Publications | Lena Schlegel

Collaborative Essay: Multispecies Grief in the Wake of Megafires

Shared digital article exploring more-than-human loss and shared grief in the wake of devastating wildfires like the Australian 'Black Summer'

1. Juni 2023

New Paper: The Role of Emotions for Climate (In)Action

How do emotions affect how we navigate the climate crisis? My open-acess paper in Geographica Helvetica explores the engaging and disengaging effects of emotions on climate action

5. Okt. 2022

New Article: Anthropocentrism in Crisis

In our new article, we argue that anthropocentric perspectives are not sufficient to address socio-ecological crises because they themselves are part of a crisis-ridden system of environment-society relations. Hence, merely expanding the moral-philosophical concept of anthropocentrism is problematic. We suggest that a non-anthropocentric, intersectional perspectives offer a more nuanced account of problematic nature-society relations and their transformation. https://www.inge

31. März 2021

Journal Articles

Sensoriographic Sensibilities: Immersing, Recording and Storying the Senses in More-than-Human Worlds, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 17(2), 2026 (with Maya Hey, Sasha Gora, Sevgi Sirakova Mutlu, Penelope Volinia and Philine Schiller). https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.1.5905.
Between Climates of Fear and Blind Optimism: The Affective Role of Emotions for Climate (in)action, Geographica Helvetica, 77, 2022: 421-431. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-421-2022.
Anthropozentrismus (in) der Krise: Warum Probleme nicht mit der Denkweise gelöst werden können, die sie auch hervorgerufen hat [Anthropocentrism in crisis. Why problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them], GAIA 31(1), 2022, 14-18 (with Leonie Bossert). https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.1.5.
Mit Umweltethik gegen Pandemien: Warum Tierrechte und Naturschutz auch den Menschen nutzen [Environmental ethics on pandemics: why even humans can benefit from animal rights and nature conservation], GAIA, 30(2), 2021: 77-81 (with Leonie Bossert). https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.2.4.

Book Chapters

Photography as an Art of Noticing: Atmospheres of Loss and Care in Australia’s Black Summer, Atmospheric Care: Ecologies of Support from the Ground Up, edited by Tomás Criado, Elisabeth Luggauer, and Emma Garnett. Bristol University Press: Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS (accepted).
Another world was possible: How sociological imagination could have helped solve the climate crisis, The 2051 Munich Climate Conference: Future Visions of Climate Change, edited by B. Heisel, T. Spielmann, A. Wehrl, and C. Wehrl. Transcript: Neue Ökologie, 2022: 18-25.

Academic Blogs

Multispecies Grief in the Wake of Megafires, Edge Effects (with Nathaniel Otjen, Shannon Lambert, Hannah be la Bosca and Blanche Verlie), 2023.
Covid-19: A care-ethical perspetive, BedenkZeiten, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, 15.04.2020.
Coronavirus and Human-Nature Relations: A plea, why we must change our relationship with nature, BedenkZeiten, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, 11.04.2020.

Creative Work

Von Pfützen und Feuern: Das Anthropozän aus der Froschperspektive [Of Puddles and Fires: A Frog's Eye Perspective of the Anthropocene], WaldZukunft: Geschichten über Krise, Wandel und Hoffnung [ForestFuture: Stories about Crisis, Change and Hope], edited by J. Schumacher, C. Klapperich and A. Brietzke. Edition assemblage (accepted).
Thinking with Leaves: Poetic Resonances with Nocturnal Creatures, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 17(2), 2026. https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.2.6097.
Photography as an 'art of noticing' climate loss in more-than-human relationships of care, SEI Magazine 7, Sydney Environment Institute, Sydney, 2023: 16-21.