Anthropological opening to post-anthropocentrism. The agency of non-human beings in the process of ecologisation of knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.12775/lud105.2021.10Keywords
anthropocene, ecologisation of knowledge, Capitalocene, post-anthropocentrism, agency, more-than-social worldAbstract
The article focuses on the opening of anthropology to post-anthropocentrism, and the more-than-human world. We are living in the Anthropocene, a new geological era in which human activities are affecting climate, ecosystems and the environment like never before. However, the dominant understanding of the global environmental history does not adequately account for its connections to social theory, even though these themes are inextricably linked to the sociality and materiality of the changing world of humans and non-humans. Within the framework of the world's socio-cultural anthropology are being developed, and the representatives of the discipline are taking increasingly firm stances on climate change, developing practices that creatively can be called the ‘ecologisation of anthropology’ as a response to the notion that the world is overheated. A movement of conceptual transgression of the category ‘human’, which is the core of anthropocentric knowledge, can become an opportunity for anthropology not only to prognose the future of societies, but also to co-produce scientific knowledge anticipating and explaining its shapes.
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