Dr. Carolina S谩nchez De Jaegher is an scholar based in the Netherlands; she moves between world-making practices, culture, and political fields, exploring openings for justice from decolonial and non-decolonial approaches which includes Indigenous worlds and non-represented knowledges in the academic curriculum. Particularly, her work is positioned at the intersection of epistemic justice, the environment, and imaginaries for law in the 21st century. She earned her PhD in Philosophy of Law and Governance from UCLouvain in 2023.
Currently based at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) and Pathways to Sustainability, Carolina embraces interdisciplinary approaches in the pluriverse and the limits of every knowledge. For over two decades, she has been weaving pedagogies that bridge higher education, intergenerational knowledge, and Earth-centered philosophies鈥攃onsistently centering dignity, territory, and memory in her work, addressing silences and injustices in the academic curriculum.
She is a leading researcher behind Conceptualizing Ecocide, a transdisciplinary initiative uniting scholars and practitioners across legal, ecological, scientific, sociocultural, and philosophical fields. The project challenges us to understand ecocide not merely as an environmental crime, but as a rupture in relational existence鈥攃alling for legal, ontological, and political frameworks that move beyond state-centered paradigms.
In 2024, Carolina contributes to Tackling Gender Inequality and Sustainability in Agribusiness, a Signature Project examining the cut flower export industry between Colombia and the Netherlands. Focusing on pesticide use and labor precarity, the research highlights how environmental degradation and gendered vulnerabilities are embedded in global value chains, viewed through the lens of performance philosophy and artistic pedagogies.
From 2025 to 2027, she will serve as a core researcher in Reimagining Constitutional Ecology in Europe, a project confronting the silences imposed by modernity and acknowledging Europe鈥檚 own decolonial transformations, processes from which universities can no longer remain detached.
Carolina is deeply engaged in academic and civil society networks, where she actively works to connect universities with the wider world. She is a frequent keynote speaker, curator, and collaborator, and a founding member of Feral Ecologies, REDEMPI (Indigenous Studies in Europe), and RERI (Latin American Network on Indigenous Philosophy and Heritage).
At the heart of her work lies a powerful and urgent question:
What does justice look like when we begin from the Earth, not the state?
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