Hello, fellow travellers, Next stop on The Travelling Scientist journey is the Travelling Without Borders project, managed by Environmental Humanities Lab and with support from KTH-Sustainability. In this project we want to explore how we as scientists travel and the reasons to why we do it. This from an environmental and cultural perspective. We will … Continue reading “Travelling Without Borders”
Five sustainability scholars from Lund University, Sweden, on a rooftop terrace in Rabat, Morocco. Below us the city unfolds. The ancient medina performing its ancient medina-ness: winding alleys, torn mosaic stairs and arcades, market stands parading rows of bright colors, smells of grilled meat and scented oil. Walls lined with elderly men drinking thick black … Continue reading “Anna Kaijser: Embodiment, privilege and the brightness of countless mirrors – miscellaneous notes from a fieldwork”
In a recent blog entry Gabriel Söderberg summarized the discussion about individual contribution to climate change quite well: because voluntary restrictions are not enough to achieve considerable CO2 reductions we have to hope for new technical policies or cut each others’ liberties. This resembles two of the “myths” which Mike Hulme diagnoses behind the disagreement … Continue reading “Michael Deflorian: Flying but not quite free – individuals and their (self-)government in modern societies”
As scientists we are today pushed towards traveling. Meeting peers at conferences, having a postdoc period in another country far away or even do field work abroad are judged as part of becoming a successful scientist. The evaluation system regarding new positions is structured so that publications in English and experiences of networking abroad are … Continue reading “Martin Hultman: The nomads who does not move”
The starting point of this blog is absolutely right: We need to talk more about travelling. Some points of departure for further discussion could be: Globally we need to reduce emissions to something like 1-2 ton of CO2-equivalents per capita by 2050 in order to be in line with the 2-degree target. For us in Sweden … Continue reading “Göran Finnveden: Where should we go now?”
