PEAK-Expert
Oliwia Murawska
Focus
CLIMATE CHANGE, ANTHROPOCENE, ECO-AFFECTS AND POSTHUMANISM
Contact
Mail:
Oliwia.Murawska@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 512 507 43356
Web:
Personal Website
Languages: German, English, Polish
Oliwia Murawska is an ethnographer and European ethnologist. She specialises in the Anthropocene, the ‘age of man’, and posthumanism, a relatively new school of thought that questions traditional conceptions of what it means to be human. The ethnographer is particularly interested in ways of experiencing and perceiving the anthropogenic climate change, human-animal and human-environment relationships, anthropology of art as well as the study of attunement. Her habilitation project is dedicated to Kashubia (Poland) from a posthumanist perspective focusing on environmental transformations.
Focus-Cloud: anthropocene, anthropogenic climate change, human-environment and human-animal relations, injured and contaminated matter (animals, tipping lakes, sand), posthumanism, anthropology of art, eco-affects and -emotions
About
Oliwia Murawska holds a doctorate in European Ethnology, Economic Policy and English Philology from the University of Münster. She has been a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck since 2020. She has published articles such as “Eerily Beautiful Weather. Being Attuned in the Anthropocene” in the volume “Eco-Anxiety - Zukunftsangst und Klimawandel” (Waxmann, 2021) or “Meat? A Question of Attunement” in the volume ”Fleischwissen. Zur Verdinglichung des Lebendigen in globalisierten Märkten” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024). Together with Torsten Cress and Annika Schlitte, she has published the book “Posthuman? Perspectives on Nature/Culture” (Brill, 2023, in German).