Funding
The project "Producing alternative green futures" is financed by a 5.6 mio DKK grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Research Project Producing alternative green futures: Exploring interconnections between green transitions and socioeconomic and political organization
Project Duration: 09/01/2022 - 08/31/2026
Dominant ideas about green transitions within our policy and knowledge institutions are constrained by mainstream development models premised on mass-production and consumption and remain unconnected to our socioeconomic and political models.
This project produces new empirical and conceptual knowledge about alternatives and innovation beyond mainstream ideas by comparing cases in India, South Africa and Denmark. The cases share a holistic understanding of links between environmental sustainability and more participatory democratic modes of socioeconomic and political organizing. Conceptualising such links, we produce knowledge which disrupts taken for granted assumptions about green transitions and stimulates our ability to imagine other pathways. The cases display varying degrees of breaks and continuities with mainstream modes of socio-economic and political life and enable knowledge about how green transitions might presuppose different socioeconomic and political organizing.
This project produces new empirical and conceptual knowledge about alternatives and innovation beyond mainstream ideas by comparing cases in India, South Africa and Denmark. The cases share a holistic understanding of links between environmental sustainability and more participatory democratic modes of socioeconomic and political organizing. Conceptualising such links, we produce knowledge which disrupts taken for granted assumptions about green transitions and stimulates our ability to imagine other pathways. The cases display varying degrees of breaks and continuities with mainstream modes of socio-economic and political life and enable knowledge about how green transitions might presuppose different socioeconomic and political organizing.
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Contact
Lone Riisgaard, associate professor, 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University, loner@ruc.dk
Jacob Rasmussen, associate professor, 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University, jacobra@ruc.dk
兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端s
Lone Riisgaard, associate professor,tor, 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
Jacob Rasmussen, associate professor,, 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
Peter Nielsen, associate professor,, 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
Emilia Teresa Lewartowska, PhD student, 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
Michelle Williams, professor, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Charles Simane, researcher and organiser, Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ashish Khotari, Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, India
Publications
Sangham Sisters: Empowerment for Ecological Justice
Lewartowska, E. T. (Other), 2024Research output: Non-textual form ? Sound/Visual production (digital) ? Communication
Scaling out a pluriversality of alternative futures: The case of Vikalp Sangam
Lewartowska, E. T. & Riisgaard, L., 17 Nov 2024, Indien : Radical Ecological Democracy.Research output: Other contribution ? Net publication - Internet publication ? Research
What Is a “Development” Research Project? Transforming Ideas of Development through Development Research
Olwig, M. F., Rasmussen, J., Riisgaard, L., Noe, C., Khanduja, G., Taylor, P., Hambati, H., Richey, L. A., Büscher, C. & Minoia, P., 13 Sept 2023, Bonn : The EADI Blog.Research output: Other contribution ? Net publication - Internet publication ? Communication
Activities
Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons
Lewartowska, E. T. (Participant)
13 Nov 2024 → 15 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event ? Organisation and participation in conference
SECO (socio-economic research center) Networking Seminar
Lewartowska, E. T. (Participant)
30 Aug 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event ? Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Political Ecology Network conference (POLLEN24)
Rasmussen, J. (Speaker)
10 Jun 2024 → 12 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation ? Lecture and oral contribution
Press-media
Danske forskere vil l?se klimakrisen ved at tage v?kst ud af ligningen
08/11/2021 → 09/11/2021
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Partners
Base at 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
The centre is based at the Department of Social Sciences and Business
Participating research units: International Development Research Group // Socio-Economic Research Center
PhD-School: Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business - International studies
Relevant degree programs: Global and Development Studies // International 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 in Social Sciences
Research from 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
More Information
Find additional information about the project: Producing alternative green futures:
Project website at the 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University Research Portal
Contact
Lone Riisgaard
Associate professor
Phone +45 4674 2959
loner@ruc.dk
Jacob Rasmussen
Associate professor
Phone +45 4674 3933
jacobra@ruc.dk