06. Geographical Perspectives on Just and Sustainable Transitions
Sessions
Beyond crisis/Beyond normal
A social science and humanities conference on sustainability
Organized by NTNU Energy Team Society
27 and 28 September 2023 | DIGS (pdf), Trondheim |
Registration deadline: 15 August
Thematic sessions
The conference has the following thematic sessions:
Date: 27 September
Time: 13.30 - 15.00 and 15.30 - 17.00
Session I: 13.30 - 15.00
A challenge-oriented approach to regional skills ecosystems: illustrated by sustainable transitions in O&G specialized regions
Karlsen A., NTNU and Dawley S., Newcastle University
‘Network switching’ and the governance of the biogas economy – perspectives from Denmark
Hunt O., University of Copenhagen
Follow the crop: The AVC in Kenya and the agency of smallholders through digital technologies, Østhassel A., NTNU
The EU-support for the Swedish steel industry. How just is the just transition fund?
Joosse S., Johansson K., Förell N. and Fischer A., Division of Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Session II: 15.30 - 17.00
Pressured local governance spaces in Norwegian wind power procedures
Vasstrøm M., University of Agder
Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK oil
Bridge G., Durham University and Dodge A., NTNU
Justifying Mineral Extraction for Green Transitions
Kurniawan NI., Universitas Gadjah Mada and Rye SA., NTNU
Contested spatialities of ‘low-carbon transitions’: Sketching an ethnographic exploration
Ryfisch S. and Blicharska M., Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
Geographical Perspectives on Just and Sustainable Transitions: Reflections from a Social Anthropologist
Mason A., NTNU
Geographical perspectives are well positioned to explain the spatial configuration and scales by which various political and economic processes surrounding just and sustainable transitions are organized, in addition to highlighting the geographical differences related to the outcomes to the processes. Currently, geographers cover a broad range of topics where governance, innovation, and participation are discussed in relation to energy transitions and sustainable development. In this session we welcome papers that explore topics that occur at the nexus between politics, economy, and space with a focus on sustainability, just transitions, and societal inequalities.
Potential questions/topics can include, but are not limited to:
- Why does community participation in urban planning projects and natural resource management related to sustainable transitions differ widely across space?
- Why are the benefits and costs of societal transitions, such as the transition to a low-carbon economy, unevenly distributed across space?
- How is the global political economy of energy shifting and what are the implications for regional development and sustainability in different places?
- How are urban and regional development policies related to sustainable transitions mobilized and translated across space, what is their impact, and why do they become a subject of contestation?
Organizers
Just and Sustainable Transitions Research Group at the Department of Geography, NTNU
Contact: Alexander Dodge
Poster session
The conference will also have an open poster session where participants are invited to present any sustainability related social science and humanities research. Guidelines for poster and poster presentation (pdf).
Trans-local justice challenges of electric vehicle supply chains - Tensions and imaginaries of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg
Shifting geographies of decarbonization: Gas for me but not for thee?
The Role of Digitalization in Shaping a Sustainable Future for the Built environment
The sound of energy transitions. An ethnographic case.
The EU-support for the Swedish steel industry. How just is the just transition fund?
(Re)gaining Ecological Futures in Kochi, India - an immersive fieldwork experience
The rebound effect of shared-mobility in urban planning perspective: State of the art
Automated vehicle governance in Norway: process, object, or system?
Uncertainty as the new normal: Towards contextualised contrigency planning during unprecedented flooding in Wayanad, India
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the emergence of Knowledge-Intensive Social Entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil
Methylmercury in the Food Chain due to Global Ubiquitous Atmospheric Deposition from Coal Combustion
Handling Compounded uncertainty in spatial planning and humanitarian action in unexpected floods in wayananda, Kerala
Global sustainability impacts of offshore wind and solar PV diffusion
Food waste in the Danish wholesale sector: Empirical basis and suggested solutions
Building stakeholder coalitions in the sustainable transition of everyday consumption
Reducing food waste across the food supply chain requires novel cross-sectoral understandings of quality parameters
Playing, doing, thinking, arguing, working, walking: call for alternative format sessions
The conference will also allocate one timeslot for parallel sessions using alternative formats. We welcome workshops, activities, co-creation exercises, innovative discussions, brainstorming formats, and whatever other creative initiatives you can come up with.
Beyond crises/Beyond Normal acknowledges that grappling with the key challenges of our era requires creative engagement beyond standard knowledge production and sharing through academic presentations. We will therefore allocate one timeslot for parallel sessions using alternative formats.
We welcome workshops, activities, co-creation exercises, innovative discussions, brainstorming formats, and whatever other creative initiatives you can come up with. The only condition is that activities should be clearly engaging with or be relevant for researchers working on themes of sustainability, climate change, transitions, and energy from a social science or humanities perspective.
While we are open to any good idea that offers an alternative to the conventional panel of paper presentations, we suggest keeping to the following guidelines:
- The session should require little or no preparation from the audience/participants. People should be able to decide to join on the spot.
- The session's success should not depend on the number of participants. Design your session such that it can be successful with 5 persons as well as with 30.
- Allow for both active and passive participation. Allowing mere spectators is likely to be more inclusive as not everyone may want to be ‘on stage’. At the same time, of course make active participation as attractive as you can.
- The activity should be concluded in 90 minutes. Also, mind that the venue will not allow for extensive preparation of the rooms.
- Make clear whether you want this to be an academic exercise, or something that welcomes audience of any kind
- Have an idea for a side-event, an outdoors event, a field trip, an evening event, or any other activity? Do not hesitate to reach out, and we will happily discuss and help!
Describe your plan for the session in 200-300 words. Also describe specific needs for the session (but bear in mind that anything beyond a conference room with AV equipment might be difficult for us to arrange).
Alternative format sessions
The climate fresk workshop
SSH meets society
Tender Cartographies: Mapping felt experiences of place in transition times
Non-Violent Direct Action Training Session with Scientist Rebellion Trondheim
Imaginative and anticipatory co-creation for transformation – pros, cons and unknowns (collective sharing and brainstorming)
Identifying Sustainable Development Goal interlinkages: the case of solar photovoltaics
Organizing committee
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Kim-Andre Myhre Arntsen PhD Candidate
+4790867311 kim.a.m.arntsen@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Shaua Fui Chen PhD Candidate
+47-73559959 shaua.f.chen@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Zane Datava PhD student
+4794277524 zane.datava@ntnu.no -
Franziska Gehlmann PhD student
franziska.gehlmann@ntnu.no -
Sara Heidenreich Senior researcher
+47-73591779 sara.heidenreich@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture -
Sigurd Hilmo Lundheim
sigurd.h.lundheim@ntnu.no Department of Sociology and Political Science -
Tomas Moe Skjølsvold Professor of STS and Director of FME NTRANS
+47-73550189 +4793634270 tomas.skjolsvold@ntnu.no Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture