Lisa Doeland is postdoctoral researcher on the NWO funded project The Existential Dimensions of Planetary Health (ECoPH). She is an ecophilosopher with an eye for the dark, the weird and the spectral. In her figuring the ecological crisis she draws on uncanny modes of thinking such as deconstructive thought, psychoanalysis and critical theory.
For the ECoPH project she critically engages with the emerging field of planetary health and asks: what do we talk about when we talk about the planetary? How do we define health and who’s health do we take into account? Can we, perhaps, shed our anthropocentric feathers and come to a (dark)eco-centric take on planetary health that includes not just bodily and ecological, but also existential and spiritual dimensions?
In her PhD she explored the myriad ways in which we are haunted by waste and suggest that an embodied critical philosophy can help us make sense of the polluted and exhausted situation in which we find ourselves, while also raising questions about what we (also) are to others: food, or those to feed from.
Doeland is a member of the editorial board of Wijsgerig Perspectief and Amsterdam based philosophical café Felix & Sofie.
