Katherine Swancutt
Cosmological Visionaries COSMOVIS
Phlexible Philosophy - A space between armchair and academic philosophy.
Cosmological Visionaries is a 6-year project funded by the European Research Council Synergy Grant scheme (grant agreement number 856543, acronym COSMOVIS). It is comprised of two synergistically mirrored teams, the China Team led by Katherine Swancutt , Project Lead and Principle Investigator at King’s College London, and the Russia Team led by Olga Ulturgasheva , Principle Investigator at the University of Manchester. Tony Milligan, our Research Fellow based at King's College London, is a member of both t
Cosmological Visionaries explores what global environmental initiatives of the future will look like and sets forth two key research questions: (1) How can scientists, shamans, priests, and other indigenous holders of animistic knowledge collaborate in regions of climatic vulnerability and (2) What are the geopolitics of climate change and the policies that surround it? Starting from the position that cosmology often evokes religious ways of knowing or being, the project brings together anthropologists, eth
Katherine Swancutt is researching ‘Ethnological and Priestly Visions of Environmental Science and Animistic Forestry Rites’. She is documenting ecological initiatives and new animistic rituals for forestry protection across the Liangshan mountains of Southwest China, working closely with Nuosu priests, shamans, ethnologists, rural villagers, and natural scientists. To jointly explore the possibility of sourcing new visions to address climate change, she is bringing Nuosu religious specialists, ethnologists,
Katherine Swancutt
Cosmological Visionaries COSMOVIS
Phlexible Philosophy - A space between armchair and academic philosophy.