By Bram Büscher and Han Wiskerke Dutch farmers have worked extremely hard to keep themselves afloat in an unsustainable farming system. This self-defeating success is now at its end. Farmers should get support and realistic options to shift to a sustainable system. And science and politics must draw lessons from this for the even greater […]

Friday, 2 December 13:30 – 15:00 Linda Yevoo (SDC) | Maternal and newborn clinical decision-making in context. Linda’s research is part of the project on maternal and newborn health care in Ghana, an NWO funded programme to investigate the cause of maternal and newborn deaths in a hospital setting in Ghana. More info. Tuesday, 6 […]

Elective course:  Resistance, Power & Movements (SDC53806) What is an effective movement? How do you feel about activism?  Do you want to learn tools on how to be politically relevant? Do you want to join a course that seeks to create a space to explore and reflect on agency and power with a focus on combining […]

In October, four of our CSPS PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertation. We are so very proud of them. congratulations to all! Two questions to dr. Tara Ruttenberg and dr. Rodrigo Alves Rolo about their experience as a PhD researcher at WUR. dr. Tara Ruttenberg (SDC) | Decolonizing Surf Tourism: Alternatives to Development, Surfer Subjectivity and […]

Drawing your attention to a new free choice course starting in P6 this academic year – RSO58806 Beyond Sustainability: Theorizing Post- & Anti-Capitalist Food Futures The course is co-taught by RSO (Mark Vicol and Oona Morrow), GEO (Chizu Sato) and SDC (Lerato Thakholi) staff. The focus of the course is a deep dive into radical […]

Political ecology@WUR invites you to a double book presentation 17th of November: Endangered species conservation: Illegal trafficking, security and transnational networks – a political ecology perspective Prof. Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) will present her book, “Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade”, Yale University Press Dr. Annah Lake Zhu (WUR, ENP) […]

“I’m a cultural geographer with American and Portuguese citizenship, and I’ve studied and worked all my adult life – more than 20 years – in various parts of Europe and Southeast Asia on migration, care and citizenship. As a critical social scientist, woman and immigrant myself, I bring my concern about how differently mobile people’s […]

In order to prevent the economically homeless from falling deeper into misery, a possible solution is to temporarily accommodate these people, for example in available hotel rooms. This emerges from a report by Wageningen University & Research, commissioned by social organisation De Regenboog Groep in Amsterdam. Economically homeless is the term for the group of […]

Registration Click here: Registration page Introduction This PhD course gives participants an opportunity to intensively engage with some of the major foundational movements in critical social theory, so that they can continue to explore contemporary expansions of those movements in their own research. It is organized as an intensive discussion seminar over the course of […]

Dear colleagues, From next Thursday onwards we are organising four bi-weekly events on peatlands in cooperation with the World Soil Museum. These events, which are held online (broadcasted live from the museum), are part of the artist-in-residency of Kate Foster at the museum. They feature a wide variety of topics and new results from the […]