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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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Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
This insight episode is taken from full episode 30, Stefan’s conversation with Ina Möller.
Ina Möller is a postdoctoral researcher in the environmental policy group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Ina completed her PhD in the Department of Political Science at Lund University in Sweden, where her thesis was titled The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering. She also has a Master degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University, and a Bachelor degree in Political Science and Public Administration.
She currently works together with Prof. Aarti Gupta on anticipation, governance and transparency in the politics of climate change. Her principal focus has been on the case of climate engineering, which describes large-scale interventions into natural systems that are envisioned to stabilize global temperatures. She continues to study the reaction of actors throughout society as the idea of engineering the climate becomes more normalized in climate science.
https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Ina-dr.-IM-Ina-Moller.htm
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ina_Moeller
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Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
In this episode, Stefan interviews Joerg Niewoehner.
Joerg is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where he is also the director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, with the acronym (IRI THESys). He holds a PhD in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia. In 2004, he joined the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin to develop a collaborative program between Social Anthropology and the Life Sciences. He now holds a chair in Social Anthropology of Human-Environment Relations. He conducts ethnographic research at the intersection of science and technology studies, social anthropology and environmental sciences focusing particularly on the qualities of urbanisation, social-ecological change, and metabolic and market dynamics. He also serves on the board of the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies.
In episode, we discuss how reflecting on theory of science can help position scholars towards understanding interdisciplinary challenges. We also discuss the challenges with inter- and trans-discipliarity, along with his perspectives on the challenges and paths forward. We touch on how the structural organization of universities and institutes balance traditional disciplinary orientation and more innovative forms of academic organization to foster interdisciplinarity. Joerg also talk about his future research interests in long social-ecological research with a focus on qualitative and quality change using qualitative data. For this he is interested in pushing forward innovative ways to archive qualitative data in social groups as living knowledge and archives rather than traditional digital repositories.
https://www.iri-thesys.org/
https://www.iri-thesys.org/people/niewoehner
https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en&user=PGZ0pdcAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
In this episode, Stefan interviews Emily Boyd, an in-person interview recorded back in January 2020.
Emily is Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and Professor in Sustainability Science. She is a leading social scientist with a background in international development, environment and climate change, with a focus on the interdisciplinary nexus of poverty, livelihoods and resilience in relation to global environmental change. Emily is currently leading work on undesirable resilience, politics of loss and damage and intersectionality in societal transitions, including on transformations under climate change.
Emily Boyd is also an author for the IPCC, IPBES, and UKCCRA and is an Earth System Governance Senior Fellow.
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/emily-boyd
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=CatOY9oAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
In this episode Michael spoke with Brent Loken, a Global Food Lead Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Together they discussed Brent's realization that conservation ultimately needs to engage with how we meet peoples' needs, and that food is at the center of this. After describing the path he has taken leading up to his current position, Brent talked about his work at the WWF to promote a global transformation in our food system.
Brent's information:
Website: https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/brent-loken
Twitter: @brentloken
Email: brent.loken@wwf.org
Link to a WWF project on Planet-based diets that Brent is involved in:
https://planetbaseddiets.panda.org/
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
This insight episode is from episode 006, Stefan’s interview with Sonya Graci.
Sonya Graci is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson, University in Toronto, Ontario. She is also the Director of the Hospitality and Tourism Research Institute. Sonya has worked on numerous projects around the world related to sustainable tourism development and has focused her attention on community capacity building in Honduras, Indonesia, Canada, Fiji and China. She has a keen interest in working with Aboriginal communities in developing sustainable forms of tourism. She also has a passion for increasing sustainability in marine environments and has focused much of her research on sustainable tourism development in island states. Sonya is the author of two books and several journal articles and industry publications.
Sonya's links
https://accommodatinggreen.com/
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=GVQ1fy8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
In this episode, Stefan interviews Anna-Katharina Hornidge. Anna is the Director of the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany, one of the leading research institutions and think tanks for global development and international cooperation worldwide. She is also a Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn.
Anne refers to herself as a Development and Knowledge Sociologist with a focus on natural resource governance and sense-making, the social construction of knowledges and 'realities', as well as cultures of knowledge production and sharing. She is also an advocate of transformative science to advance inter- and transdisciplinary science cooperation.
In the episode, Anna tells us about her career and path into science leadership through Southeast Asian Studies, sociology, development and environmental governance research. We then discuss how she draws on a constructivist perspective, and how this can be applied to understand how and why knowledge is produced within the science system, and the implications this had on funding structures, outcomes and development politics. Anna also gives her take on making interdisciplinary research work in practice, and the challenges with pushing forward a transformative science agenda.
Anna’s homepage
https://www.die-gdi.de/en/anna-katharina-hornidge/
Anna’s twitter
https://twitter.com/AnnaK_Hornidge
German Development Institute twitter
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Saturday Dec 26, 2020
Saturday Dec 26, 2020
In this episode we talked about our favorite books of 2020, as well as some we want to read in 2021. The books we discussed are listed below in alphabetical order by title:
All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Control of Nature by John McPhee
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Far-fetched Facts by Richard Rottenburg
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen
Invisible women by Caroline Criado Perez
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
On the Backs of Tortoises by Elizabeth Hennessy
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
The Paradoxes of Transparency by Doug Wilson
Range by David Epstein
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Unhinged by Daniel Carlat
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
This insight clip is from full episode 53, Michael and Courtney’s interview with Jacopo Baggio.
Jacopo is an assistant professor at the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida.
In this insight clip, Jacopo answers a few questions related to the need for multiple methods and the challenges associated with social science research.
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Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Today’s ‘Insight’ episode is from full episode 22, Stefan’s interview with Liz Carlisle.
Liz's UCSB page
https://www.es.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/lizcarlisle
In this clip, Liz explains how her music career has influenced her ethnographic research, with lessons we can all learn about being present.
Liz Carlisle is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at University of California, Santa Barbara, where her work focuses on fostering a more just and sustainable food system. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, and she formerly served as Legislative Correspondent for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester. Recognized for her academic publishing with the Elsevier Atlas Award, which honors research with social impact, Liz has also written numerous pieces for general audience readers, in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is the author of two books about transition to sustainable farming: Lentil Underground (winner of the 2016 Montana Book Award) and Grain by Grain, coauthored with farmer Bob Quinn.
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