More-than-human Politics: critical perspectives on the global climate crisis

In this seminar we will engage with the global climate crisis through a Posthuman perspective. Drawing on a wide array of critical inputs from Political Ecology, Anthropological research, Multispecies Ethnography, New Materialism, the Ontological and the Geological Turns, we will challenge the dominant anthropocentric paradigm that postulates human exceptionalism and independence. The aim of the seminar is deconstructing human-nonhuman separateness, in favor of the recognition of the hybrid nature of subjectivities, the entanglement and co-implication of people and their nonhuman environment. We will explore the socio-political implications of this theoretical shift, discussing the role of nonhuman actors in scholarly and activist debates, and assuming the possibility of a more-than-human form of resistance. Please note that the seminar is fully taught in English.