Date of Award

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Noble, Christopher

Area of Concentration

Humanities with Philosophy Secondary Field

Abstract

This thesis project examines the relationship between the social–material philosophy of anarchism and the spiritual–ecological philosophy of animism in terms of their commonalities and points of disagreement, the existing state of their connections, and the possibility of their further integration. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the general traditions and perspectives of anarchist and animist philosophy, and attends to the state of their connections. Chapter 2 examines the core texts of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, whose conversation evokes certain concepts, most notably the idea of the “property-relation,” which provide a possible foundation for constructing a more explicit and substantial bridge between the fields. Chapter 3 involves the development of a working philosophical system that pulls from feminist, Indigenous, ecological, and phenomenological thought to critically assess the property-relation—fleshing out its meaning, scope, and integrative role between anarchist and animist philosophy and practice.

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