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For updated publication lists with pdfs, go here. (This page updated May 2021.)

 

1. Positions and Educational Record
Current Position

  • 2023--   Professor Urban Sustainability Studies, Division of Strategic Sustainability Studies, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • 2021-2023    Associate Professor in Urban Sustainability Studies, Division of Strategic Sustainability Studies, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Honorary Positions

  • 2017-2023    Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, School of Education and Environment (SEED), The University of Manchester. Employed on 1 August 2017.
  • 2018-2023    Honorary Associate Professor, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. Appointed by UCT’s Council and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, in recognition of long and extensive contribution to the institution and towards strengthening international collaborations. Five years, 1 Nov 2018 to 31 Aug 2023.
  • 2020-2021    Chair of KTH’s Scientific Council to the City of Stockholm (2-year appointment, co-chairing with colleague) to facilitate science- and theory-based dialogues on systemic and entrenched urban problems with academics and experts of the city.

Previous Positions

  • 2013-2017    Research Fellow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology — Division of History                       of Science, Technology and the Environment and its KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory (Employed on 2013-10-01
  • 2016-2017    Senior Lecturer (part-time), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
  • 2011-2015    Honorary Visiting Scholar, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.
  • 2010-2013    Research Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.
  • 2008-2010         Research Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University
  • 2003-2008    PhD Student, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University. (includes parental leave during 15 months)

Postdoctoral Positions

  • 2013-2015    Stig Hagström Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Stanford University (funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation).
  • 2010-2011    Postdoctoral Fellow, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. (funded by Formas).

Higher Education

  • 2008     PhD in Natural Resource Management, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Sweden. Opponent: Prof Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester. Supervisors: Prof Thomas Elmqvist (ecologist) and Prof Sverker Sörlin (environmental historian). Title: “In Rhizomia: Actors, Networks and Resilience in Urban Landscapes.” Graduation date 26 September 2008.
  • 1998     M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (Civilingenjör), Linköping University, Sweden. Major in Control Theory and System Analysis. 
  • 1993     B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Jönköping University College, Sweden.

Leaves from Research
In total 15 months of parental leave (from 1 Aug 2003-31 March 2004 and 1 Jan-31 July 2006).

 

(Positions before academic career includes engineer and international project manageer at ABB engineering firm, IT industry, theatre producer and high school teacher.)

 

PUBLICATIONS 

 

