Description
This 3-day course invited international PhD students from all disciplines to consider the societal-ecological relevance of their intended conceptual developments, with a focus on how these may have an impact on citizens’ daily lives. Emphasis was put on the projects’ theoretical innovation potentials and their concrete challenges with making such innovation relevant to the research project participants, collaboration partners, civil society, politicians, or more generally: to the broader ecology.In the course we collectively discussed challenges in overcoming the wicked theory-practice gap prominently present in the translation of ecological concerns into sustainable daily actions. Questions that were addressed by the course teachers were generated in response to the participants’ research questions and included, for instance: To what extent are ecological concerns an integrated part of everyday life? How do these stand in tension with other concerns and priorities, and how do concepts such as ‘care’ assist in making sense of these tensions? How do different ways of understanding and working with the ecological in everyday life, for instance in terms of notions such as climate justice or environmental justice, transform practices and subjectivities differently in varying societal contexts, and what can the role of the academic researcher be in these transformations?
The discussions touched particularly upon how culturally and materially grounded psychological and philosophical approaches could help with shedding conceptual light on the potentials and tensions emerging when aiming for both ecological and social sustainability in lived everyday practices.
Learning Objectives: The goal of the course was to support the students’ further development of the theoretical tools they are employing in their research – be it further development of existing theory, challenging existing theory, or exploring novel avenues of theoretical work.
| Period | 17 Jan 2024 → 19 Jan 2024 |
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| Event type | Course |
| Location | Roskilde, DenmarkShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |