"𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐎𝐢𝐥?"
I was recently interviewed by @kgjengedal@snabelen.no for Norway's Forskerforum, as part of a great article she did on the topic of exnovation and its glaring absence from academic research priorities.
https://www.forskerforum.no/reportasje/professor-vil-ha-meir-forsking-pa-korleis-vi-kan-slutte-a-oydeleggje-verda/
In it, she also interviews the scholar who first introduced me to the topic, Jennie C. Stephens. In her words:
"There is a strong focus in academia on innovation and change through coming up with something new rather than achieving change by stopping something."
Where are the institutes for deconstructing oil rigs? For closing down pipelines? For dismantling capital? When do we get a research center on how to drive Shell, Equinor and Total into oblivion? A lab for experimental studies on undoing the fossil grip on our lives, and building something better in its stead?
These are exciting and important questions, and we will be delving into them next week at our study circle on "Abolishing the fossil regime", in Oslo, the oil capital of Europe. Hosted by the Nordic Summer University. We are bringing together scholars, change-makers and policy-makers from across Europe to figure out how to undo extractivist mentalities, spaces and institutions.
And if you're interested in the topic of exnovation, you can sign up for our next session, in July in Latvia, on "LowTech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good", which has just opened for registration!
https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/
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