30th September 2019
Field notes on the UN Climate Week in New York
‘UN Climate Week in New York City was incredibly challenging. I was invited to sit with leaders I admire from Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, and elsewhere. I learned firsthand about their losses, dislocations, and pain, all driven
23rd September 2019
Are We Having One or Two Capitalist Crises? Read the blISS blog
Are We Having One or Two Capitalist Crises? Mapping Social Reproduction in Capitalism by Maryse Helbert In June, a colloquium called ‘capital accumulation: Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies’ was organised for the 50th anniversary of the University of Paris
4th September 2019
How Do We Know The World Series: Knowing The World? Navigating Asymmetries of Power through a Politics and Praxis of Care
“How do we know the world?” It is a difficult and multi-layered question. Yet it enticed us, two colleagues, women from the global north and south respectively, to collaborate and reflect upon our journeys as researchers, activists and now as
29th August 2019
Posthumanism and posthuman knowledge
In her latest book, Posthuman Knowledge (2019), Professor Rosi Braidotti encourages us to see today’s all-too-common exhausted condition no longer as (only) a pathological state that needs to be cured. Instead she proposes that we ‘see the intensity of the
31st July 2019
Doing fieldwork on community gardens in Berlin
Community gardens in Berlin. Photo: Marlene Gomez In Berlin, community gardens are mainly abandoned plots that were saved by the inhabitants to transform them into gardens to grow vegetables and seasonal fruits for self-consumption. To me, what is interesting about
At the moment I am doing my secondment at SOPPECOM, an NGO based in Pune (India). SOPPECOM is committed to support the most disadvantaged and marginalized sections of the population – especially women, dalits, landless in the rural area of Maharashtra- promoting practices of sustainable use of land
30th June 2019
Enid Still on secondment in Pune, India
I have been on secondment at SOPPECOM in Pune, Maharashtra since the 30th of September 2019. The secondment has formed an essential part of my training and preparation for my fieldwork in India, which will take place in Chennai, Tamil
Ankita Shrestha has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and History from Paris-Sorbonne University and a postgraduate degree in South Asia and International Development from the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in the study of power relations that influence
Photo: WEGO Eoin Farrelly is a political scientist and peace scholar with research interests in climate change, food sovereignty, the transition to a post-growth economy, gender, masculinities and power. His PhD research will investigate the transformation of small-scale fishing communities in
Rob Snyder and Suzanne MacDonald at the Highland and Islands Enterprise, Scotland. Photo: Rob Snyder
30th May 2019
Strengthening communities
Suzanne MacDonald and Rob Snyder from Island Institute are presenting at “Strengthening Communities,” a conference in Aviemore hosted by the Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The Strengthening Communities Conference Scotland brings together people who are at the heart of community-led development.