Greening societies with just socio-technical transformations: Joining agendas across disciplines and the activist-academia divide

“Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities (EHJustice) workshop”

TIME
Monday 27 March 2023, at 09:00 – 16:30 (CET)
LOCATION
(Hybrid) Innovation HUB, Aalborg University
ORGANIZER
The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities (EHJustice)

The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities (EHJustice): Transformative engagements between academia and civil society will hold their third workshop: ‘Greening societies with just socio-technical transformations: Joining agendas across disciplines and the activist-academia divide’.

This workshop marks the beginning of the third and final year of The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities: Transformative engagements between academia and civil society. The network works to probe and redefine the boundaries between scholarship and civil society in the strengthening of a shared path towards a more just and environmentally friendly world. Within the range of network activities, workshops are smaller events that serve to prepare the intellectual ground for the conversations that will be developed at the larger conferences.

The third EHJustice Workshop brings together researchers, activists and civil society who are engaging in discussions around socio-technical transformations across different scales and spaces. The aim of this workshop is to broaden ongoing debates about a just greening of societies and move beyond the environmental humanities to explore what future imaginaries and activist driving forces exist across disciplines. It raises two important questions: how can the environmental humanities and civil society collaborate with STEM disciplines in the promotion of transformations towards a “greener” and environmentally just future that favours social, cultural and political diversity? and; What kind of collaborative and interdisciplinary spaces can we foster to develop models of and for positive change?

Local organising team
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (aoan@ikl.aau.dk)
Malayna Raftopoulos (raftopoulos@dps.aau.dk)
Mikkel Fugl Eskjær (eskjaer@ikp.aau.dk)

EHJustice core network members: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Georg Fischer, Heather Swanson, Kristine Samson, Malayna Raftopoulos, Mikkel Fugl Eskjær, Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen