Olga Cielemecka
Postdoctoral researcher
Gender Studies/Turku Institute for Advanced Studies olga.cielemecka@utu.fi Office: E110 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8022-7971 |
Gender studies; Philosophy; Environmental humanities; Posthumanities; Critical plant studies
Trained as a philosopher, I work at the intersection of gender studies, feminist philosophy, and environmental humanities. I write about contemporary environmental challenges in broader political, ethical, and multispecies contexts. I hold a PhD in philosophy from University of Warsaw in Poland. My research took me, among other places, to the University of Alberta in Canada, where I was a research assistant at Wirth Institute in 2013/14, and to Linköping University in Sweden, where, in 2015-2017, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the research programme "The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory," at the Unit of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies. For four years, I was also a member of a COST Action research network "New Materialism: Networking the European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’" and co-chair a working group on "New Materialisms: Tackling Economical and Identity-Political Crises and Organizational Experiments," which links scholars invested in an attempt to revitalize socially critical concepts through new materialist tools and methods.
My research project, “The future of the
forest: Engendering environmental politics in the Białowieża Forest,
Poland,” focuses on the primeval Białowieża Forest, an ecologically unique location
of great global and European nature conservation value. I explore
the points of intersection between nature, nation, gender, climate change, and future. Mobilizing environmental humanities and feminist environmental
perspectives, I ask why certain ecologies are considered worth protecting and
preserving, while others are not, and how environmental politics intersect with
multiple axes of power operating along the lines of gender, class, ethnicity,
nationhood, and species. I look into these questions through a lens of the
relationships and interdependencies between humans and forests that complicate the
existing conceptual framework which charts environmental issues and account for inseparability of culture and nature and the complexity of contemporary
“politics of nature.”
- Evolution of European bison image and its implications for current species conservation (2023)
- PLoS ONE
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Connectivity in times of control: writing/undoing/unpacking/acting out power performances. (2020)
- Feminist Theory
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest (2020)
- Journal of Gender Studies
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - “Traces ’We’ Leave Behind: Toward the Feminist Practice of Stig(e)merging.” (2020)
- Ecozon@
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies (Introduction) (2019)
- Catalyst
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Posthuman Sustainability: An Ethos for our Anthropocenic Future (2019)
- Theory, Culture and Society
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Thinking the Feminist Vegetal Turn in the Shadow of Douglas-firs: An Interview with Catriona Sandilands (2019)
- Catalyst
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities (Introduction) (2019)
- Environmental Humanities
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1))