Introduction

International Relations (IR) is traditionally theorised from the grounds of a socially constructed metaphysics that logically excludes recognition of the ecological framework to life. What if we were to instead theorise from the ground upon which we walk? What if we were to accept the term, relations, in its broadest sense, rather than in its inherited understanding of diplomatic dealings between representatives of states? A perspective acknowledging both the ecological contextualisation to political life and the unlimited potential of relations between subjects would both confound the bound nature of the discipline and respond to the urgent need to address the consequences of environmental calamities and global disparities. Such an expansive reading of politics would necessarily reach for sustainable solutions alongside the discipline’s founding normative goal of seeking peace.