (PhD (Philosophy))--University of Pretoria, 2024. The Industrial Agricultural Complex (IAC) and its impact on soil agroecosystems is generally underexplored in the literature on environmental ethics, but specifically underexplored from an African thought perspective, raising the question: How could we justify and then defend the moral value of microcosmic life in relation to other- than-human Life from an African thought perspective? Using a Bricolage method constellated between (Post-)Interdisciplinarity, Conversationalism, Critical Complexity Theory, Afrocentricity, Decoloniality and Engaged Philosophy, this thesis posits and defends an apparent moral obligation to abandon the IAC in favour of transitioning towards an agroecological food system. After reaching this seemingly (im)possible conclusion, which calls for a radical transformation of our food systems on a scale without meaningful or practical precedent, this thesis then raises the prospect of a future South African society that is agroecologically sustained in a way that is equally beautiful, just, and good. By exploring the insights and implications of said transition related to aesthetics, political ontology, and the question of order, the analysis reveals a key set of insights termed ‘Afrignosis’ that frame certain African thought perspectives as inherently sensitive to Cosmos and Complexity, as a view on ontology giving way to a notion of Being-Becoming as cosmic unfoldment. In doing so, this work interrogates the dominant Eurocentric instantiations of order that create and perpetuate the IAC as a matter of urgent Situational politics by (re)articulating alternative mythocentric forms of order from Africa to provoke (re)generative thinking about the (im)possibility of societal (re)orientation. Philosophy PhD (Philosophy) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-13: Climate action 2025-07-15T09:35:28Z 2025-07-15T09:35:28Z 2025-09 2024-11 Thesis * S2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103370 Disclaimer Letter en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) African philosophy Critical complexity Relationality Agricultural ethics Political ontology Food Systems transformation Metacrisis Polycrisis Eurocentrism Mythocentrism African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis |
| title | African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis |
| title_full | African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis |
| title_fullStr | African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis |
| title_short | African cosmic complexity, food production and the situation of (meta-)polycrisis |
| title_sort | african cosmic complexity food production and the situation of meta polycrisis |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) African philosophy Critical complexity Relationality Agricultural ethics Political ontology Food Systems transformation Metacrisis Polycrisis Eurocentrism Mythocentrism |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103370 |