Ida Raunkjær

Research areas

My name is Ida Raunkjær, and I'm a doctoral student (supervised by Professor Søren Askegaard) within the interdisciplinary climate research project, PACA (Mobilizing Post-Anthropocentric Climate Action).

In my research, I examine how environmental organisations utilise post-anthropocentric narratives on nature in order to mobilise people for climate action. As an anthropologist by training, I’m experienced in conducting ethnographic fieldwork, where I observe and participate in the life-worlds of groups and individuals for an extended period of time. This (along with a range of other qualitative methods) forms a broad foundation for a thorough and deep understanding and subsequent analysis of how these people make sense of particular contexts and relate to their surroundings and to one-another, human and more-than-human-species. Furthermore, my job is to represent the links and networks between these particular organisms.

Theoretically, my research is oriented towards post-anthropocentrism, eco-feminism, critiques of nature-culture dichotomies, degrowth and ecological economics, and the concept of nature as a setting for consumption.