Anthroparchy

Quick meaning: Anthroparchy is a noun meaning A social system of attitudes, practices, and institutions through which the natural world is dominated to the benefit of humans.

Meaning

A social system of attitudes, practices, and institutions through which the natural world is dominated to the benefit of humans.

Example Sentences

I suggest that five sub-systems, sets of institutions and processes network to form a social system of anthroparchy.

I think, rather, that the anthroparchy's fully legitimate origin allows us to grant it the force and power necessary to fulfill its important mission.

Cudworth's own approach to intersecting oppression is the development of a theory of anthroparchy: 'a social system, a complex and relatively stable set of hierarchical relationships in which “nature” is dominated through formations of social organization which privilege the human' (2011: 67).

Word Forms

• anthroparchies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anthropocentrism, anthropocentricism, anthropocentrist, hominism, dominionism, antianthropocentrism.

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