05.05.2026

CoF Lecture mit Prof. Amaya Querejazu

6. Mai | 18:30 Uhr Villa Köstlin
"On Natures and Pluriversalities"

This presentation situates “nature” within the urgent conversation on peace with nature, arguing that dominant environmental governance frameworks — rooted in anthropocentrism and Eurocentric epistemologies — are structurally insufficient to address contemporary ecological crises. Moving beyond the idea of peace as a managerial balance between humans and a passive environment, the paper advances a pluriversal approach grounded in relational ontologies, where multiple worlds and forms of life co-constitute what “nature” is. It proposes pluriversality as methodology to open knowledge production toward epistemic and ontological plurality, and develops the concept of cosmopraxis to foreground embodied, more-than-human practices of relating and knowing. Engaging with socioenvironmental conflicts as inherently ontological, the research is based on the argument that peace with nature is not a universal goal but a situated and ongoing practice, expressed through pluriversal diplomacies that challenge state-centrism and incorporate Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and everyday practices. Ultimately, achieving peace with nature requires a reorientation toward relational ethics, where the plurality of natures is engaged through coexistence rather than reduced to unity.
Bio

Prof. Amaya Querejazu is a Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. As a Global Encounters guest and member of the Focus Group "Making Peace with Nature" at the College of Fellows, she brings a distinctive perspective to the ongoing conversation on human-nature relations. An exceptional scholar, her work in the fields of decolonial thought and relational ontologies has gained well-deserved recognition in leading academic forums.

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