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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Miyazaki Hayao's Animism and the Anthropocene |
Author: | Yoneyama, S. |
Citation: | Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science, 2021; 38(7-8):251-266 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
ISSN: | 0263-2764 1460-3616 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Shoko Yoneyama |
Abstract: | The need for a reconsideration of human-nature relationships has been widely recognized in the Anthropocene. It is difficult to rethink, however, because there is a crisis of imagination that is deeply entrenched within the fundamental premises of modernity. This article explores how ‘critical animism’ developed by Miyazaki Hayao of Studio Ghibli can address this paucity of imagination by providing alternative ways of knowing and being. ‘Critical animism’ emerged from the fusion of a critique of modernity with informal cultural heritage in Japan. It is a philosophy that perceives nature as a non-dualistic combination of the life-world and the spiritual-world, while also emphasizing the significance of place. Miyazaki’s critical animism challenges anthropocentrism, secularism, Eurocentrism, as well as dualism. It may be the ‘perfect story’ that could disrupt the existing paradigm, offering a promise to rethink human-nonhuman relationships and envisaging a new paradigm for the social sciences. |
Keywords: | animism; Anthropocene; climate change; human-nature relationship; Minamata; Miyazaki Hayao; Studio Ghibli |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2021. Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) |
DOI: | 10.1177/02632764211030550 |
Published version: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02632764211030550 |
Appears in Collections: | Asian Studies publications Aurora harvest 8 |
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