About PACA
Post-Anthropocentric Climate Action (PACA) explores how societies can rethink the relationship between humans, nature, and climate action. The project brings together researchers, citizens, and communities to create a shared space for dialogue, experimentation, learning, and co-creation.
PACA is grounded in the idea that addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation requires more than technological solutions or individual lifestyle changes. It also requires new ways of understanding humanity’s place in the world.
Why a Post-Anthropocentric Perspective?
Many current approaches to climate and environmental challenges are based on an anthropocentric worldview—one that places humans outside or above nature and treats economic growth as an endless goal. PACA starts from the assumption that this worldview limits both political action and societal change.
Instead, the project explores post-anthropocentric perspectives, which decenter human exceptionality and recognize nature as having intrinsic value. Such perspectives challenge the sharp divide between nature and culture and open up new ways of imagining how production, consumption, and social organization might be transformed.
What Does PACA Do?
The project has three main objectives:
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Mapping post-anthropocentric social theory, drawing on existing research that rethinks the human–nature relationship.
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Investigating emerging post-anthropocentric practices and beliefs within society, identifying where and how alternative narratives are already taking shape.
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Exploring the role of universities as mediators and catalysts for post-anthropocentric thinking, particularly in relation to the nature–culture divide.
By connecting theory, empirical research, and engagement beyond academia, PACA aims to contribute to the development of positive and actionable narratives for new forms of climate action and social organization.
An Open Space for Dialogue and Learning
PACA is committed to fostering dynamic knowledge ecologies. This means creating open spaces where academic knowledge, civic experience, and community engagement meet. Through dialogue and experimentation, the project seeks to generate insights that resonate beyond academia and contribute meaningfully to civil society.