Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Anthropocene: Ethical, Green, Inclusive Nov 17-19
Schreurs, Miranda
Hello Gep-eders,
Tonight I am flying to Barcelona as I will for the next three days be moderating the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Council (EEAC) annual conference on the theme, Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Anthropocene: Ethical, Green, Inclusive. As vice-chair of the EEAC, I am happy to invite you all! (See attachment if you are interested)
The program for the EEAC event is here: https://eeac.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/01_11_2021-EEAC-AC-Programme.pdf
If you or any of your students would also like to attend this event, you are most welcome but you do have to register: https://mailchi.mp/be743ffa1a1a/eeac-annual-conferencedigital-transformation-for-a-sustainable-anthropocene-17-19-nov?e=801042cf8b
Best, Miranda Schreurs
Buscher, Bram
Dear Miranda,
Thanks for this alert: these are critical discussions. Apologies for the self-promotion, but my recent book is precisely on this topic and may be of interest?
The Truth About Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism
University of California Press, 2021
How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide—but what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous?
The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors as they turn to the internet to save nature. It documents how conservation efforts are transformed through the political economy of platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. Developing a novel account of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism, Bram Büscher shows how environmental actors attempt to mediate between structural forms of platform power and the contingent histories and contexts of particular environmental issues. Bringing efforts at wildlife protection in Southern Africa into dialogue with a sweeping analysis of truth and power in the twenty-first century, Büscher makes the case for a new environmental politics: one that radically reignites the art of speaking truth to power.
More info: https://truthaboutnature.com/
Good luck with the meeting, and best wishes,
Bram Büscher
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Prof. Dr. Bram Büscher
Professor and chair, sociology of development and change, Wageningen University & Research
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies - University of Johannesburg
Research Associate, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University
De Leeuwenborch, Hollandseweg 1, 6707 KN Wageningen, Netherlands.
T: +31317482015 E: bram.b...@wur.nl.
I: http://brambuscher.com / https://convivialconservation.com/ / https://truthaboutnature.com/
Senior editor Conservation & Society: please consider submitting a paper! See: https://conservationandsociety.org.in/
New books: The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene (Verso, 2020, with Robert Fletcher); The Truth about Nature. Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism (University of California Press, 2021)
For recent publications, see: https://brambuscher.com/articles/ and https://brambuscher.com/books
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