Research project Environmental research in the Human Sciences area
The aim of this new initiative is to develop a strong collaborative network on environmental issues between the three faculties which make up the Human Sciences Area at Stockholm University: Humanities, Law and Social Sciences.
The university realises that the human factors driving on-going global environmental change cannot be fully understood without a Human Sciences perspective. Underlying the alarming changes which receive so much publicity are socio-cultural practices, the economic systems in which we produce and consume resources, and the politico-legal structures which permit and prevent action around the world. The human sciences have a unique contribution to make towards understanding the diversity and history of these contributory factors, as well as towards analysing how necessary change can come about.
Project description
To advance the Human Sciences’ ability to fulfil this role, we have developed a forum to bring voices, ideas and research together in a dialogue that crosses the disciplinary boundaries in and around our area.
This is achieved through the following activities:
- Identify and develop joint research questions and projects
- Strengthen collaboration, internationalization and collaboration with various stakeholders
- To create structures and conditions that ensure the longterm viability of this effort
- Strengthening of research network
- Research school in the Environmental Humanities
- Initiate workshops and seminar series based on the collaboration efforts of post doctors within the project
- To spread knowledge of and interest in environmental projects within the field of Human sciences
In the long term, this action will facilitate more meaningful conversation between the Human and Natural Sciences, and furthermore it will strengthen Stockholm University’s connections at an international stage and with stakeholders outside the university environment.
Project members
Members
Karin Bäckstrand
Professor
Kerstin Lidén
Professor
Jonas Ebbesson
Professor i miljörätt
Anna Roosvall
Professor
Aysem Mert
Senior lecturer, Associate professor
Ewa Machotka
Professor
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius
Professor
Maria-Therese Gustafsson
Senior lecturer, Associate professor
Christina Fredengren
Forskare
Claudia Egerer
Associate Professor (Docent)
Karin Elisabet Dirke
Professor
Lisa Dellmuth
Professor
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Professor of History, especially Historical Geography
Eugene Costello
Researcher
Publications
More about this project
Available jobs as a postdoctoral fellow
The University of Stockholm announces two vacancies for the position as a postdoctoral fellow. This call is part of Stockholm University’s strategic inter-disciplinary initiative in environmental research in human science, which comprises environmental humanities, law and social science. Closing date: 2022-11-30.
Read more and apply for the position here:
Available jobs - Stockholms University
Euguene Costello nominerad till Pro Futura Scientia XVII
Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds styrelse har fattat beslut om att nominera Eugene Costello, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur, till Pro Futura Scientia XVII.
Eugenes forskningsprojekt heter ‘Sunny Uplands’? The Origins and Impacts of Commercial Livestock Husbandry in Europe’s Mountains.
Läs mer:
Nyheter Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur
Forskare utsedda till Pro Futura Scientia XVII
Eugene Costello tilldelas Pro Futura
World Academic Forum Stockholm Summit Seminar, May 19th 2022
Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University have formed the University Alliance Stockholm Trio. In this seminar Stockholm Trio will present how the three universities join forces and together mobilise for human and planetary health. With three examples as a starting-point, invited key stakeholders will participate in a panel discussion on how we can create strong partnerships for powerful actions for human and planetary health.
Read more: https://www.worldacademicforum.se/
Registration is mandatory, no later than 15th of May.
Nytt forskningscentrumet för Earth System Governance (ESG)
Stockholms Universitet är via Statsvetenskapliga institutionen det nya forskningscentrumet för Earth System Governance (ESG).
ESG är världens största tvärvetenskapliga forskningsnätverk för samhällsvetenskap, ekonomi, humaniora men även naturvetenskap. Nedan finns en video från webinariet om det kommande globala miljötoppmötet Stockholm+50 i juni 2022:
https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/
Nytt forskningscentrumet för Earth System Governance (ESG)
Stockholms Universitet är via Statsvetenskapliga institutionen det nya forskningscentrumet för Earth System Governance (ESG).
ESG är världens största tvärvetenskapliga forskningsnätverk för samhällsvetenskap, ekonomi, humaniora men även naturvetenskap. Nedan finns en video från webinariet om det kommande globala miljötoppmötet Stockholm+50 i juni 2022:
https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/
Nytt forskningscentrumet för Earth System Governance (ESG)
Earth System Governance
The Department of Political Science at Stockholm University will act as the new Research Centre on Earth System Governance (ESG) in Stockholm. ESG is the largest interdisciplinary network in the area of environmental research.
Earth System Governance
Environmental Research in the Human Sciences
The aim of this initiative is to develop a strong collaborative network on environmental issues between the three faculties which make up the Human Sciences Area at Stockholm University: Humanities, Law and Social Sciences.
Environmental Research in the Human Sciences
Hållbarhetsforum 2021
Följ årets digitala Hållbarhetsforum, på temat "Från kris till hållbar samhällsutveckling", torsdagen den 22 april kl 8.45-16-00. Flera forskare från Humanvetenskaplig miljöforsknings nätverk medverkar.
New article on environmental justice
New article on environmental justice
Why a 17% emissions drop does not mean we are addressing climate change
A commentary by Larissa Basso.
The article on The Conversation
Using narratives for strategic adaptation: lessons learned from COP21
In the midst of the current wave of climate protests under banners of Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, it is worthwhile to look back at past mobilizations of the climate movement, and to see what lessons can be learnt from them. Drawing on our recent study of the climate movement’s mobilization around COP21, published open access in the journal Theory and Society, we argue that today’s organizers would benefit from reflecting upon the use of shared stories about prior mobilizations when strategizing.
An article by Joost de Moor and Mattias Wahlström.
To the article
Climate action shouldn’t mean choosing between personal and political responsibility
We often treat the decisions to find alternative ways of living more sustainably and to pursue political resistance against big polluters and inactive governments as separate. But our recent research found that the relationship between alternatives and resistance is really far more complex. One can often lead to the other. But we also found that this doesn’t always happen and that bringing the two together can be difficult.
An article on climate action by Joost de Moor, Brian Doherty and Philip Catney.
Kan klimatflyktingen betraktas som flykting enligt FN:s flyktingkonvention?
Genom att använda sig av begreppet klimaträttvisa undersöker statsvetaren och juristen Francesca Rosignoli möjligheterna att inkludera klimatflyktingen i FN:s flyktingkonvention.
Till videon
Wasteocene. Guerrilla Narrative and the embodied stratigraphies of toxic capitalism
Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all of them in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, that is, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment?
Wasteocene. Guerrilla Narrative and the embodied stratigraphies of toxic capitalism