Feminist ecologies
 

Feminist ecologies formulate responses to ecological problems – climate change and species extinction – that are rooted in feminist and queer theories and practices. It re-imagines future ontologies and politics by recognizing the enmeshed reality of our always political multispecies ecologies, and the never pure nature-cultural landscapes that we inhabit. I’m particularly interested in how notions such as nature, nation, race/ethnicity, and gender realign in times of political and environmental transformation.

I developed my plant and ecological projects during postdoctoral fellowships at the research programme The Seed Box: Environmental Humanities Collaboratory at Linköping University, Sweden (2015-2017) and at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Turku, Finland (2019-2022). 

Watch my lecture on Environmental Exposures. 

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• Publications

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Forest philosophy​

Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest. Journal of Gender Studies, special issue 'Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics', edited by Kathrin Thiele and Christine Quinan, 29.1, (2020), DOI 10.1080/09589236.2019.1691981

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Postdoctoral project 'The future of the forest: Engendering environmental politics in the Białowieża Forest, Poland' at the TIAS Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Finland.

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Plantarium​​

Monika Rogowska-Stangret and Olga Cielemęcka. “Traces ’We’ Leave Behind:  Toward the Feminist Practice of Stig(e)merging.” Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment, vol.11, no.2, 2020, pp. 178-186.​

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'Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies'. Edited by Marianna Szczygielska & Olga Cielemęcka. Special section of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5.2, (2019). With our introduction, 'Plantarium', and an interview with Professor Catriona Sandilands, titled 'Thinking the Feminist Vegetal Turn in the Shadow of Douglas-Firs'.

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Vegetal Ecologies by Olga Cielemecka and Marianna Szczygielska. In New Materialist Almanac, eds. Sam Skinner and David Gauthier (2017).

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Toxic Embodiment​

​Toxic Embodiment. Edited by Olga Cielemęcka and Cecilia Åsberg, Special issue of Environmental Humanities 11.1 (May 2019).

With our Introduction: Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities​

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Sustainability

• 'Posthuman Sustainability: An Anti-anthropocentric Ethos for our Anthropocenic Future,' Olga Cielemecka & Christine Daigle. Theory, Culture, and Society, (24 September, 2019). We also wrote a short piece on 'Posthuman Sustainability' for the Genealogy of the Posthuman (2018).

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• Past events

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I joined the Helsinki Environmental Humanities Hub seminar on Zoom to talk about my forest project. November 10, 2020, at 2pm.

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'Plantarium: Re-Imagining Green Futurities' was a workshop I organised with a brilliant researcher and a dear friend, Marianna Szczygielska. With keynote lectures by Professors Catriona Sandilands (York University, Canada) and Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country). The workshop was funded from a grant from The Seed Box: EH Collaboratory. Linköping University, Sweden (June 1–2, 2017).

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I had the great pleasure to be part of a panel discussion at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden: All of Our Body - a discussion. 9 October 2020, at 6:00 pm,

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