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A Hero's Journey to Systemic Change: Developing Expertise in Agricultural Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experts in rural development and agrarian change wield considerable influence over programme design and delivery, directing resources and shaping trajectories towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet the pathways through which such expertise develops remain under‐examined. This study examines the journey to expertise among experts
Kirt Hainzer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous Relational Thought and Climate Crisis Response: Rethinking Human‐Environment Relations Beyond Technocratic Governance

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is frequently framed as a technical problem of emissions, risk, finance, adaptation planning, and institutional coordination. This critical integrative review, supported by scoping‐informed searching and transparent eligibility and synthesis procedures, examines how selected Indigenous relational literatures can deepen climate ...
Jacob Kwakye, Basin Nawai Sumaila
wiley   +1 more source

Gaia Theory and the Anthropocene: Radical Contingency in the Posthuman Future

open access: yesSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2019
Good readings of the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock understand the theory as positing multiple, interlocking Earth systems, characterized by rapidly-changing feedback loops, in a way that is harmonious both with Darwinian evolution and contemporary ...
D. B. Dillard-Wright
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Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
wiley   +1 more source

Universities and institutionalization of regional innovation policy in peripheral regions: Insights from the smart specialization in Portugal

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Regional innovation policies are currently influenced by a series of territorial innovation models, with the regional innovation system (RIS) approach being one of the prominent examples. The rationale of smart specialization strategies (S3s) is deeply influenced by the RIS concept and highlights the importance of entrepreneurial discovery and
Hugo Pinto
wiley   +1 more source

The Whole World is Becoming Science Studies: Fadhila Mazanderani Talks with Bruno Latour

open access: yes, 2018
How to survive in this forest? How to keep it alive? Latour poses these questions in relation to the current global ecological crisis; but they are equally apt when applied to the “forest”––or to use Latour’s own metaphor, “biodiversity”––of STS.
FADHILA MAZANDERAN, Bruno Latour
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«¡No calcularás!» o cómo simetrizar el don y el capital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Este texto se publicó originalmente como Callon, Michel y Latour, Bruno (1997). "Tu ne calculeras pas!" ou comment symétriser le don et le capital. Revue du MAUSS, 9, 45-70. En sus páginas, los autores ofrecen una mirada completamente inesperada sobre lo
Bruno Latour   +3 more
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Intervista a Bruno Latour

open access: yesQuaderni di Sociologia, 2018
Bruno Latour is a renowned author whose works have influenced all branches of social sciences in the last thirty years. After his path-breaking ethnographies of scientific laboratories and the development, alongside M.
Nicola Manghi
doaj   +1 more source

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