Czy człowiek występujący w obronie przyrody przed drugim człowiekiem to Nestbeschmutzer? Wokół powieści Olgi Tokarczuk Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych
Is a Person Defending Nature against Another Person a Nestbeschmutzer? On the Novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at exploring the issue of Nestbeschmutzung (fouling one’s own nest) in the context of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead written by Olga Tokarczuk. The national discussion which arose around Tokarczuk’s novel and later around its film adaptation Spoor directed by Agnieszka Holland can serve as a pretext for asking several important questions: should those who break an alliance with their own species in the name of protecting the interests of non-human nature be called Nestbeschmutzers? Why is the questioning of the God-given right to subdue the Earth and have dominion over all creation still met with fervent backlash? What forms of exclusion are introduced against those undermining the anthropocentric status quo? A reference to the current fight for Białowieża Forest will also be made in order to demonstrate the universality of the language and arguments in favor of depreciating ecological ideas.

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