Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Jyväskylä. He has previously worked at the Universities of Helsinki and Tampere in Finland, and held visiting positions at Oxford University, Cornell University, Università degli studi di Verona, and Bard College.
He is the author of several essays on political and democratic theory, resilience, and post-truth politics. Most recently, his work has focused on the political repercussions of the ecological crisis through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s political theory, e.g. in the articles “The Plural Planet: A Democratic Culture of Earthlings” (The Review of Politics, 2024), “Labor as Action: the Human Condition in the Anthropocene” (Research in Phenomenology, 2020), and “Amor Tellus: For a Material Culture of Care“ (HannahArendt.net, 2021). Expanding on these publications, he is currently finalizing a book manuscript tentatively entitled The Planetary Condition: Engaging Arendt’s Political Thought in the Ecological Crisis. For more information, see www.aehyvonen.com.