Dr. Rosine Kelz
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Projects & Publications
Abstract – Workshop
Climate change and biodiversity loss have inspired new forms of environmental activism and
institutionalized environmental politics. The novel prominence of nonhuman living beings and
entities in the political realm necessitates the reformulation of core concepts of political theory, like
agency, responsibility and justice. At the same time, the Anthropocene thesis has inspired theorists
in the social sciences and humanities to develop new conceptual engagements with the non-human
world, expressed by terms such as the “more-than-human” or “NatureCultures”. The workshop
invites participants from the discipline of political theory to explore how such conceptual
developments in neighboring disciplines can help to rethink the relationships between humans and
animals and between humans and their planetary environment in political terms. Participants from
environmental philosophy, science and technology studies and geography are invited to explore the
political significance of their ideas of the “more-than-human”. This interdisciplinary exchange will
establish a broader basis for environmental political theory as a subfield of research in the German
political theory community, while strengthening international research collaborations. Together,
participants from across the social sciences and humanities explore synergies and disagreements in
environmental thought, and develop strategies for successful collaborations with the natural
sciences, policy makers and the public sphere.