This PhD project is conducted as part of the SDU Climate Cluster Elite Centre PACA (Post-Anthropocentric Climate Action). In my particular project, I am curious about how nature conservationists in Denmark make use of both post-anthropocentric and anthropocentric narratives on nature in their political work.
Accordingly, I’m ethnographically examining how members of particular environmental networks in Denmark are carrying out landscaping practices on different scales such as nature care in local environments or landscape transitioning in larger areas. Through anthropological methods and multispecies ethnography, I examine these landscaping practices and the underlying intentionalities as well as the nature perceptions of these practitioners. Inspired by ecofeminist, political ecology, and degrowth movements and literature, my overall focus is to explore whether these practices may be considered examples of post-anthropocentric actions sowing the seeds for a larger, ecological movement.
Contact: Ida Raunkjær, idra@sam.sdu.dk
Main supervisor: Søren Askegaard, aske@sam.sdu.dk
Co-supervisor: Patricia Wolf, pawo@sam.sdu.dk