New Publication: Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security
By “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) members Peter Dannenberg, Clemens Greiner, Michaela Haug, Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono and Thomas Widlok in collaboration with Boris Braun, Alexander Follmann, Markus Stetter and Stanislav Kopriva. Abstract Societal Impact Statement In the context of multiple crises, policymakers and practitioners prioritize the solving of certain challenges above others. In this context, supposedly purely […]
Research Initiative Sharing a Planet in Peril invited by DFG to submit a full proposal for a Cluster of Excellence
We are excited to announce that the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) has been invited by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to submit a full proposal for a Cluster of Excellence. Out of 143 preliminary proposals, only 41 projects were selected to submit a full proposal. Click here for the full press […]
Video: Kate Rigby featured in “Spotlight” Series by Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
This episode of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s “Spotlight” video-series features Kate Rigby, member of the research initiative “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP), Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne and director of MESH. In the episode, Prof. Rigby talks about her many contributions to environmental humanities […]
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:
MESH Research Fruits: Public Lecture with Frank Matose
MESH Research Fruits Lecture |The Violence of Conservation in Africa: Rethinking Alternatives Associate Prof. Frank Matose (University of Cape Town, South Africa) February 1, 2024 | 17.45 – 19.15 | online IN ORDER TO RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK – REGISTRATION REQUIRED:https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvfuGvpjsuHdA5zUdb9-MK8ePgorVsDJ1y In the lecture I draw upon our recent book in which we conceptualize violence in conservation […]
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 […]
MESH Research Fruits: Public Lecture with Pavan Malreddy
MESH Research Fruits Public Lecture | This Planet, These Waves, and My Suitcase: Ethics and Ecopoetics of Contemporary Migrant Literary Cultures PD Dr Pavan Kumar Malreddy (Goethe University Frankfurt) December 14, 2023 | 17.45 – 19.15 | Auerbach Bibliothek, Wienand Haus, Weyertal 59, 3. OGDue to the library’s seating capacity, please register until December 10 via e-mail: smaasse3uni-koeln.de This talk […]
Grow at Home, Buy Local: Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains in Northern Vietnam. Live stream of “Sharing a Planet in Peril” member Sandra Kurfürst’s Lecture at the University of Malaysia
Grow at Home, Buy Local: Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains in Northern Vietnam Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst. Sharing a Planet in Peril (SAPP) member Prof. Sandra Kurfürst will be featured in the fourth edition of this year’s “Sustainability Discourse”, organized by the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) of the National University of Malaysia […]
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 […]