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

  1. Ernstson, Henrik. (2021). Ecosystems and Urbanization: A Colossal Meeting of Giant Complexities. Ambio 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Urbanization, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01516-y
  2. Ernstson, Henrik, Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes, and Erik Swyngedouw. (2021). Turning Livelihood to Rubbish? The Politics of Value and Valuation in South Africa’s Urban Waste Sector. In African Cities and Collaborative Futures: Urban Platforms and Metropolitan Logistics, edited by Michael Keith and Andreza de Souza Santos. Manchester: Manchester University Presss. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155368/
  3. Ernstson, Henrik. (2020). Urban Plants and Colonial Durabilities. In The Botanical City, edited by Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper, 71–81. Berlin: Jovis. ISBN 978-3-86859-519-2
  4. Kimari, Wangui, and Henrik Ernstson. (2020). Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Centering Race within the Contemporary Large-Scale Infrastructures of East Africa. Antipode.
  5. Sseviiri, Hakimu, Shuaib Lwasa, Mary Lawhon, and Henrik Ernstson. 2020. “Claiming Value in a Heterogeneous Solid Waste Configuration in Kampala.” Urban Geography 00 (00): 1–22. 
  6. Anderson, Pippin., Charles-Dominique, T., Henrik Ernstson, Andersson, E., and Elmqvist, T. (2020). Post-apartheid ecologies in the City of Cape Town: An examination of plant functional traits in relation to urban gradients. Landscape and Urban Planning 193 (January 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103662. 
  7. Lewis, Joshua A, and Henrik Ernstson. (2019). Contesting the Coast: Ecosystems as Infrastructure in the Mississippi River Delta. Progress in Planning 129: 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2017.10.003.
  8. Ernstson, Henrik and Erik Swyngedouw (2019) Politicizing the Environment in the Urban Century. In Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Political Interruptions and Possibilities, edited by Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw, Chapter 1. Routledge: Oxford.
  9. Swyngedouw, Erik and Henrik Ernstson (2019) O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene. (Same book as previous.) Chapter 2.
  10. Henao Castro, Andrés and Henrik Ernstson (2019) “Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta!” Postcolonial Remains and The Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene.” (Same book as previous.) Chapter 4.
  11. Swyngedouw, Erik and Henrik Ernstson (2019) Bringing Back the Political: Egalitarian Acting, Performative Theory. (Same book as previous.) Chapter 14.
  12. Ernstson, Henrik and Sverker Sörlin (2019, in press) Toward Comparative Urban Environmentalism: The Discovery of Urban Natures in a “World of Cities.” In Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies, edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin, Chapter 1. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
  13. Àvila, Martín and Henrik Ernstson (2019, in press) Realms of Exposure: A Speculative Design Perspective of Material Agency and Political Ecology. (Same book as previous.) Chapter 5.
  14. Ernstson, Henrik and Sverker Sörlin (2019, in press) Urban Natures as a Knowledge Project: Grounding and Worlding in a “World of Cities”. (Same book as previous.) Chapter 13.
  15. Swyngedouw, Erik and Henrik Ernstson (2018) Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene: Immuno-Biopolitics and Depoliticizing Ontologies in the Anthropocene. Theory, Culture & Society. 35(3): 6-30.
  16. Lawhon, Mary, David Nilsson, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson, and Shuaib Lwasa (2018) “Thinking through Heterogeneous Infrastructure Configurations.” Urban Studies55 (4): 720–32.
  17. Diani, M., Henrik Ernstson, and Lorien Jasny (2018, in press). “Right to the City” and the structure of civic organizational fields: Evidence from Cape Town. Voluntas. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-9958-1.
  18. von Heland, Jacob and Henrik Ernstson (2018, Film, 84 min). One Table Two Elephants. Documentary film and cinematic ethnography. Direction & Production (co-creators): Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. World Premiere at CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Film Festival 21 March 2018 and nominated for the Nordic:Dox Award.
  19. Lewis, Joshua A, Wayne C. Zipperer, Henrik Ernstson, Brittany Bernik, Rebecca Hazen, Thomas Elmqvist, and Michael J. Blum (2017). Socioecological Disparities in New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina. Ecosphere, 8(9), e01922. OnlineFirst. http://doi.org/e01922.
  20. Ernstson, Henrik, Örjan Bodin and Beatrice Crona. (2017). Las Redes Sociales En La Gestión de Los Recursos Naturales: ¿Qué Hay Que Aprender de Una Perspectiva Estructural?” REDES 28: 1–8. [Translation of our 2006 article; authors participated equally, cited as Bodin et al.]. 
  21. Hanna Erixon Aalto and Henrik Ernstson (2017) Of plants, high lines and horses: Civics and designers in the relational articulation of values of urban natures. Landscape and Urban Planning 157: 309–321. Joint author (lion share of theory).
  22. Lawhon, Mary, Jonathan Silver, Henrik Ernstson and Joe Pierce (2016) Unlearning [un]located ideas in the provincialization of urban theory. Regional Studies 50 (9): 1611–22.
  23. Ernstson, Henrik, Stephan Barthel, and Jonathan Parker (2015). Food and green space in cities: on gardens and urban environmental movements. Urban Studies 52 (7): 1321–1338. [Authors participated equally, cited as Barthel et al.] Joint author. Citation score: 43. G-score: 129.
  24. Ernstson, Henrik, Mary Lawhon, and James Duminy (2014). Conceptual vectors of African Urbanism: ‘Engaged Theory-Making’ and ‘Platforms of Engagement.’ Regional Studies 48(9): 1563–77. [Authors participated equally, cited as Ernstson et al.] Joint author. Citation score: 16. G-score: 24.
  25. Ernstson, Henrik, Mary Lawhon, and Jonathan Silver (2014). Provincializing Urban Political Ecology: Towards a Situated UPE through African Urbanism. Antipode, 46(2), 497–516. [Authors participated equally, cited as Lawhon et al.] Joint author. Citation score: 70. G-score: 120.
  26. Anderson, Pippin M.L., Georgina Avlonitis, and Henrik Ernstson (2014). Ecological outcomes of civic and expert-led urban greening projects using indigenous plant species in Cape Town, South Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 127, 104–113.
  27. Ernstson, Henrik (2014). The political nature of urban wetlands: Speaking from Princess Vlei Wetland, Cape Town. Urban Wetlands: South Asia, Issue 2, pp. 2–5. [Shorter piece.] Single author. Citation score: 0. G-score: 5.
  28. Mills, Morena, J.G. Álvarez-Romero, K. Vance-Borland, P. Cohen, R.L. Pressey, A.M. Guerrero, and Henrik Ernstson (2014). Linking regional planning and local action: Towards using social network analysis in systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation, 169, 6–13.
  29. Ernstson, Henrik (2013). The social production of ecosystem services: A framework for studying environmental justice and ecological complexity in urbanized landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 109(1), 7–17. Single author.
  30. Ernstson, Henrik, and Sverker Sörlin (2013). Ecosystem services as technology of globalization: On articulating values in urban nature. Ecological Economics, 86, 274–284.
  31. Colding, Johan, Stephan Barthel, Pim Bendt, Robbert Snep, Wim van der Knaap, and Henrik Ernstson (2013). Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems. Global Environmental Change, 23(5), 1039–1051.
  32. Graham, Marnie, and Henrik Ernstson (2012). Co-management at the fringes: Examining stakeholder perspectives at Macassar Dunes, Cape Town, South Africa—at the intersection of high biodiversity, urban poverty, and inequality. Ecology and Society, 17(3).
  33. Ernstson, Henrik, (2012). Social Network Analysis (SNA). In D. Fogel et al. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Sustainability: Vol. 6. Measurements, Indicators, and Research Methods for Sustainability. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, pp. 322–325. [Peer-reviewed chapter, 2000 words.] Single author. Citation score: n/a. G-score: 1.
  34. Stein, Christian, Henrik Ernstson, and Jennie Barron (2011). A social network approach to analyzing water governance: The case of the Mkindo catchment, Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36(14-15), 1085–1092.

  35. Ernstson, Henrik (2011). Transformative collective action: A network approach to transformative change in ecosystem-based management. In Ö. Bodin and C. Prell (Eds.), Social Networks and Natural Resource Management (pp. 255–287). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Peer-reviewed chapter.]

  36. Bodin, Örjan, S. Ramirez-Sanchez, Henrik Ernstson, and Christina Prell (2011). A social relational approach to natural resource governance. In Ö. Bodin and C. Prell (Eds.), Social Networks and Natural Resource Management (pp. 1–54). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Peer-reviewed chapter.]

