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In Common explores the connections between humans, their environment and each other through stories told by scholars and practitioners. In-depth interviews and methods webinars explore interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work on commons governance, conservation and development, social-ecological resilience, and sustainability.
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Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Michael and Courtney interviewed Nicola Ulibarri, an assistant professor in the department of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Irvine. We talked about Nicola's work on collaborative governance and water management plans in the Central valley of California, where Nicola has been studying the ability of a variety of such plans to address climate change and social equity. We also highlighted one of the best figures we've seen depicting a groundwater-based social-ecological system! This is from the first reference listed below.
Nicola's website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ulibarri/
References mentioned:
Ulibarri, Nicola, and Nataly Escobedo Garcia. 2020. “Comparing Complexity in Watershed Governance: The Case of California.” WATER 12 (3): 766.
Ulibarri, Nicola, Nataly Escobedo Garcia, Rebecca L. Nelson, Amanda E. Cravens, and Ryan J. McCarty. 2021. “Assessing the Feasibility of Managed Aquifer Recharge in California.” Water Resources Research 57 (3).
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
In this episode, Michael is joined by a new co-host of the podcast, Divya Gupta, to interview Forrest Fleischman, their friend and colleague currently working as a professor of forest resources at the University of Minnesota. Forrest talked to Michael and Divya about the two years he spent in India studying forest governance, his examination of joint forest management programs there, and his discovery that such projects seem to have often focused more on simplified metrics around tree planting and plantations than engaging with local communities. He also discussed his empirical examination of the policy known as forest landscape restoration, a supposedly transformative approach that generates win-wins for all involved. Forrest has become an important voice in this space, raising doubts about the ability of projects oriented primarily around tree plantings to solve local to global environmental issues.
Forrest's website: https://forestry.umn.edu/people/forrest-fleischman
References:
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Maria Claudia Lopez and Frank van Laerhoven are speaking with Beril Ocaklı.
Beril co-authored a recent contribution to the International Journal of the Commons titled ‘Shades of Conflict in Kyrgyzstan: National Actor Perceptions and Behaviour in Mining’ with her colleagues Tobias Krueger and Jörg Niewöhner.
The episode starts with the proper pronunciation of Beril’s name, and wraps up with reflections on the importance of diversity in approaching the commons and commons scholarship. In between, the discussion gears around the article – the prequel, its message, and the sequel.
Beril Ocaklı is a doctoral researcher at IRI THESys. She holds a BA in International Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest (2006) and a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) (2007). She has a track record of leading international transdisciplinary cooperation projects on behalf of the German Federal Government, EU and other multinational organizations in resource governance in Eurasia.
- To find more details on Beril and her work, her profile page at IRI THESys is a good place to start;
- To get a taste of some of Beril’s unsalted opinions we suggest you look her up on Twitter;
- To hear Beril talk some more about the topic of gold mining in Kyrgyzstan go to The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT) Podcast Talk March 2021 and the Voices on Central Asia for her recent interview on politics of gold mining.
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Stefan Partelow speaks with Elke Kellner and Andreas Thiel on topics related to polycentricity, linked to the upcoming International Association for the Study of the Commons virtual conference on Polycentricity May 17-19, 2021. You can find more information about the conference and other IASC events on their website iasc-commons.org/.
Polycentricity conference:
https://2021polycentricity.iasc-commons.org/
Elke Kellner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland.
https://www.wsl.ch/en/employees/kellner.html
Andreas Thiel is a professor of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance at the University of Kassel in Germany.
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
In today’s episode, Courtney and Stefan are speaking with Kimberley Peters.
Kim is a Professor Marine Governance at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), a research organisation in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and University of Oldenburg (UOL), in Germany.
As a human geographer, she is interested in the social, cultural and political workings of the world around us. Her research group seeks to explore how governance does not just happen anywhere, but somewhere, and is shaped by spatial processes. Her work investigates how the geography of what we seek to govern, or do govern, is shaped by location, the character and qualities of place and relations with surrounding spaces.
In the episode, she reflects on how geography has dealt with and is influenced by its historical legacy, and how much of the current perspectives in human geography are critical because of that history. We also discuss her relationship to teaching and her students, working in an interdisciplinary institute, leaving your disciplinary comfort zone, and the research topics she is currently pursuing.
Kim has provided a list of references below regarding the history of geography for further information, as she notes that her perspectives are only one of many and not fully comprehensive. She encourages listeners to read the pieces below:
For a good overview of the history and 'turns' of geography see: Cresswell T (2013) Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford
On geography's relation with colonial and imperial practice: Driver F (1993) Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford.
On geography's relation with 20th Century German geopolitics: Klinke, I., & Bassin, M. (2018). Introduction: Lebensraum and its discontents. Journal of Historical Geography, 61, 53-58.
