GSSC Seminar Series: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the EarthGSSC Seminar Series:
GSSC Seminar Series 6 June 2023 Work-in-Progress Seminar: Mastery and Misrecognition in the Anthropocene | Lessons from Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões on the Insurrection of the Earth Jonathan DeVore 12:00-13:00 This paper conceptualizes the misrecognition involved in claims about mastery over human and other nature in the Anthropocene, drawing comparative insight from one of […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Expanding the concept and practice of protected areas? A Brazilian take on convivial conservation
Henyo T. Barretto Filho (University of Brasília, Brazil) Abstract: The notion of convivial conservation emerged, among other issues, to overcome both the dichotomies constitutive of the naturalist ontology that impregnate much of conservationism and the capture of mainstream conservation by the neoliberal configuration. Given Brazil’s longstanding and complex historical experiences with indigenous lands, extractivist reserves […]
MESH Grassroots – Public Lecture: Building BRIDGES | Sustainability Science Coalition
MESH Grassroots Public Lecture: Building BRIDGES | Sustainability Science Coalition Professor Dr Steven Hartman (University of Iceland) and Professor Joni Adamson (Arizona State University) January 19, 2023 | 17.45 [5.45 pm] GMT+1 | via zoom To register and receive the zoom link for this event, please contact Claudia Veltman (claudia.veltman[at]uni-koeln.de) In this online public lecture, Professor Steven Hartman (University […]
GSSC Seminar Series: Book launch “Bosque Nativo”
GSSC Seminar Series 31 January 2023 Book launch “Bosque Nativo”. A collaborative writing project between science, art and a social movement for the protection of the last riparian ecosystems of the La Plata River, Argentina Vanina Santy (University of Cologne) 12:00-13:00 This book, published in December 2022 and funded by the GSSC, aims to articulate […]
Book Launch: Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation
Book Launch: Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation 19.10.2022 About the Book: This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South. Comprising contributions from lawyers from the Global South or who have experience in the Global […]
GSSC Focus – Panel discussion: Beyond the Great Impasse: Varied Perspectives on Aggravating Environmental Crises Despite Growing Awareness
At the height of the conflict around the village of Lützerath, this GSSC Focus event tackled the dilemma that global ecological crises aggravate despite a generally growing awareness that fundamental change is required and, notably, despite the political commitment and economic means to address these existential problems. The engaged debate between a group of concerned […]
GSSC: Focus Global South – Ethno-graphic Stories of Rivers, Climate and Change: A Discussion with Comic Artists from Around the WorldGSSC: Focus Global South –
Ethno-graphic Stories of Rivers, Climate and Change: A Discussion with Comic Artists from Around the World January 27, 2022, 6-8pm Cöln Comic Haus, Bonner Str. 9, 50677 Köln Artists from Senegal, Myanmar, Canada and Brazil are currently creating a comic with stories from river deltas in their countries, cooperating with a group of anthropologists from the University […]
GSSC Focus Gloabal South: Ausbeutung trotz Zertifizierung? – Erfahrungen aus dem Kakaosektor
Ausbeutung trotz Zertifizierung? – Erfahrungen aus dem Kakaosektor Vortrag: Friedel Hütz-Adams (SÜDWIND) Die Bezeichnungen „zertifizierter Kakao“ und „nachhaltiger Kakao“ werden oft synonym verwendet. Diese Gleichsetzung ist jedoch falsch. Zwar kann die Einführung einer Zertifizierung von Kakao dazu beitragen, den Weg der Kakaobohnen von der Plantage bis ins Supermarktregal transparent zu machen. Dadurch wird die Möglichkeit […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization
Painting the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism and Globalization Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll University of Birmingham Art practices in the Pacific islands complicate any neat classification as either craft, contemporary art or traditional ritual, individually or collectively authored. These binaries of commodification can be productively updated through global examples that are linked by […]
GSSC Public Lecture: Crisis Conservation -Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature
Crisis Conservation: Resource Extraction, Wildlife Crime and the Violent Frontiers of Saving Nature Bram Buscher Wageningen University In this presentation, I will discuss the impacts of the current surge in large-scale resource extraction and wildlife crime, and the conservation responses they elicit. Recent political ecology literature points at three reasons why this surge differs […]
