The current anthropocentric, growth-oriented, extractivist, and colonial development fuels the climate catastrophe and large-scale ecological crises. What alternative future pathways for social-ecological transformation can we envision? How can these futures be enacted by organizing on the ground? And what hope is there for small bottom-up initiatives to spark wider societal change?
Welcome to this panel discussion on social-ecological justice and what it means for our relationship with work and the land. A much-needed discussion in these dark times.
About the panel
- Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen is Associate Research Professor and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke. She is a Docent in global environmental justice at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. In her work she applies political ecology, decolonial and degrowth lenses to explore socioecological justice and sustainability transformations.
- Eeva Houtbeckers is a UEF fellow in School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland, and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in sustainable entrepreneurship, University of Helsinki. Their research focuses on the paradigmatic shifts in understanding and practicing economies, work, and livelihoods during sustainability transformations.
- Galina Kallio is an environmental social scientist at the Ruralia Instute, University of Helsinki, with a background in critical organization studies. Her research focuses on community food economies, landscape relations, peasant livelihoods and invisible work in diversified, regenerative and smallholding farming.
The webinar is part of the PhD course “Critical Perspectives on Green Transitions and Organizing Alternatives” organized by Hanken School of Economics and Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics and with support from the Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) and Umeå Transformation Research Initiative (UTRI).
