Join us for our third lunch seminar this fall semester with Dr Bohuslav Kuřík from Charles University, Czech Republic
Abstract:
Who does resist, with whom and against whom? What consequences arise from the recognition of the capacity to act politically? These questions have long been considered exclusively human. However, in the Anthropocene, they are increasingly revealed in scholarly literature as more than human – other-than-human beings or materials become more often conceived of as not only food, resources or symbols but as allies or enemies in more-than-human struggles. How to comprehend the pretty strange battles (Latour 2021) in which the Earth, in its multiplicity of processes and forms, is no longer just a chessboard in the background of human struggles, but one of its sides? In order to better understand such messy Anthropocenic conflicts, the talk intents to sharpen an analytical tool emerging in the last years in anthropology and environmental humanities – the concept of more-than-human resistance. What is more, such concept elaboration, I argue, enables and advances much-needed encounters between multispecies and political anthropology, to the benefit of both. The concept helps to unravel some blind spots, and limits in both sub-disciplines, and move conceptual debates forward. In the lecture, five such productive encounters are targeted.
Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98825782734. Please keep in mind that to access the talk via Zoom, you’ll need to sign in with your @wisc.edu login credentials.