Focus on: Environmental Humanities

The climate crisis is not only a scientific and technological, but also an epistemological, political and societal challenge which calls for new and innovative forms of collaboration between academic disciplines. The CNR cooperates with transcent, Wuppertal’s Center for Transformation Research and Sustainability, using the tools provided by narrative research to promote the environmental humanities.

As part of our research and teaching activities in the field of environmental humanities, we are also exploring the "more-than-human turn". Broadly speaking, this includes the fields of ecocriticism, human-animal studies, new materialism, material ecocriticism, and critical plant studies. We are particularly interested in the potential of narratives and story-telling to foster non-anthropocentric world views, and in the ways in which narratives contribute to shaping our possible futures.