Post-Human Relationality: Protecting Wolves in a Human-Dominated Europe

After centuries of deliberate extermination, wolves gradually re-established their populations across Europe, even in landscapes significantly altered by people. While environmentalists have welcomed their comeback, farmers and hunters often oppose it, leading to intense political debates. Using results from ecological and social studies, the talk will highlight the factors driving successful campaigns for wolf protection, methods for sustaining human-wolf coexistence, and the ways in which wolves have adapted to living near people in Central Europe. The talk will also reflect on Dr Robert Mysłajek’s engagement with policy-makers at the national level in Poland and the EU level outlining the opportunities and challenges regarding the human-animal coexistence.

FRINGE Centre Relationality Seminar Series

Planetary relationality is gaining a prominent place in Social Science discussions. The traditionally anthropocentric framing of global politics is challenged by a shift toward planetary politics, which sees politics as a much broader field encompassing the totality of relations among humans, animals, landscapes, environment, AI, and more. The FRINGE Centre Relationality Seminar Series aims to explore the interdisciplinary approach to planetary relationality analysing the variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives within the SSEES region and beyond. Held across terms 1 and 2, the seminars will feature talks by scholars working on different aspects of relationality from diverse disciplines, each contributing unique insights into relationality and deepening our understanding of planetary politics.