  37. Crona, Beatrice, Henrik Ernstson, Christina Prell, Mark Reed, and Klaus Hubacek (2011). Combining social network approaches with social theories to improve understanding of natural resource governance. In Ö. Bodin and C. Prell (Eds.), Social Networks and Natural Resource Management (pp. 44–71). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Peer-reviewed chapter.] 

  38. Ernstson, Henrik, Stephan Barthel, Erik Andersson, and Sara T. Borgström (2010). Scale-crossing brokers and network governance of urban ecosystem services: The case of Stockholm. Ecology and Society, 15(4).

  39. Ernstson, H., Sander E. van der Leeuw, Charles L. Redman, Doug J. Meffert, George Davis, Christene Alfsen, and Thomas Elmqvist (2010). Urban transitions: On urban resilience and human-dominated ecosystems. Ambio, 39(8), 531–545
  40. Cumming, Graeme S., Örjan Bodin, Henrik Ernstson, and Thomas Elmqvist (2010). Network analysis in conservation biogeography: Challenges and opportunities. Diversity and Distributions, 16(3), 414–425.
  41. Ernstson, Henrik, and Sverker Sörlin (2009). Weaving protective stories: Connective practices to articulate holistic values in the Stockholm National Urban Park. Environment and Planning A, 41(6), 1460–1479.
  42. Ernstson, Henrik, Sverker Sörlin, and Thomas Elmqvist (2008). Social movements and ecosystem services: The role of social network structure in protecting and managing urban green areas in Stockholm. Ecology and Society, 13(2)
  43. Ernstson, Henrik, Örjan Bodin, and Beatrice Crona (2006). Social networks in Natural Resource Management: What is there to learn from a structural perspective? Ecology and Society, 11(2). [Authors participated equally, cited as Bodin et al.]
  44. Janssen, M.A., Örjan Bodin, J.M. Anderies, Thomas Elmqvist, Henrik Ernstson, R.R.J. McAllister, Per Olsson and P. Ryan (2006). Toward a network perspective of the study of resilience in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 11(1), 20.
  45. Elmqvist Thomas, … Henrik Ernstson (2004). The dynamics of social-ecological systems in urban landscapes. Annual New York Academy of Science, 1023, 308–322. [In total 11 co-authors.] 

 

Books

  1. Ernstson, Henrik, and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. 2019. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities. Abingdon & New York: Routledge. NB: I have co-written Introduction, Conclusion, and two chapters.  This book advances Urban Political Ecology in a world of planetary and uneven urbanization with intensifying capitalism and deepening ecological crisis, but where new emergent and situated forms of political mobilization re-asserts ‘the political’. It includes an Introduction and Conclusion by the editors and 13 chapters from leading political ecologists, political theorists and urban scholars including Maria Kaika, Edgar Pieterse, Garth Myers, Roger Keil, Nik Heynen, Richard Walker, Malini Ranganathan and Jodi Dean amongst others. Empirical reflections based on experiences from global North and global South.
  2. Ernstson, Henrik and Sverker Sörlin, eds. (2019) “Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies”. Cambridge MA: MIT Press (Planned publication in Northern Spring 2019). NB: I have co-written Introduction, Conclusion, and two chapters. This book argues for a cosmopolitical and comparative urban environmental research agenda to understand the contested nature of urban nature in a ‘world of cities’. It includes our Introduction and Conclusion with 12 chapters from leading scholars from anthropology, sociology, geography and environmental history, including Amita Baviskar, Jens Lachmund, Lance van Sittert, Richard Walker and younger scholars, Lindsay Sawyer, Jia-Ching Chen, Joshua Lewis, amongst others. Studies from global North and global South cities, including Lagos, Cape Town, San Francisco, New Orleans, New Delhi, Yixing City in China, and Cordoba in Argentina, amongst others. 

  3. Von Heland, Jacob von, Bill Adams, Marco Armiero, Klara Björk, Kalle Boman, Andrés Castro-Henao, Sompot Chidgasornpongse, Henrik Ernstson et al., eds. (2021). “Ruptured Times: Advances in Visual Environmental Humanties.” Annals of Crosscuts: Films of Environmental Humanities 1 (1): 1–6. https://crosscuts.se/annals-of-crosscuts/films-of-environmental-humanities/.

  4. Ernstson Henrik., Stephan Barthel, Johan Colding, Hanna Erixon, Sara Grahn, Carl Kärsten, Lars Marcus, Johan Torsvall (2013) Principles of Social-Ecological Urbanism: Case study Albano Campus, Stockholm. TRITA-ARK-Forskningspublikationer 2013:3, KTH, Stockholm. [Authors participated equally. Cited as Barthel et al.] 

Reports to governments and civil society

  1. Pandis Iveroth, Sofie, Sara T. Borgström, and Henrik Ernstson. 2021. “Fossilfri Och Tillgänglig Transport Och Mobilitet.” Stockholm. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17940.22407.

 

Book reviews 

  1. Ernstson, Henrik (2014). Book Review. Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature. Science and Technology Studies, 27(1), pp.113–116.

Peer-reviewed published conference proceedings with results not published elsewhere (none)

  1. Ernstson, Henrik (2013). Re-translating nature in post-apartheid Cape Town: The material semiotics of people and plants at Bottom Road. In: R. Heeks (Ed.) Actor-Network Theory for Development: Working Paper Series (Paper 4/2013) Manchester: Institute for Development Policy and Management, SED, University of Manchester. Available at: http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk/resources/ant4d-working-papers/ [Note: This is published in a working paper series.]

