Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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A Critical Moment for Global Change: Ethnographers Acting on Climate and Sustainability

A Critical Moment for Global Change: Ethnographers Acting on Climate and Sustainability

Ethnography has grown, like many other industries, in tandem with a fossil fuel economy. As evidence of weather, resource and species disruption surround us on a daily basis, the climate sessions provided guideposts and practical resources to adjust and thrive as informed, climate-conscious...

The Climate Crisis as Learning Space

The Climate Crisis as Learning Space

It is becoming widely accepted that the climate crisis is a multiscale breakdown of interrelated ecological systems, caused by behavioural patterns that are unsustainable. As behaviours are largely informed by ideologies and as the latter are passed on by education, we submit that the climate...

Sustainability: Addressing Global Issues At A Human Scale

Sustainability: Addressing Global Issues At A Human Scale

Our tiny provocation is that the word “sustainability” is not sustainable. Just using it is sabotaging our efforts to build a better future for the planet. Despite decades of global sustainability discourse, the world is still going to hell. What's gone wrong? Our paper is about willful ignorance...