Video: SAPP Member Ruth Hall on the Dynamics of Land Use
Prof. Ruth Hall, member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) joined South African broadcast company SABC News to disucss the dynamics of land use. Find the full video below:
Publication by SAPP Member Michael Bollig Among Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
“Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern Africa: Commodifying the ‘Wild’”, edited by Sharing a Planet in Peril (SAPP) member Michael Bollig in collaboration with Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane and Romie Nghitevelekwa (University of Namibia & CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa Project A04 Future Conservation) is part of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 list. The list […]
GSSC Focus Global South: „Decoloniality and Scientific Freedom: Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?”
Fishbowl discussion: „Decoloniality and Academic Freedom: Cancel Culture or Rightward Shift at German Universities?” The decolonization of knowledge production is at the heart of the SAPP initiative. However, the call for decoloniality in academia also spurs heated debates about academic freedom that appear to mirror larger societal discourses regarding cancel culture and the freedom of […]
Publication: Making Heterogeneous Infrastructure Futures In And Beyond The Global South
This article is co-authored by fourteen researchers, among them Sharing a Planet in Peril (SAPP) members Peter Dannenberg, Clemens Greiner and Javier Revilla Diez. Abstract Infrastructure has never been a single thing, understood in a universal way. Yet, there has long been a broad overarching orthodox approach in which ‘experts’ create replicable, stable, large, networked […]
Four SAPP Members featured in project mapping of “Bridges: a humanities-led UNESCO coalition for sustainability”
BRIDGES is a global sustainability science coalition organized within UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST). As a humanities-led coalition that is not limited to the humanities, BRIDGES promotes transformative collaborations across academic domains of the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences in partnership with diverse communities. In June 2023 the BRIDGES Coalition began […]
Publication: Environmental Anthropology by Michael Bollig and Franz Krause
Environmental Anthropology – By Michael Bollig and Franz Krause Michael Bollig is the speaker of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and member of the reseatrch initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril”. Franz Krause is also a member of the GSSC and is the director of the “Delta” research project that looks at how global […]
GSSC Excursion – Rhenish Lignite Mining Area
This excursion took international guests of the GSSC into a hotspot of environmental conflict in Germany, the lignite mining area just at Cologne’s doorstep. Due to the extension of various mines and the attendant destruction and resettlement of villages – despite the state’s proclaimed “energy turn” – the area has become a focal point for […]
Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby
Publication: Religion, Materialism and Ecology Co-Edited By SAPP Member Kate Rigby “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Kate Rigby one of the co-editors of a recently published book entitled “Religion, Materialism and Ecology” that is part of the Routledge “Environmental Humanities” book series that covers anything “from microplastics in the sea to hyper-trends”. Description This timely […]