Artistic works (film, theatre and exhibitions) (see also item 6.2 with 6 produced theatre plays since 2001)

  1. Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish. Yvette Kruger, Nate Millington, and Henrik Ernstson (2018, Documentary film, 35 minutes). South Africa: Substance Films.
  2. One Table Two Elephants. Created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson (2018, Documentary film) World premiere and nominated for the Nordic:Dox Award at CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Film Festival on 21 March 2018. Direction & Production shared. A cinematic ethnography about race, nature and ways of knowing the postcolonial city filmed in Cape Town part of a wider research project.
  3. Killing Aliens Everyday: Otherness as Constitutive of an Organized Inside, A Film-based Experiment. (2016, Short film, 15min) Created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. Direction & Production shared. Conference Contribution to Stories of the Anthropocene Festival (SAL), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 26-29 October 2016, Stockholm.
  4. STOMPIE: Crafting stories from Cape Flats. (2016, Theatre, 45 min) A theatre play based on hip-hop, Afrikaaps and popular theatre around the theme of crafting stories from Cape Flats. Director: Kent Ekberg; Producer: Henrik Ernstson and Kajsa Nordin; Actors/artists: Emile Jansen, Leeroy Philips, Stefan Benting, Andre Bozack. Screened 25 February 2016, The Garage Stage, Heal the Hood Project, Grassy Park, Cape Town.

  5. Ways of Knowing Urban Natures (2015, Film, 41min, First Cut). Created by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. Direction & Production shared. Conference Contribution to Urban Beyond Measure, Stanford University, 8-9 May 2015. (41m00s). Also publically screened and discussed during in Palo Alto, Stockholm, Stellenbosch, Windhoek, Rome and Munich (for dates see below).

  6. Transdans (2016, Short film, 9 min) Created by Jacob von Heland and Ernstson, Henrik. Direction & Production shared. Entrant in the Cape Flats Film Festival, 15-27 August 2016, organised by Heal the Hood Project as mobile festival visiting 12 locations.

Other publications 

1.   Ernstson, Henrik (2012) Vlei Breathing. Vlei Living: Princess Vlei as History, Ecology and Struggle at Cape Flats (pp. 11). Report. Cape Town: African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town.

2.   Ernstson, Henrik, (2008). In Rhizomia: Actors, Networks and Resilience in Urban Landscapes. PhD Dissertation, Stockholm University.

 

Exhibitions, Film Festivals and similar:

2016                 Film Festival Contribution. Cape Flats Film Festival, 15-27 Aug 2016, organized by the Heal the Hood Project as a mobile festival “to change the negative perception of the Cape Flats” by visiting 12 locations including high schools of Cape Flats in Cape Town. Entered with “Transdans” (9min) by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson filmed in Cape Town.

2015                 Curating Film & Photography Exhibition. At the conference Urban Beyond Measure, Stanford University, 8-9 May 2015, I curated with Dr. Jia-Ching Chen two film makers and two photographers as a contribution from the environmental humanities to the discussion of registers of knowing urban environments of the Global South. Photos by Dillon Marsh (South Africa); a film by Matthew Niederhauser & John Fitzgerald (USA); and a film by Henrik Ernstson & Jacob von Heland (Sweden). https://urbanbeyondmeasure.wordpress.com/film-photo/

2015                 Film Festival Contribution. Danskonstfilm fotofestivalen Knytis, 18 April 2015, Kår 393, Södermalm, Stockholm. Film: “Transdans” by Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson (8min29s)

 

 

Keynotes, invited speaker and conference participation (selection)

(The selection is based on plenary lectures, invited lectures, chairmanship, session organisation, main organizer etc. Asterisk * indicates key note speaker or invited speaker.)

2021                 Seminar presentation at KTH. “Towards Situated Histories of Heterogenous Infrastructure: Oral History as Method and Meaning,” (Ernstson & Nilsson) KTH SEED, Stockholm, 14 April 2021.

2021                 Invited Co-Speaker at University of Western Cape (online). “’Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish’: Understanding the Political Ecology of Urban Waste in South Africa,” (Millington, Stokes & Ernstson) incl. screening research film “Turning Livelihoods to Waste?” (33 minutes, Color, HD, Dolby 5:1), at the DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society Seminar Series, University of Western Cape, co-hosted with African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 25 March 2021.

2021*                (Scheduled) Keynote Speaker at SOAS, London. SOAS Workshop on Relational Ontologies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1 July 2021.

2020*                Invited Speaker at Cambridge University (online). “Grounding Urban Natures: An Invitation to Do Comparative Urban Environmentalism.” Seminar on Urban Ecologies, Department of Geography, Cambridge University. Invited by Dr Maan Barua. 13 Nov 2020.

2020                 Seminar presentation at Geography Seminar, The University of Manchester (online). “Blocos Urbanism: On the Materiality of Luanda’s Petro-infused Urban Transformations,” (Cardoso, Ernstson, Chen & Kimari), Geography Seminar Series, The University of Manchester, 9 December 2020.

2020                 Seminar presentation at The University of Manchester (online). “Colonial Remains and Cinematic Ethnography,” (working paper, Ernstson & von Heland) SERG Seminar Series, Department of Geography, The University of Manchester, 24 September 2020.

2020*                Invited Lecturer at KTH Stockholm (online). “Interrupting the Anthropo-obscene: Immuno-biopolitics and Depoliticizing Ontologies in the Anthropocene,” KTH Architecture, Masters programme in Urban Studies, Stockholm, 13 May 2020.

