Flumens Projektleiter Dennis Eversberg nimmt am 1. Juni 2022 im Rahmen des NABU-Online-Talks „Welche Ökonomie braucht eine Bioökonomie“ an der Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Wie könnte man zukünftig ein nachhaltigeres Wirtschaften umsetzen?“ teil.

Mehr Informationen zum Inhalt, Programm und zur Anmeldung sind hier und im Flyer zu finden:

Scientific Coffee Human-Forest-Relationships presents:

1st June 2022

13-15 CET / 14-16 EEST

Input: Maija Halonen (University of Eastern Finland)
Socio-economic forest relations in Northern peripheries

Maija Halonen is human geographer with background in social policy. Currently she is working as postdoctoral researcher in the University of Eastern Finland and her research interests focus on the socio-economic development of Northern forest peripheries. In her project founded by the Kone Foundation, she approaches the development in the frames of global sustainability transition and through the case studies from the East and North Finland. 

In her presentation, she scrutinises discursive scenarios and frames which analysis is based on the documents and interviews with regional development actors. First, she describes the alternative scenarios for expected development paths and identifies which factors are related to forests. Then she presents the findings of the hegemonic and alternative discourses on forest-related development and constructs the frames which describe the regional forest relations. Based on the results, aspirations and good will describe different phases of the relations than the current reality and therefore forest relations seem to be transforming but very slowly in Northern peripheries. The most striking note call for understanding, appreciation and acknowledgement of forest relations which people in the middle of the specific forests have and have had for generations. 

Zoom-link: https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/61027392103

Meeting-ID: 610 2739 2103
Kenncode: 513063

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The “Scientific Coffee” sessions continue our cooperation and exchange on the relations between society, humans and forests that we started with the workshop “Contested Society-Nature-Relations. Forest related Emotions, Practices & Conflicts in Times of Societal Change” in May 2021. They give room for open and relaxed discussions on current research subjects related to human and society relations to forests. The Scientific Coffee sessions take place as often as we find the time to organise another session – but at least one session per semester is planned.

More info on our past workshop: https://www.flumen.uni-jena.de/workshop-contested-society-nature-relations-forest-related-emotions-practices-conflicts-in-times-of-societal-change-27-28-may-2021-2/c

If you are interested in contributing to the next “Scientific Coffee HFR”, please contact judith.kiss@uni-jena.de with info on your subject (title and short abstract) and a preferred Wednesday (13-15 CET / 14-16 EEST).

Energy, work, and power are intertwined, both in the scientific definition of energy (the ability to do work), and in the political manifestation of human-fuel practices. Fossil fuel advocates rely upon the threat of job loss and energy dependency to mobilize affection for oil, coal or gas, but many renewable energy advocates also adopt this framework in calls for a just energy transition. Doing so helps keep modern energy cultures yoked to extractivism. Cara Daggett traced the historical emergence of the relationship between energy and work, focusing upon how work came to be understood and valued as a site of energy transformation. The energy-work ethos informed the emergent fossil fuel culture, wherein technical categories of work and waste intersect with racialized, and gendered, judgments of productivity and sloth. Thinking about energy historically suggests that shifting our fuel cultures will require a corresponding shift in (post)-industrial cultures of work and Western understandings of freedom.

Cara Daggett gave the lecture on 19 May 2022 online as part of the workshop “Mental infrastructures of modern fossil and bio-based societies”. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech where she researches feminist political ecology. See more under https://www.caranewdaggett.com/.

Recent publications of her:
„Energy and Domination: Contesting the Fossil Myth of Fuel Expansion,“ (Environmental Politics) 
„Toward Feminist Energy Systems: Why Adding Women and Solar Panels Isn’t Enough,“ with Shannon E. Bell and Christine Labuski (2020, Energy Research & Social Science),
„Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire“ (2018, Millennium: Journal of International Studies)
Book: The Birth of Energy (Duke 2019)

Am 12. Mai 2022 hielt Philip Koch einen Impulsvortrag mit anschließender Diskussionsrunde zum Thema „Bioökonomie und Gerechtigkeit“. Der Vortrag war Teil des Biodialogs, das im Forschungsprojekt BIOCIVIS vom 12. bis 14. Mai 2022 in Münster organisiert worden war. Beim Biodialog diskutieren und mitentscheiden Bürger:innen, wie bioökonomische Prozesse, die nicht mehr auf fossile Rohstoffe wie Erdöl, sondern auf nachwachsende Ressourcen zurückgreifen, in Zukunft genutzt werden sollen. Weitere Informationen werden in Kürze hier veröffentlicht.

Vom 30.4. bis zum 14.5. arbeitet Dr. Martin Fritz von flumen als Gastforscher an der School of Social Work der Universität zu Lund. Während des Aufenthaltes wird er mit Prof. Max Koch und weiteren Kolleg:innen an verschiedenen Artikeln zum Thema ’nachhaltige Wohlfahrt ohne Wachstum‘ arbeiten und dort seine Expertise in statistischen Analysen relationaler Mentalitätsforschung einbringen. Unter anderem wird er einen Workshop dazu veranstalten, wie Korrespondenzanalysen zur Auswertung sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten genutzt werden können.

Die Universität Lund ist eines der wichtigsten Zentren für die Forschung zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation in Europa. Verbindungen zu deutschen Instituten und Projekten wie unserer Nachwuchsgruppe „Mentalitäten im Fluss. Vorstellungswelten und Sozialstrukten in modernen, biokreislauf-basierten Gesellschaften (flumen)“ haben eine lange Tradition und sind wichtig für die internationale Vernetzung der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung.

Am 23. Mai 2022 hält Matthias Schmelzer den Vortrag „Vom Luddismus zu den «limits to growth»: Zu einer Geschichte der Wachstumskritik“ in der Ringvorlesung zum Thema Wirtschaftswachstum und Wachstumskritik an der Universität Bern. Mehr Informationen hier.