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Carl Pierer

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University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies

Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales

"My research focuses on how ecological crises, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, challenge our political concepts. In particular, my PhD explores the concept of work in the Anthropocene. In order to understand how this key concept of Western political thought can be transformed to arrive at a broader understanding of what is political, I trace an environmental history of political thought around the problem of work. In particular, Marxist feminist critiques of (productive) labour and efforts to valorise undervalued and hidden (reproductive) labour are highly relevant to my research.

More broadly, I am interested in the links between twentieth-century political thought, critical theory, feminisms and environmental crises."

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