On closing Geography departments: Sacks B (2015) What happened to the American geography department? Geography Directions (online): https://blog.geographydirections.com/2015/04/08/what-happened-to-the-american-geography-department/
On decolonialism and geography: Esson, J., Noxolo, P., Baxter, R., Daley, P., & Byron, M. (2017). The 2017 RGS‐IBG chair's theme: Decolonising geographical knowledges, or reproducing coloniality?. Area, 49(3), 384-388
Your Human Geography Dissertation:
https://study.sagepub.com/yourhumangeography
Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity:
Kim's Twitter
https://twitter.com/drkimpeters?lang=en
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
In today’s commoning episode we are talking about the Urban Commons in advance of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) virtual conference on this topic, which is happening May 6-8: https://2021urban.iasc-commons.org/
Michael spoke with three of the organizers of this conference: Hita Unnikrishnan from the University of Sheffield, Rimjhim Aggarwal from Arizona State University, and Harini Nagendra from Azim Premji University.
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
In today’s commoning episode we are talking about topics related to commoning and the Anthropocene, in advance of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) virtual conference on Commoning the Anthropocene. To do this, Stefan Partelow is talking with two organizers of the conference, Therese Lindahl and Jean-Denis Mathias, about the topics and organization of the conference as well as their own research, and of course interdisciplinarity and science cooperation.
https://2021anthropocene.iasc-commons.org/
Therese Lindahl is the program director for behavior, economics, and nature and the Beijer institute of ecological economics in Stockholm Sweden. She conducts research on collective action problems around shared natural resources, and investigates how local resource users perceive and respond to the increasingly challenging resource conditions that they are confronted with.
https://beijer.kva.se/people-beijer/therese-lindahl/
https://beijer.kva.se/programmes/ben/
Jean-Denis Mathias is research director at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and is part of the Complex System lab.
He has a background in physics and mechanics of material, and his current research deals with the dynamical modeling of social-ecological systems such as agent-based models and differential equations. Specifically, this work aims to understand the sustainable management and transitions of these systems for short-term and long-term benefits.
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
In this episode Michael spoke with Natalie Ban, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Natalie spoke with Michael about her work with coastal indigenous communities in British Columbia, and the importance she places on engaging with her local partners in the right way, without imposing her own research questions or hypotheses, looking for windows of opportunity for her work, and trying to make sure that her work has local value. Natalie also described a distinction between two fundamentally different ways of viewing natural resource use: one that views use as extractive and detrimental, and the other which combines use with stewardship, as the indigenous communities that Natalie works with do.
Natalie's website: https://natalieban.wordpress.com/
Relevant articles by Natalie:
Ban, N. C., E. Wilson, and D. Neasloss. 2020. Historical and contemporary indigenous marine conservation strategies in the North Pacific. Conservation biology: the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology 34(1):5–14.
Ban, N., E. Wilson, and D. Neasloss. 2019. Strong historical and ongoing indigenous marine governance in the northeast Pacific Ocean: a case study of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation. Ecology and Society 24(4):10.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11091-240410
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Frank van Laerhoven and Stefan Partelow are speaking with Karen Bradshaw. Karen was a recent guest editor in a special issue of the International Journal of the Commons titled ‘Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights’ with her colleagues Billy Christmas and Dean Lueck. The special issue features 9 articles including and editorial led by guest editors.
https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ijc.1070/
Karen Bradshaw is a Professor at Arizona State University in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and holds a joint position as a Senior Sustainability Scientist in Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. She researches governance of natural resources, with an emphasis on emerging regulatory approaches including certification regimes, public-private partnerships, and collaborative settlements. She is an expert on wildfire law and has also written about land development and forest management.
Karen's University page:
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2188921
https://twitter.com/km_bradshaw/
In Common Podcast
https://twitter.com/incommonpod?lang=en
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
In this episode Michael spoke with Marta Berbes, a professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. During their conversation, Marta discussed her work on ecosystem service provision in several agricultural communities in Costa Rica and the importance of asking who gets what services, and why? Michael also asked Marta about her emphasis on participatory action research and her more recent work in South Phoenix on resilience and youth perspectives on green space.
Marta's website: https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/marta-berbes/
Marta's paper on ecosystem services in Costa Rica:
Berbés-Blázquez, M., M. J. Bunch, P. R. Mulvihill, G. D. Peterson, and B. van Wendel de Joode. 2017. Understanding how access shapes the transformation of ecosystem services to human well-being with an example from Costa Rica. Ecosystem Services 28:320–327.
Paper from Jesse Ribot and Nancy Peluso describing the theory of access that Marta mentions:
Ribot, J. C., and N. L. Peluso. 2009. A theory of access. Rural sociology 68(2):153–181