Gender&Space // Valeriia Lakrisenko: At the bottom of natures

In her video, Valeriia explores how hierarchical ideologies are linked to the cult of nature. They often justify policies of exclusion by appealing to a "natural order," where the definition and essentialization of natural phenomena are transformed into a tool for legitimizing the immutable hierarchical social structure of the world. This logic conceals an additional assumption: "nature is the same for everyone."

Drawing on the work of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn and his "ontological turn beyond the human," the video challenges the foundations on which hierarchical ideologies are built, demonstrating that such an understanding of the world contradicts contemporary anthropological knowledge. From this perspective, such a strategy is methodologically untenable. The ontological turn affirms the idea of ​​the simultaneous existence of multiple natures and ontologies in different cultures, demonstrating that what appears natural and uniquely possible is not the law of the world, but the result of specific social attitudes—and therefore subject to rethinking and change.