Elsje Fourie writes column in Observant
Elsje Fourie has taken up the baton of occasional columnist for the Observant.
Her first contribution explains why she has started writing more creatively. It is titled ‘When it makes sense to be foolish’ and can be found here.
Lara Stammen & Miriam Meissner publish article in SMS
Miriam Meissner and FASoS student Lara Stammen have published an article entitled Social movements’ transformative climate change communication: extinction rebellion’s artivism in the journal Social Movement Studies. The article is based on Lara’s MA thesis research at FASoS.
In the article, Miriam and Lara discuss the art activism of the socio-environmental movement Extinction Rebellion Netherlands (XR NL).
Anna Harris publishes article with WUN collective
Anna Harris has recently published an article in medical education journal BMC Medical Education with collaborators on the WUN project on Health Humanities.
The article is entitled ‘InspirE5: a participatory, internationally informed framework for health humanities curricula in health professions education’, and seeks to offer guidance for implementing health humanities in universities.
You can find the article (and peer review reports) here.
Assem Dandashly publishes chapter on COVID-19 and MENA region
Assem Dandashly has published a new chapter on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the MENA region.
The chapter ‘Crisis and ceding of state sovereignty: the case of Lebanon and the COVID-19 Pandemic’ focuses on the case of Lebanon and engages with the literature on Risk Society. It is published on pages 176-194 in ‘Covid-19 and Risk society across the MENA region‘ edited by Larbi Sadiki and Leila Saleh, IB Tauris.
Article by Monica Vasile on history of recovering European Bison
Monica Vasile, PhD candidate in the project group ‘Moving Animals’, has published an open access article titled ‘From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison‘, in the journal Environment and History.
Click here for the accompanying blog.
Edited Volume: Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage
In the series ‘Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market’, initiated by MACCH, the volume ‘Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning Through and from Collaboration‘ edited by Christoph Rausch, Ruth Benschop, Emilie Sitzia and Vivian van Saaze, analyses participatory practices to determine what can be learned through and from collaboration across disciplinary borders.
Farsan Ghassim publishes chapters in book on Global Governance
Farsan Ghassim published three chapters in the new book ‘Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance‘, published by Oxford University Press and edited by Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson, and Anders Uhlin.
In his chapters, Farsan and colleagues develop a theoretical framework to analyse the (de)legitimation of global governance institutions, analyse such (de)legitimation on Twitter, and through international survey experiments.
Christian Ernsten contributes to White Paper
Christian Ernsten contributed to the “International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change White Paper III: The role of cultural and natural heritage for climate action published by UNESCO, ICOMOS and the IPCC”.
Click here to read the White Paper.
Louis van den Hengel publishes chapter on queer ecology and art
Louis van den Hengel has contributed the chapter “Queer Ecologies of Love: Ecosexuality and the Politics of Nonhuman Desire” to The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture, edited by professor Emma Rees.
The book is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, sociology, and more.
Anna Harris writes column in Observant
Anna Harris, associate professor department of Society Studies, has written a column about a summer writing retreat which was published last week in the Observant.
Read the column titled ‘Writing with Insects’ here.