terricideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

terricide (複数形 terricides)

1. The destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life.
   • 1983 April 9, Kenneth Hale Wehmann, “Conscientious Resistance”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     I have served notice to the state that I am withdrawing my support of its program of terricide in every way I can.

   • 2014, Gastón R. Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction, Duke University Press, page 83:

     Stuart Elden, for instance, proposes to use the concept of “terricide” to name the damage being inflicted on the living surfaces of the globe.

   • 2017, Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays‎^[1], Bauverlag, page 206:

     Such images thus offer a dramatic, disturbing and unsettling visualization of the socially and ecologically disastrous operational landscapes of extended urbanization – Lefebvre might have described them as a form of "terricide" – that are being forged at a truly colossal scale to support and reproduce urban life under twenty-first-century capitalism.

   • 2022, Anja Habersang, “Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina”, in Social Movement Studies, →DOI, page 7:

     In this context, terricide defines the destruction of the three dimensions that shape life and existence: The tangible ecosystems, the people who inhabit them, and the energies that regulate life on earth and constitute the perceptible ecosystems.

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