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.

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Contact

Lone Riisgaard, associate professor, Roskilde University, loner@ruc.dk

Jacob Rasmussen, associate professor, Roskilde University, jacobra@ruc.dk

Researchers

Lone Riisgaard, associate professor,tor, Roskilde University

Jacob Rasmussen, associate professor,, Roskilde University

Peter Nielsen, associate professor,, Roskilde University

Emilia Teresa Lewartowska, PhD student, Roskilde 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), 2024
Research 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 2024
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
SECO (socio-economic research center) Networking Seminar
Lewartowska, E. T. (Participant)
30 Aug 2024
Activity: 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 2024
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution