On October 10, CETE-P Research Team Leader Iwona Janicka delivered her inaugural lecture, "Ecological Grand Narratives: Cohabitability with More-than-Human Worlds," discussing key areas of her research, including social transformation, politics with nonhumans, and ecofeminist philosophy.
Iwona Janicka's lecture explored two main claims against the backdrop of asking how to reimagine humanity's place on Earth in the face of climate change and how to enact collective political change for a life-affirming future. First, she argued that grand narratives are essential for envisioning ecological futures despite their bad reputation. Second, Janicka proposed that these narratives serve as a cosmological rebooting necessary for shaping a better collective future, fundamentally redrawing our ontological understanding and enabling the creation of more habitable worlds for humans and non-humans alike.
The lecture emphasized ecofeminist philosophy, demonstrating how it allows rethinking of human positioning on the planet and conceptualizes a grander scale of cohabitation with non-humans. Hence, Janicka argued for more diverse, ecofeminist grand narratives to reimagine our collective destiny.
The recording of the lecture will be published soon.
Iwona Janicka is Research Team Leader at CETE-P and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She works in twentieth- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy: environmental philosophy, political philosophy and feminist philosophy, with a particular focus on the questions of social transformation. Her current book project examines how to rethink politics with nonhumans in the context of climate change. She is the author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism. Solidarity, Mimesis and Radical Social Change (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). Her work has been published in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy Today, Textual Practice and SubStance.
For more information, including her publications, please consult her webpage.
Photos: Romana Kovacsova
On October 10, CETE-P Research Team Leader Iwona Janicka delivered her inaugural lecture, "Ecological Grand Narratives: Cohabitability with More-than-Human Worlds," discussing key areas of her research, including social transformation, politics with nonhumans, and ecofeminist philosophy.
Iwona Janicka's lecture explored two main claims against the backdrop of asking how to reimagine humanity's place on Earth in the face of climate change and how to enact collective political change for a life-affirming future. First, she argued that grand narratives are essential for envisioning ecological futures despite their bad reputation. Second, Janicka proposed that these narratives serve as a cosmological rebooting necessary for shaping a better collective future, fundamentally redrawing our ontological understanding and enabling the creation of more habitable worlds for humans and non-humans alike.
The lecture emphasized ecofeminist philosophy, demonstrating how it allows rethinking of human positioning on the planet and conceptualizes a grander scale of cohabitation with non-humans. Hence, Janicka argued for more diverse, ecofeminist grand narratives to reimagine our collective destiny.
The recording of the lecture will be published soon.
Iwona Janicka is Research Team Leader at CETE-P and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She works in twentieth- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy: environmental philosophy, political philosophy and feminist philosophy, with a particular focus on the questions of social transformation. Her current book project examines how to rethink politics with nonhumans in the context of climate change. She is the author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism. Solidarity, Mimesis and Radical Social Change (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). Her work has been published in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophy Today, Textual Practice and SubStance.
For more information, including her publications, please consult her webpage.
Photos: Romana Kovacsova
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