@chrislange
just a human and anthropologist trying to understand the bigger picture. Currently working at the research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) at UoC: https://mesh.uni-koeln.de
🔍 BRIDGES Cologne Policy Insights launched! 🚀
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Edition #1 explores the hidden co-benefits of infrastructure in renewable energy projects—shaping communities beyond just power.
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our first spotlight is "Climate Change Literacy", a project exploring how novels can reshape climate communication by fostering empathy, critical thinking, & a deeper understanding. 📖
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abstract reads: Collective social and political imaginaries of energy transitions are underpinned by a particular temporality of linear, teleological paths of progress and modernity, conjuring an abstract future. But what happens when the future is suddenly here? Drawing on sociological and related literatures on ruination and decay, this article offers insights into how different actors respond when they find the temporalities through which they understand the world disrupted. Using empirical insights from the coal phase out process in Alberta, Canada, I analyse how different actors navigate temporal disorder and seek to re-instate temporal order. In doing so, I argue that the temporal is political, offering a novel lens for examining the power dynamics entangled in the phase out of fossil fuels.
New article! #OpenAcess
A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out by Bregje van Veelen.
This article brings sociological literature on ruination to bear on the political processes of fossil fuel phase out.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Small infographic depicting a warming planet earth, a dead tree and soil erosion.
DYK there is a connection between #ClimateChange and #LandDegradation? 🤔
It is vital to address the climate and #biodiversity crises simultaneously. 🌏🧪
Read the @IPBES Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration: t.co/EMdQZyPojk