On Monday, 18/06 (10:15, room 107a), Michaela Meurer will give brief insights into differences of institutions and regulations in the management of natural resources in a Brazilian conservation area. Her presentation “Zur (Ohn-)Macht von Nicht-Menschen im Umweltschutz. Potentiale und Grenzen von Ansätzen politischer Ontologie” will be in German language.
Michaela Meurer currently works at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Marburg. Her presentation is based on ethnographic data that she collected during her fieldwork in the Extractive Reserve Tapajós-Arapiuns, Pará, Brazil between 2013 and 2016. Together with the lab participants she wants to discuss whether approaches of political ontology (Blaser, Escobar) or ontological politics (Mol) are helpful to interpret the case study, or if we need to combine these perspectives.