2020*                Invited Speaker at KTH. “Saying It Out Aloud! Occupying is something we do together; Voicing a genealogy of racial capitalism,” Occupy Climate Change Workshop, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 5-6 March 2020, Stockholm.

2019                 Conference presentation at University of Nairobi. Wangui Kimari and Henrik Ernstson, “Kilamba Life”: Domestic Visions of China in Angola” Annual Conference on China-Africa Relations (ACCAR) 2019, University of Nairobi, 12-13 September 2019.

2019*                Invited Panelist at RGS-IBG 2019 London. Invited by Professor Colin McFarlane as panelist in the session “Citylife: Agency, Aesthetics, Politics,” where I presented “The ‘Genius’ of the Local: Citylife through Thick and Thin,” Royal Geographical Society, 27-30 Aug 2019, London.

2019                 Conference presentation at RGS-IBG 2019 London. “Histories of Heterogenous Infrastructures: Negotiating Colonial, Postcolonial and Oral Archives in Kampala, Uganda” (Ernstson & Nilsson), Royal Geographical Society, 27-30 Aug 2019, London.

2019                 Conference presentation at RGS-IBG 2019 London. “Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Theorizing Racial Disposability within the Infrastructures of African Cities” (Kimari & Ernstson), Royal Geographical Society, 27-30 Aug 2019, London.

2019                 Conference presentation at University of Edinburgh, ECAS 2019. “Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations: Theorizing Racial Disposability within the Infrastructures of African Cities” (co-authored with Wangui Kimari) at European Conference of African Studies (ECAS) 2019, University of Edinburg, 11-14 June 2019.

2019*                Invited speaker at Uppsala University. Invited by CEMUS and Archeology departments to screen and discuss the film One Table Two Elephants (von Heland and Ernstson, 2018, 87 min), Fyrisbiografen (cinema), 7 June 2019. (40 people, students and scholars.)

2019*                Invited speaker at University of Sheffield. Invited by Gabriele Silvestre and Aidan Mosselson to screen and discuss the film One Table Two Elephants (von Heland and Ernstson, 2018, 87 min) as part of their MA in Cities and Global Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, 5 March 2019. (40 people, students and scholars.)

2018*                Invited co-speaker. Invited by Professor Matthew Gandy to screen the film One Table Two Elephants (von Heland and Ernstson, 2018, 87 min) and provide a talk at the workshop “Film as Method in the Geo-humanities,” Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 9-10 October 2018.

2018                 Conference presentation. “Imperial remains and imperial invitations: Theorizing fugitivity and raw-life within the infrastructure(s) of African cities” (with Wangui Kimari) at ACC International Urban Conference, University of Cape Town, 1-3 February 2018.

2018                 Conference presentation. “Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations” (with M Lawhon, D Nilsson, J Silver, and S Lwasa) at ACC International Urban Conference, University of Cape Town, 1-3 February 2018.

2017/2018         Organizer, Speaker ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series. Focusing on in-depth case studies and processes of radical urban change and emancipation with case studies from Nairobi, Sao Paolo, New Orleans and Cape Town at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 15 Oct 2017 to 5 Feb 2018 (6 seminars). Organized by Suraya Scheba and Henrik Ernstson. (Most seminars cancelled due to that police and private security guards were sent to campus in reaction to student mobilizations for fee-free higher education.)

2017                 Organizer, Speaker, Facilitator of Annual PhD Seminar at University of Cape Town. Annual PhD seminar on “Democratic Practices of Unequal Geographies” this year focusing on Understanding Capitalism in Unequal Geographies. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 19-23 June 2017. Organized by Henrik Ernstson, and political philosophers Ashley Bohrer and Andrés Henao Castro. http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1417

2017*                Keynote Lecturer at University of Trier. University of Trier Summer School in “Decolonizing Urbanism” in Trier, Germany, 6-12 June 2017. Lecture “The ‘genius’ of the local: Southern urbanism, ontological politics and decolonization” followed by screening “One Table Two Elephants” (von Heland and Ernstson; first cut version, 47 min).

2017*                Invited Speaker at RXhodes University. Lecture and screening of film “One Table Two Elephants” (von Heland and Ernstson; first cut version, 47 min,) at the workshop “Urban Realities and Greening in South Africa” organized by Department of Anthropology, Xhodes University, Grahamstown, 8-10 May 2017. (15 people, students and scholars.)

2017                 Conference Paper & Sesssion Organiser at AAG. Organised Special Session: Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century: Interrupting the Anthropo-Obscene, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Boston, April 5-9. Presented two papers: (1) “O Tempora! O Mores! Interrupting the Anthropo-Obscene” with Erik Swyngedouw; (2)  “Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta! Postcolonial Remains and the Politics of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene” with Andrés Henao Castro.

2017                 Conference Paper at AAG. Special Session: Infrastructures of the Urban South, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Boston, April 5-9. Conference Paper: “Heterogenous Infrastructure Configurations and the Conditions of Possibility for Radical Incrementalism” presented by Henrik Ernstson, co-authored M Lawhon, J Silver, D Nilsson, S Lwasa.

2017*                Invited Speaker at New York University. Lecture and screening of film “One Table Two Elephants” (von Heland and Ernstson; first cut version, 47 min,) at New York University, screening at Deutsches Haus in New York City, 3 April 2017. (70 people, mainly students.)

