Philipp Jacobi

I hold a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Witten/Herdecke and an M.A. in Political Theory from Goethe-University Frankfurt. During my masters I was a student assistant at the „Normative Orders“. I also went to Paris for an Erasmus in sociology at the EHESS. My master thesis was about how the readings of Bruno Latour could be made fruitful to the discussions at the research group on post-growth at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. My current research interests include STS, political economy, indigenous knowledge, degrowth and human-animal studies.  

The biodiversity crisis is pushing sociology to examine current relationships to other species and explore how they might be improved. My doctoral project tries to learn about conflicting „futures of sustainability“ from a less anthropocentric point of view. This is done on the grounds of a more-than-human ethnography in the North of Sweden, also known as Sápmi. The region is, amongst others, home of the Sámi, the only indigenous people in Europe. At the same time, it is also a treasure chamber filled with resources for the European green deal. What is there to learn if one studies the emerging land-use conflicts by paying attention to other-than-human species?