“I worry sometimes that the idea of ‘sustainable development’ has come to signify an innocent universalism, obscuring the history of colonialism and resource extraction that has produced the environmental crisis we are currently experiencing. The way we think about sustainability needs to go beyond science, social science, and scientific approaches to include a greater understanding of the cultural contexts that have led us toward the Anthropocene.”
- Jill Didur, Greenwatch Interviews
Our core goal is to strengthen our institutions and partners’ capacities to respond to the complexity of sustainability issues through better understanding of the relation between planetary health and human well-being in terms of habitability. To do this we will: 1) integrate comparative transdisciplinary global environmental humanities approaches within sustainability research and policy for more effective responses to the SDGs; 2) document the link between the uneven effects of anthropogenic climate change and planetary histories of extractive capitalism, human exceptionalism, colonialism, race and gender; 3) design six unique field intensives to learn from diverse material archives shaped by the spatiotemporal dimensions of human-induced climate change; 4) coproduce sustainability solutions with researchers and collaborators in and from local communities; 5) Strengthen cross-regional collaboration and knowledge exchange among environmental humanities scholars, HQP and students with policy forums, conservation organizations, museums, and local communities working to solve the problems highlighted by the SDGs; 6) build capacity in a diverse global cohort of HQP who will participate in field intensives, conferences, and learn with team mentors and local community partners; 7) and host biennial hybrid workshops at partner institutions to provide policy alternatives to UNFCCC decisions and documents.
The ReSuRGEH partnership mobilizes a diverse transdisciplinary group of experts and institutions from the Global North-South-South that prioritize underrepresented approaches to sustainability studies and solutions to human-induced climate change. Our partnership includes established and early career researchers, environmental humanities research centres, conservation organizations, community groups, museums, publishers and policy makers dedicated to devising inclusive and equitable solutions to the SDGs.
This project is supported through a 7-year SSHRC Partnership Grant.
Applicant:
Jill Didur; Concordia University Co-applicant: Amit Baishya; University of Oklahoma Andil Gosine; York University Angélique Willkie; Concordia University Anne Pasek; Trent University Cynthia Quarrie; Concordia University Derek Woods; McMaster University Elizabeth DeLoughrey; University of California, Los Angeles Francine McCarthy; Brock University Gage Diabo; Concordia University Jean-Thomas Tremblay; York University Jesse Arseneault; Concordia University Joni Adamson; Arizona State University Jordan Kinder; New York University Kathryn Yusoff; Queen Mary, University of London Kregg Hetherington; Concordia University Lesley Green; University of Cape Town Nalini Mohabir; Concordia University Philip Aghoghovwia; Kwantlen Polytechnic University Susie O'Brien; McMaster University Collaborator: Adam Dickinson; Brock University Alexander Phillips; Ashoka University Alice Jarry; Concordia University Alison Donnell; University of Bristol Alissandra Cummins; Barbados Museum and Historical Society Anatole Tchikine; Dumbarton Oaks Annu Jalais; Krea University Anthony Gomez; University of Oklahoma Arjun Singh; Ecological Restoration Alliance Brenna Bartley; Conservation Halton Catherine Tammaro; Tammaro Art Design Christine Daigle; Brock University Damon Matthews; Concordia University David Goldblum; Brock University Hugo Canham; University of South Africa Julia Baird; Brock University Kevin Turner; Brock University Liette Vasseur; Brock University Mark Nesbitt; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Michael Hrebeniak; New School of the Anthropocene Miranda Smitheram; Concordia University Natalie McGuire; Barbados Museum and Historical Society Pradip Krishen; No Institutional Affiliation Pramod Nayar; University of Hyderabad Raphaelle Aubin; Les Amis du Champ des Possibles Ravi Agarwal; No Institutional Affiliation Ryan Van Huijstee; Concordia University Press Sharon Willoughby; Diocese of Truro Sita Reddy; No Institutional Affiliation Soren Brothers; University of Toronto Stephanie Rutherford; Trent University Sugirthini Selliah; Les Amis du Champ des Possibles Sumana Roy; Ashoka University VK Preston; Concordia University Yota Batsaki; Dumbarton Oaks Partner Arizona State University; TEMPE AZ Ashoka University; India Barbados Museum and Historical Society; Barbados Brock University; ST. CATHARINES ON Concordia University Press; MONTRÉAL QC Conservation Halton; BURLINGTON ON Dumbarton Oaks; WASHINGTON DC Ecological Restoration Alliance; India Future Earth; MONTRÉAL QC Les Amis du Champ des Possibles; MONTRÉAL QC McMaster University; HAMILTON ON New School of the Anthropocene; United Kingdom Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; United Kingdom Royal Ontario Museum; TORONTO ON Toxics Link; India Trent University; PETERBOROUGH ON University of Cape Town; South Africa York University; TORONTO ON