2017                 Invited Lecturer at University of Cape Town. Lecture at Department of Architecture, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 17 March 2017, “Stop calling me RESILIENT! On the origins and problems of the pervasive and depoliticizing discourse of resilience.”

2017*                Invited Speaker at University of Witwatersrand. Lecture at School of Geography, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 March 2017, “Interrupting the anthropo-obscene: To re-politicise our current human-nonhuman moment in proper political and egalitarian terms” (with Erik Swyngedouw) invited by Prof. Melanie Samson.

2016                 Organiser and Speaker. Lecture and organizer with Irma Allen and Daniele Valisena of a PhD Higher Seminar on “Emancipation in an Urban Century: From More-than-human Political Moments to the Figure of the Anthropo-ob(S)cene,” 12-13 October 2016 at KTH Division of History and KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. 12 participants, from KTH, Stockholm University, Södertörn University, Uppsala University and Konstfack (Stockholm School of Art and Design).

2016*                Invited Speaker at Rachel Carson Centre. Lecture and screening of film “One Table Two Elephants” (80 min, von Heland and Ernstson) at Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany, 28 September 2016. (25 people, scholars)

2016*                Invited Speaker at University of Rome. Lecture and screening of film “One Table Two Elephants” (80 min, von Heland and Ernstson) at Università Roma Tre (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione, Spettacolo), Rome, Italy, 23 September 2016. (20 people, students and scholars)

2016                 Organizer, Speaker, Facilitator of Annual PhD Seminar at University of Cape Town. Annual PhD seminar on “Democratic Practices of Unequal Geographies” this year focusing on “The Aesthetical and the Political of Unequal Geographies” reading across political philosophy and Southern urbanism, at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 4-8 July 2016. Organized by Henrik Ernstson and political philosopher Andrés Henao Castro. http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1417

2016*                Invited Speaker at Stellenbosch University. Lecture at the Higher Seminar of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 14 April 2016. Paper: “Towards a Situated Approach to Urban Political Ecology in a 'World of Cities'”.

2016*                Invited Speaker/Workshop organizer at NUST. Workshop: “Global South Urbanisms”, with architectural and urban planning students at the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST), Windhoek, Namibia, 22-23 March 2016, in collaboration with Phillip Lühl and Guillermo Delgado. Included field visits, text discussions and my open lecture: “Global South Urbanisms and Situated Ecologies”.

2015                 Public Film Screening with Discussion in Windhoek. Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST), Windhoek, Namibia, 22 March 2016. Film: “One Table Two Elephants: Ways Of Knowing Urban Natures (First Cut)” Direction & Production: Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. (41m00s) (40 people, students, scholars, activists and general public)

2015                 Conference Paper at PECS. Conference: Program of Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 3-5 November 2015. Paper: “Peripheral ecologies: an alternative epistemological and ontological ‘location’ for urban ecology”

2015                 Film Screening with Discussion in Stellenbosch. Conference: Program of Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS), Stellenbosch, South Africa,3-5 November 2015. Film: “One Table Two Elephants: Ways Of Knowing Urban Natures (First Cut)” Direction and Production: Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. (41m00s) (40 people, scholars)

2015*                Invited Speaker at Université Paris-Diderot. Higher Seminar Series, Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, 30 September 2015. Paper: “If I speak from Cape Town: What happens when ‘stewardship’ travels the world?” 

2015*                Organizer, Chair and Keynote Speaker in Stockholm. Conference and public lectures: Rupturing the Anthro-Obscene! The Political Promises of Planetary Urban Ecologies, organized through KTH at a theatre in Stockholm, Teater Reflex, 17-19 September 2015, 3 days of seminars, lectures and activist forums on political movements, urbanization and ecology. Organized by Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw, including leading scholars in urban political ecology, urban studies and political philosophy. http://anthro-obscene.situatedupe.net

2015                 Organizer Public Debate at theatre in Stockholm. Organized and facilitated a public debate with urban and housing activists at Teater Reflex in Stockholm focusing on the building of social and political urban movements, including a talk by Erik Swyngedouw on “Every Revolution Needs a Square”, 19 September 2015. http://anthro-obscene.situatedupe.net

2015                 Film Screening with Discussion at Tensions of Europe. Conference:Tensions of Europe (STS and history of technology confernece), KTH Stockholm, 3-7 September 2015. Film: “One Table Two Elephants: Ways Of Knowing Urban Natures (First Cut)” Direction & Production: Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. (41m00s) (15 people, scholars)

2015                 Organizer, Speaker, Facilitator of Annual PhD Seminar at University of Cape Town. First annual PhD seminar on “Democratic Practices of Unequal Geographies” sub-titled this year: “Political Theory Meets Global South Urbanism: Where is the Political?” At African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 27-31 July 2016. Organized by Henrik Ernstson and political philosopher Andrés Henao Castro. http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1417

2015*                Organizer, Chair & Keynote Speaker at University of Cape Town.Conference: The Cape Town Civil Society Conference: Let’s Discuss Our City’s Democracy! African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 6 June 2015. As part of engaging stakeholders in my project WOK-UE I have organized this conference with 80 participants from 50 civil society organizers, keynote speakers and break-out groups. Link: http://civnet.situatedupe.net

2015                 Invited Lecture at Stanford University. Seminar Series: CESTA Series—Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, USA, 12 May 2015. Title: “Urban Environments in Postapartheid Cape Town: Registers of Knowing and Mobilizing Structures”.

