Frontiers of Hope

Wednesday 30 October 2024 14:15-15:30,
Hulda Garborgs hus,
HG N-106.

A Greenhouse Research Talk by Anders Riel Müller/Yeonjun Song, UiS

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Japanese settler women hoe soy in Manchuria (Manchukuo)

This talk will present ongoing work on the role of “frontiers” in the so-called green transition. Based on research in and around Stavanger and in collaboration with a colleague in Sweden this talk will discuss the affective dimensions of frontier tropes in green transition imaginaries. We are particularly interested in understanding how a colonial and imperial trope is intimately associated with hope (for someone and something) in the past and present.

Anders Riel Müller/Yeonjun Song (he/him) has a master’s degree in environmental planning and a PhD in global studies/international development studies. He is Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger. His work is mainly focused on the cultural political economy of food and energy in Scandinavia and East Asia.