Thinking Critical Agrarian Studies Further - Agrarian (Post-)Humanities

Speaker: Sophie von Redecker

The approach of the Agrarian (Post-)Humanities presented in this talk proposes to complement Critical Agrarian Studies (CAS) with further power-critical analyses and, above all, to question anthropocentric perspectives more strongly. If CAS builds more on Marxist theories and answers political-economic questions, Agrarian (Post-)Humanities looks more at socio-ecological entanglements and begins with a critique of the current (post-)colonial human-nature relationship. Drawing on the Environmental Humanities, posthuman approaches, and indigenous ontologies, this presentation proposes that critical Agrarian Humanities begin with a transformed understanding of nature and the environment and focus on new ways of producing knowledge. In order to expose and critique hegemonic and power-charged binaries (not only those between humans/nature), the Agrarian (Post-)Humanities link to CAS research, but complement it with current theoretical concepts.

For an overview of the event series and the Zoom link:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/go/veranstaltungsreihe_critical_agrarian_studies