2015*                Organizer, Chair & Keynote Speaker at Stanford University.Conference: Urban Beyond Measure: Registering Urban Environments of the Global South, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, USA, 8-9 May 2015. Organizer of the conference with Jia-Ching Chen (Brown University). Talk: “Registers and the Beyond of Urban” Link: https://urbanbeyondmeasure.wordpress.com

2015                 Film Screening with Discussion at Stanford University. Conference: Urban Beyond Measure: Registering Urban Environments of the Global South, Stanford University, 8-9 May 2015. Film: “One Table Two Elephants: Ways Of Knowing Urban Natures (First Cut)” Direction & Production: Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. (41m00s) (45 people, scholars and students)

2015                 Invited Speaker at University of California-Berkeley. Workshop: Practicing Political Ecology: A Left Coast Workshop, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley, USA, 7 May 2015. Talk: “Situated Urban Political Ecologies: Thinking from the South”.

2015                 Invited Panelist at AAG. Conference Panel: Doing Situated Urban Political Ecology (SUPE): Reflections from the Field, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Chicago, April 21-25. Panel input 5 min and discussion.

2015                 Invited Panelist at AAG (SUPE). Conference Panel: The Changing Face of Environmentalism, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Chicago, April 21-25. Conference Paper: “Towards Situated Ecologies: Report from the Segregated Ecologies of Cape Town and New Orleans”, Henrik Ernstson and Joshua Lewis.

2015                 Conference Paper at AAG. Special Session: Cultural and Political Ecology, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Chicago, April 21-25. Conference Paper: “Tactical Symbioses: A Design Perspective of Material Agency and Political Ecology” presented by Henrik Ernstson, co-authored with Martín Ávila.

2015*                Keynote Plenary Speaker at University of Maryland. Conference: Urban Environmental Stewardship Conference, Behavioral & Social Sciences, University of Maryland, USA, 17 April 2015. Conference Paper: “If I speak from Cape Town: What happens when ‘stewardship’ travels the world?” http://bsos.umd.edu/event/urban-environmental

2015                 Invited Lecture at University of Maryland. Seminar Series at Socioenvironmental Synthesis Centre (SESYNC), University of Maryland, USA, April 21. Conference Paper: “Locality and Situatedness in Synthesizing Environmental Research: Preliminary Notes on the Politics of Synthesis Based on Urban Ecology Research in Cape Town”. 

2015                 Organizer, Chair, Film Script Writer at KTH. Roundtable and filming: Moving Closer To Nature: Roundtable with Bill Adams, Dan Brockington, Michael Adams and Henrik Ernstson, KTH, Stockholm, 26 February 2015. Filmproduction by Jacob von Heland & Henrik Ernstson. http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1403

2014*                Organizer, Chair and Keynote Speaker (SUPE) at University of Cape Town. Workshop: Radical Incrementalism & Theories/Practices of Emancipatory Change, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 23-24 October 2014. Organized by Henrik Ernstson, Jonathan Silver and Edgar Pieterse. Talk: “Radical Incrementalism as Political Imaginary: Elaborating Emancipatory Practices through Southern Cities”, Henrik Ernstson and Jonathan Silver. http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1281

2014                 Organizer of Workshop/PhD Seminar at University of Pretoria (SUPE). Workshop/PhD seminar: Urban Political Ecology in African Cities, University of Pretoria, Tswane, South Africa, 22-26 September 2014. Organized by Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon, Joe Pierce and Jonathan Silver (alphabetical order) with 20 participants, majority from/of African universities, funded by Antipode Foundation and Formas.  http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1313

2014*                Keynote Speaker at University of Washington. Conference: Annual Symposium for the University of Washington Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning 2013-14, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 5 May 2014. Conference Paper: “Situating Ecologies and Re-distributing Expertise: Re-thinking Urban Theory and Ecological Studies from a ‘World of Cities’”. http://depts.washington.edu/urbdpphd/symposium/symposium2014.html

2014                 Invited Speaker at Stanford University. Global Studies Seminar: Rapping and Youth Pedagogy to save the Princess Vlei Wetland in Cape Town: A conversation between South African hip-hop stalwart Emile Jansen and Stanford's Henrik Ernstson, Centre for African Studies, Stanford University, 7 April 2014. 

2014*                Invited Lecture at Portland State University. Seminar Series: ISS Seminar in Urban Planning, Portland State University, USA, 1 April 2014. Conference Paper: “Rethinking Urban Ecosystem Services: Theorizing the Ecology and Politics of Urbanization from Stockholm to Cape Town”. (Also lead a week long PhD workshop.) http://bit.ly/1HMdjth & http://bit.ly/1LIGNZF

2014*                Invited Lecture at University of Washington-Tacoma. Seminar Series: Urban Studies Visiting Lecture Series, University of Washington-Tacoma, 31 March 2015, invited by Dr. Lisa Hoffman. Conference Paper: “Grounding Urban Natures: Approaching Urban Political Ecologies in a “World of Cities” with Lessons from Cape Town”. http://bit.ly/1LPHvo5

2014                 Organized Special Session, Chair and Conference Paper at ASEH.Association of Environmental History (ASEH) Conference, San Francisco, 13-15 March 2014. Special session with S Sörlin on book project “Grounding Urban Natures” with 4 papers. Opening remarks and presented paper: “Tracing the Political: Reworking Urban Natures in Cape Town and Seattle” by Henrik Ernstson and Andrew Karvonen. http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/992

2014*                Invited Lecture at Stanford University. Seminar Series: Stanford Global Studies—Centre for African Studies Seminar, Stanford University, USA, 6 March 2014, invited by Jim Ferguson. Conference Paper: “Towards a Situated Approach to Urban Political Ecology in a ‘World of Cities’” http://bit.ly/1J27tHf

