The UP Department of Geography through the Environment and Development Geographies (EDGE) research group, and the Geography 301 (Environmental Geography) graduate course present Dr Casper Bruun Jensen of Chulalongkorn University.
His talk More-than-Human Worlds: Anthropocene Geographies beyond the Human happens on Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 5:30PM in the Geography Conference Room of Pavilion 2 Building of the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
The lecture is open to the public.
Abstract
Over the last decades – and especially in the last decade – many social sciences have become more and more interested in nonhumans. The shift is quite dramatic. Where critical social science used to orient primarily, or exclusively, to social, cultural, economic and political relations (analyzed variably with repertoires from Marxism to postmodernism), the disciplines are now populated with actor-networks, assemblages, material-semiotic relations, new materialism, vibrant matter and object-oriented ontologies.
In this lecture, I trace two histories of these developments. The first is conceptual, from early science and technology studies, where actor-network theory became (in)famous for its symmetrical treatment of human and nonhuman agency while cyborg analyses emerged from feminist technoscience studies. The second is empirical, as the acceleration of planetary environmental trajectories have forced social science to reckon with earthly powers beyond the human. Throughout, my own research Cambodian environmental infrastructures and urban transformations in Bangkok provide illustration of what it can mean to think geographies beyond the human, and what the implications—conceptual and political—might be.
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