Paper short abstract:

We explore some of the key dimensions of relationality, such as more than human perspectives, unfolding relations, and socionature justice to delve into key insights, lines of flight and radical pathways for theory and praxis in the global North, as well as South.

Paper long abstract:

Relationality plays a pivotal role in emerging contemporary critical social sciences, humanities and arts, but continues to have relatively limited traction in environmental sustainability and development studies. We explore some of the key dimensions of relationality, such as more than human perspectives, unfolding relations, and socionature justice to explore key insights, lines of flight and radical pathways for theory and praxis in the global North, as well as South. There is fruitful ground for unsettling sustainability sciences and development approaches by amplifying currently marginal perspectives, such as those offered by relationality and critical social sciences. We analyse how marginal perspectives and disciplines can support resistances to orthodoxies and hegemonies, expanding specific sets of relations and rhizomatic expansions in senses of selves and place, and in notions of community, temporalities, (in)visibilities and accountabilities. This paper explores: (i) how relational perspectives can support the unlearning and undoing of dominant discourses and practices in relation to sustainability ( (iii) how relational perspectives can advance socionature justice and repair. We draw upon research and community arts engagements on imaginaries and future-making in Guatemala, Kenya, and the UK.