Miyazaki Hayao's Animism and the Anthropocene

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dc.contributor.authorYoneyama, S.
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityShoko Yoneyama
dc.identifier.citationTheory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science, 2021; 38(7-8):251-266
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/02632764211030550
dc.identifier.issn0263-2764
dc.identifier.issn1460-3616
dc.identifier.orcidYoneyama, S. [0000-0002-3795-4313]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/135591
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
dc.source.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02632764211030550
dc.subjectanimism; Anthropocene; climate change; human-nature relationship; Minamata; Miyazaki Hayao; Studio Ghibli
dc.titleMiyazaki Hayao's Animism and the Anthropocene
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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