This is where you will find all the information about the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, such as the Thematic Lines, ongoing Exploratory Projects and much more!
If you work for an outlet or publication that’s pulling together an end-of-year book list, I’d love to get you a review copy of #OilBeach for consideration. Let me know! 🛢️ 🏖️ 📙
🏅 We end the week by congratulating José Miguel Ferreira, whose doctoral thesis received an Honourable Mention in the 32nd edition of the Victor Sá Prize for Contemporary History, awarded by the Cultural Council of the University of Minho. 🥳
Next week's @universityofgalway history research seminar features Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh on 'Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration'. In-person in Room G010, Hardiman Building, at 4.00pm, 8 November. For the Zoom link, register at https://forms.office.com/e/Ezy9tXU45H
Thank you #PublicBooks & Ryan Boyd for this very thoughtful review of #OilBeach!! So honored 😊
"[Dunbar-Hester] makes no promises about the future, and she is not in the business of bromides. But when your economic system is suicidal—when the ordinary business of procuring goods and services is boiling the planet to death—there is no better basis for that than hopeful solidarity, and no option but action"
"However, she does offer glimpses of sustainable, just futures.
All of them are coalitional and collective, and they entail seeing the Southern #California Bight as a contentious, multiplicative, ongoing site of struggle."
I'm looking for literature on the relationship between concepts of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' and local practices in the Global South and/or indigenous communities in the Global North (e.g. First Nations).
Specifically, I'd like to know how 'sustainability' is defined; what forms of knowledge are privileged; and how local practices are described by outsiders (& vice versa).
Am Internationalen Tag gegen Luftverschmutzung verweisen wir auf unsere aktuelle #WerkstattGeschichte 87/2023 "reizende gerüche"; im Thementeil, hg. v. Benjamin Brendel, geht es im Kontext der Geschichte kultureller & sozialer Konstruktion olfaktorischer Wahrnehmungen u.a. auch um #Geruchsbelästigung durch #Luftverschmutzung: