The CELCP seeks to produce and disseminate knowledge related to its four research axes. These axes are not exhaustive but examine how to imagine and theorize pluriversal planetary subjectivities:
- Planetarity and constructions of space and time: digital and planetary health commons, cosmo-ecologies, historical trajectories of planetary thinking, deep time and multi-temporalities of the planet’s anthropogenic and autonomous transformations, literary and artistic production of the planetary (as figured, for example, through competing climate narratives and imaginaries, and planetary genres), anthropogenic terrains.
- Planetary philosophies and cosmologies: Relationality and planetary subjectivities; the “(in)humanities” (Kathryn Yusoff) and the Blue humanities, ethics, new universalisms, bioconnectivities, commoning, anti-authoritarianism, (new) materialist geological and social planetary thought, queer planets, planetary sex and gender discourses.
- Planetary aesthetics: narrative, poetics, visual, multi- or cross-lingual configurations of planetary thinking (including global indigenous exchanges of language and knowledge production generated through figures of the planet), multi-species narratives, the planetary uncanny, dystopian and speculative fiction, outer space ecologies, astronomies, cosmograms and cosmographics, and astrologies.
- Competing and converging discourses of the planetary in multiple language contexts, focusing on anglophone and francophone literary and critical traditions: We examine the different historical, philosophical, and literary trajectories and cultural translations of planetary thought as they, for example, issue from postcolonial, feminist and queer, and decolonial studies, on the one hand, and from Anthropocene studies, concepts and practices of alter-mondialisation, environmental anthropology and philosophy, one the other hand.