11 March 2021, 13:30-15:30 h (CET)

We are pleased to announce the first event of?a new DFF/FKK-funded network titled “The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities: Transformative engagements between academia and civil society.” The network is a collaboration across Roskilde, Aalborg, and Aarhus universities and will include a number of activities over the next 3 years. For more information about the overall network, please see the further description below.

We will launch the network?on 11 March from 13:30-15:30?with a brief presentation of upcoming plans and ways to get involved, along with an opening discussion about activist-academic interfaces sparked by two readings. We welcome anyone who is interested to join in the event.

The readings are:

1) Martinez-Alier, Joan, Isabelle Anguelovski, Patrick Bond, Daniela Del Bene, Federico Demaria, Julien-Francois Gerber, Lucie Greyl et al. "Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations."?Journal of Political Ecology?21, no. 1 (2014): 19-60.?Available as open-access pdf here:?https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/1890/

The above article explores how activist-developed concepts have become essential to scholarship around environmental justice and ecological sustainability; it provides both an overview of central concepts and raises questions about how academic research is productively shaped by the work and analytical approaches of activists.

2) Maxey, Ian. “Beyond Boundaries? Activism, Academia, Reflexivity and Research.”?Area?31, no. 3 (1999): 199–208.?https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.1999.tb00084.x.?This text is available here ( restricted access/library access):?https://bit.ly/3sNf6e9

We hope this article, which was written more than 20 year ago, might spark both general discussion about the academic-activist interface and raise the question about how the debates about this interface have and have not changed in the past two decades. 

If you’d like to attend, sign-up for the Zoom link here: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Aufu-hpjspG927XgNLJnQcjkBZeNbIRKXk

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

If you are unable to join this first event, due to the regrettably short notice, we heartily welcome you to the second reading group on 16 April 2021 from 13:30-15:30, as well as to the network’s first workshop on 25 May 2021 from 10:30 to 15:30 (both online). Mark those dates in your calendar with registration information to come soon.