SCC Elite Centre for Mobilizing Post-Anthropocentric Climate Action: A New Root Narrative (PACA)
Mitigating the current crises is a matter of political rather than private (consumer and corporate) agency. At the same time, private agency is also necessary for successful climate practices. For the necessary constraining and regulatory political measures to be legitimate and enduring in democratic societies, these measures cannot be in contradiction with the dominant anthropocentric ontology of human-being-in-the-world.
Thus, a post-anthropocentric ontology underpinning private actions is a prerequisite for a successful implementation of regulatory measures to mitigate the climate and biodiversity crisis.
The aim of this elite centre is to map post-anthropocentric social theory and investigate selected traces of such post-anthropocentrism in the population. Our objectives are to assess the extent to which such practices and beliefs can provide a positive narrative for a new social organisation of production and consumption processes and, finally, the role of universities as mediators of the emergent post-anthropocentrism and its challenges to the nature-culture divide.
Thus, we seek to address a fundamental anthropocentric bias that undermines the potential success of political, social and economic attempts to mitigate the climate crisis. Our hypothesis is that an effective mitigation of the climate crisis requires addressing the ecological imbalances beyond carbon emissions, something that necessitates getting beyond entrenched anthropocentrism.
PI for PACA: Professor WSR, Patricia Wolf, Department of Business & Management, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, pawo@sam.sdu.dk
Co-PIs for PACA:
Professor Søren Askegaard, Department of Business & Management & DIAS, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, aske@sam.sdu.dk
Associate Professor Bryan Yazell, Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication & DIAS, Faculty of Humanities, yazell@sdu.dk
Project team:
Postdoc Kristoffer Balslev Willert, Department of Business & Management, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, kwi@sam.sdu.dk
PhD Ida Raunkjær, Department of Business & Management, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, idra@sam.sdu.dk
PhD Tatiana Tilly, Department of Culture and Language, Faculty of Humanities, tilly@sdu.dk
Postdoc Leonardo Nolé, Department of Culture and Language, Faculty of Humanities, lnole@sdu.dk
Research Assistant Josephine Ottesen, Department of Business & Management, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, joot@sam.sdu.dk