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Who owns the fungi: ethnography of mushroaming as a form of multispecies sociality

This dissertation thesis focuses on variations of “mushroaming” – it analyzes activities thatinvolve foraging, cultivating, and learning about mushrooms, and demonstrates their potentialfor extending theories and practices of commons (Bollier and Helfrich, 2021). The thesis drawsupon the concepts of commons that are not limited to economic governance, but enable also theanalysis of the potential of multispecies relations, affectivity, and responsibility for generatingnew approaches to the environment (Si…

Topics: Technology and society, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Žehnám veškeré Boží havěti

A book-length interview with entomologist and priest Matúš Kocian about interspecies coexistence, ecological ethics, and spirituality. Prague: Karmelitánské nakladatelství, 2023.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Other Publication

Znovu objevit Zemi

The 112th issue of the magazine Prostor, titled "Re-discovering the Earth," explores how to approach collaboration with other forms of life. This issue was edited by Lukáš Senft and brings together authors from various professions, including legends of the Czech ecological movement and representatives of the youngest generation. Contributors include professor Hana Librová, economist Naďa Johanisová, climatologist Alexander Ač, sociologist Tereza Stöckelová, as well as writers Pavla Horáková and Ivana…

Topics: Globalization, Climate Change, Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

A Forager’s Notebook: Invitation to Drift with(in) Tastes, Crops, and Landscapes

In October 2024, Lukáš Senft and Tereza Stöckelová from the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, along with Will LaFleur from the University of Helsinki, organized a workshop titled Foraging for Planetary Health: Exploring Multispecies Metabolism in a Postindustrial Landscape. The idea behind the workshop was to make standard production and distribution chains visible by bypassing them. We aimed to return to the roots of food preparation, learning to create meals and beverages without r…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Technology and society, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Nation (Un)masked: Imagined Immunities and Responsible Citizenship in a Postsocialist Pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic revealed a dramatic need for modes of solidarity and responsibility that take into account welfare of others and simultaneously stem from the recognition of global co-dependency and shared vulnerabilities. Using the concepts of ‘imagined immunity’ and ‘competing responsibilities’, this article examines the ways in which experiences, skills and discourses of the socialist past were mobilized during the first year of the pandemic in the Czech Republic in diverse, often contradictory…

Topics: Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut: Sensing, tasting and knowing with food

This article offers insights into eating practices, conceptualising and making of ‘good’ food by people living with chronic disease. Based on ethnographic research focussing on people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and undefined IBD) in the Czech Republic, we explore what it would mean to conceptualise disability from the non-normative gut. We trace the practices of tinkering with foods and one’s body, and ways of learning to sense (with) dysbiotic guts that people…

Topics: Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress

Drawing upon ethnographic research on human living and producing with fungi, and Haraway’s theorization of sympoiesis and the model ecosystems of mycorrhizae developed in current mycological research, we offer a concept of sympoietic growth. Sympoiesis is a concept that suggests a way of thinking about growth as a more-than-human process and provides an alternative political imaginary both to current forms of economic growth and to the idea of “degrowth.” We explore humanfungi co-operation in forests, an…

Topics: Economy, Sociology of Sciences, Environment

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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Who owns the fungi: ethnography of mushroaming as a form of multispecies sociality

Žehnám veškeré Boží havěti

Znovu objevit Zemi

A Forager’s Notebook: Invitation to Drift with(in) Tastes, Crops, and Landscapes

Nation (Un)masked: Imagined Immunities and Responsible Citizenship in a Postsocialist Pandemic.

Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut: Sensing, tasting and knowing with food

Sympoietic growth: living and producing with fungi in times of ecological distress

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