Reimagining Homo Ecopoliticus

This commentary reflects on the figure of Homo Ecopoliticus as it emerged during the November 2025 international colloquium Homo Ecopoliticus in Literary and Cultural Studies, organized by the editorial board of Ecokritike. Bringing together theoretical, literary, cultural, philosophical and empirical from Europe, North America, and Asia, the event foregrounded ecological subjectivity as a relational and contingent process rather than a fixed identity of ecological virtue. The commentary discusses contributions on Indigenous speculative fiction, solarpunk, climate fiction, posthuman citizenship, and environmental aesthetics, arguing that the colloquium collectively enacted a posthuman pedagogy grounded in listening, translation, and imagination. It suggests that Homo Ecopoliticus should be understood as an ongoing practice of attunement to human and more-than-human interdependence across terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments.