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

Speaker: Sophie von Redecker

The Agrarian (Post-)Humanities approach presented in this lecture proposes to complement Critical Agrarian Studies (CAS) with further power-critical analyses and, above all, to question anthropocentric perspectives more strongly. While CAS builds more strongly on Marxist theories and answers political-economic questions, the agrarian (post-)humanities focus more on socio-ecological interdependencies and begin with a critique of the current (post-)colonial relationship between humans and nature. Drawing on environmental humanities, posthuman approaches and indigenous ontologies, this lecture proposes that critical agrarian studies should start from a changed understanding of nature and the environment and focus on new ways of knowledge production. In order to uncover and critically question hegemonic and powerfully charged binaries (not only those between humans and nature), the agrarian (post-)humanities build on CAS research, but supplement it with current theoretical concepts.

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