Queer Ecologies and More-than-human Care.

Content of the event

The lecture is dedicated to the question of what care, queer theoretical approaches, and understandings of the world in which nature is not understood as the other of humans have to do with agriculture. It focuses on counter-hegemonic human-nature relations that contradict neoliberal logics of exploitation in which nature is considered a resource. Based on practical examples, the role of care practices that go beyond purely human relations in agriculture will be elaborated, and to what extent these can be understood as radical political actions that counteract climate change, species extinction, and world loss. With a view to decolonial and indigenous research approaches, these connections will also be classified in terms of the history of science, thus also shedding light on epistemic power relations.

Language: German with English translation via Zoom

Information about the Advisers

Sophie von Redecker is a doctoral candidate in ecological agricultural sciences at the Universities of Kassel-Witzenhausen/JLU Gießen and an associate member of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's doctoral program "Crisis and Socio-Ecological Transformation". She conducts research from a peasant perspective as well as with postcolonial, queer, and multispecies theoretical approaches to the human-nature relationship and is developing a new trans- and interdisciplinary field of research, the Agrarian(Post-)Humanities, in her doctoral dissertation. She understands her scholarly work as scholar activism and works on and with La Via Campesina.

She has curated exhibitions that have emerged from scholar-artist research and leads workshops on queer feminism and agriculture. She received her first education from sheep, combines, and sandy soil on her parents' organic farm.

Last published:

June 2023: Redecker, Sophie v. & Ella von der Haide (2023): Care & Compost. Queer-feminist revolutions in/of/for and with soils. A conversation. In: Feminist Geo-RundMail
Information around Feminist Geography No. 93, Gender & Agri-Food Studies Theme Issue | June 2023.

Dec 2022: Redecker, Sophie v. (2022): Agrarian (Post-)Humanities. In: Braidotti, R., Jones, E., & Klumbyte, G.: More Posthuman Glossary (Theory in the New Humanities). Bloomsbury Publishing.