In their talk, Leonie N. Bossert and Davina Höll explored the links between human-induced anthropogenic changes to the planet and their consequences, with a focus on pandemics. Drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of the planetary uncanny and Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island, they argued for a planetary health humanities that promotes global multispecies justice and challenges ‘Othering’ practices.
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