Environmental Humanities Seminar with Adewale Owoseni
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Spiriticide: Conceptualizing the Disruption of Intersubjective Human and Environmental Relations in Indigenous African Thought
Speaker: Adewale Owoseni, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow
Respondent: Agustin Lao-Montes, UMass Amherst
Adewale O. Owoseni is a scholar in the fields of African Philosophy and Environmental Humanities. His research outputs are propelled by the prevalent epistemic injustice aided bycolonial knowledge regimes that marginalize, repress or banish indigenous knowledge systems within the Global South (with specific emphasis on Africa), which are saturated with immense values for the vitalization of eco-justice in contemporary times. His current book project focuses on indigenous knowledge systems in Africa and the quest for Eco-Justice. This project examines the epistemological, metaphysical, ethical, political economy and the socio-cultural core of indigenous African knowledge systems (through narratives, storytelling and, myths among others) on the ecological entanglement of human-non-human interface, with the intent to discern alternative epistemic methods for engaging current environmental and ecological crisis. Adewale is a Faculty member of the University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria), where he also teaches courses in Philosophy. He holds a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the same University and was previously a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His recent articles have appeared in the Journal of African Cultural Studies (2024) and The Philosophical Forum (online, 2024)
Agustin Lao-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology & Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His fields of specialty include world-historical sociology and globalization, political sociology (especially social movements and the sociology of state and nationalism), social identities and social inequalities, sociology of race and ethnicity, urban sociology/community-university partnerships, African Diaspora and Latino Studies, sociology of culture and cultural studies, and contemporary theory and postcolonial critique.
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About the Series
The Mahindra Humanities Center presents an Environmental Humanities seminar series with our 2024-25 postdoctoral fellows.