2014                 Organized Special Session, Chair and Conference Paper at DOPE (SUPE). Conference: Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE), Lexington 28 Feb - 2 March, 2014. Special session with M Lawhon & J Silver on “Pluralizing the Approaches to Urban Political Ecology in a ‘World of Cities’” with 10 papers. Presented Paper: “Provincializing Urban Political Ecology” H Ernstson, M Lawhon & J Silver, published in Antipode. [During 2014, we organized the same SUPE special session with 10 new papers at The RGS-IBG Annual International Geography Conference, London, August 2014]  http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/871

2013                 Invited Lecture at University of California-Davis. Seminar Series: Centre for Environmental Policy and Behavior, UC Davis, USA. Talk: “Environmental Collective Action in Cities of the Global South: The Cape Town Civic Network Study (CIVNET)”. Co-presented with Professor Mario Diani. Invited by Professor Marc Lubell. http://bit.ly/1BtOqh9

2013                 Conference Paper in Oslo. Transformation in a Changing Climate Conference, Oslo, 19-21 June  2013. Conference Paper: “Enfold :: Unfold—Tracing Socioecological Collective Action in Cape Town and New Orleans” by Henrik Ernstson and Joshua Lewis.

2013                 Organizer, Chair, Book Chapter at KTH (GUN). Workshop on edited book project with open seminars: Grounding Urban Natures—Traveling the World to Re-think Histories and Futures of Political Ecologies, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH, Stockholm, 12-14 June 2013. Organized by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin (editors of book). (Note: In parallel, I lead a week-long PhD course, see 4.2) http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/505

2013                 Organized Special Session and Chair at AAG. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference, Los Angeles, 9-12 April 2013. Organized special session with J Battersby on “Articulating Values in Urban Green Spaces” with 5 papers.

2013                 Conference Paper at AAG. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference, Los Angeles, 9-12 April 2013. Conference Paper (in other session than above): “Reworking Urban Natures through Empirical Case Studies in Cape Town” by H Ernstson, J Battersby, and M Graham. 

2012                 Organized Book Workshop at University of Cape Town (GUN). Workshop: Contested Urban Natures: Exploratory Seminar on a Book Project, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 17-18 October 2012. Organized by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin (editors of book). http://bit.ly/1PRZ1OQ

2012                 Conference Paper in Manchester. International Comparative Urban Retrofit Workshop: Purpose, Politics and Practices, 13-14 September 2012, Manchester, UK. Conference Paper: “Retrofit and Urbanized Ecosystems” Henrik Ernstson and Joshua Lewis.

2012                 Conference Paper at RGS-IBG. RGS-IBG Annual International Geography Conference, Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2012. Conference Paper: “Ways of Knowing Urban Natures in Post-apartheid Cape Town”.

2012                 Invited Speaker at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Invited by Professor Patrick Bond to give guest lecture at Centre for Civil Society, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal: Talk: “Ways of Knowing Urban Natures in Post-apartheid Cape Town”.

2012                 Invited Speaker at RXhodes University. Invited by Professor Tally Palmer: Talk (same as previous): “Ways of Knowing Urban Natures in Post-apartheid Cape Town”.

2011*                Invited Speaker in Phoenix. Resilience 2011 Conference, 11-16 March, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Invited to speak at session Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems. Conference Paper: “On Transformative Change and Urban Resilience: Lessons from Social-Ecological Research in Stockholm”

2011*                Invited Speaker in Phoenix. Resilience 2011 Conference, 11-16 March, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Invited speak at session “Integrated Social-Ecological Networks”. Paper: “Social-Ecological Network Analysis (iSENA): Four Approaches Towards Empirical Research”

2011*                Conference Papers [3] in Phoenix. Resilience 2011 Conference, 11-16 March, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Conference Papers (with co-auhtors): [1] “The Role of Informal Social Networks in Water Resources Governance: Berg River Catchment, South Africa” with N Mehtner; [2] “A Social Network Approach to Analyze Governance of Land, Water and Ecosystems: The Case of Mkindo Catchment, Tanzania” with C Stein, J Barron; [3] “Analyzing Ecosystem Governance in Human-dominated Landscapes: The Usefulness of a Social-Ecological Network Approach” with M Tengö, C Radimilahy, T Elmqvist.

2010*                Keynote Speaker at AESOP. AESOP Seminar on Urban Planning and Complexity,  Stockholm Resilience Centre, 5 March 2010. Paper: “Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-dominated Landscapes.”

2009                 Invited Speaker at University of Cape Town. Higher Seminar at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 10 October 2009. Paper: “Mobilizing Urban Natures and Value Articulation in Post-Apartheid Cape Town.”

2009                 Conference Paper at IDHP. IHDP Conference in Bonn, Germany, 26-30 April 2009. Conference paper: “Ecological scales and social network structure in urban landscapes: management and governance of urban ecosystem services in Stockholm”.

2009*                Keynote Speaker in Tucson. Marine Social Connectivity in the Gulf of California Workshop, 18-20 August 2009, Tucson, Arizona, USA: Paper: “Using Social Network Analysis in Social-Ecological Studies”.

2008*                Keynote Speaker in Stockholm. Resilience 2008 Conference, Stockholm, 14-17 April 2008. Paper: “Transformative Processes in Urban Landscapes: Towards a Framework that Incorporate Ecological Resilience and Social Justice”.
Profilbild av Henrik Ernstson