Virtual Exhibition
Roger Norum is the Project Coordinator of the Marie-Curie Actions Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe Innovative Training Network (ENHANCE ITN). He holds a BA in Arabic and Turkish from Cornell University and M.Phil and D.Phil degrees in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is currently a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. He can be reached at Roger.Norum@oulu.fi.
Anna S. Antonova is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow with the ENHANCE innovative training network at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. Her research brings together humanities and social science approaches to examine how societal relations with and within coastal landscapes evolve over time, especially under pressure from global environmental, political, and economic changes. Her doctoral research at the University of Leeds examined transformations, crises, and contestations in narratives about environment and society on two European coasts, the Bulgarian Black Sea and the Yorkshire North Sea. She has previously worked on the external dimension of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy.
Jonathan Carruthers Jones is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Research Fellow and a research associate with the Wildland Research Institute (WRi) at the University of Leeds. Jonathan’s research focuses on understanding the complex issues which surround how humans and nature interact in wild spaces and how this relates to the long-term success of nature conservation. He explores how we can improve decision-making on the protection of wild spaces and species within the remote and mountainous areas of Europe using a range of participatory tools, visual methods, and integrated in-situ mapping methods. His research sites are in the Scottish Highlands, the French Pyrenees, and the Swedish and Finnish Arctic.
Claire Lagier is a doctoral student at the Rachel Carson Center at the LMU Munich. Her doctoral research, funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN fellowship ENHANCE (2015–2018), investigates how agroecology has gained legitimacy within a Brazilian social movement advocating for land reform, the Landless Movement (MST), whose leadership has been advocating for ecological production methods since the early 2000s. She has six years of experience teaching about and investigating Brazilian agro-environmental politics and social movements. She has worked for GRAIN, the research network which coined and investigates the phenomenon known as land grabbing, and is an editor for the online magazine Uneven Earth, which strives to bring insights from political ecology, environmental justice, and degrowth to the public in an accessible manner. Claire has a bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Political Science from Université de Montréal (2011) and a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Université du Québec à Montréal (2014). In 2018, she was a visiting scholar at KTH Stockholm’s Environmental Humanities Laboratory.
Vikas Lakhani is a doctoral candidate at the Rachel Carson Center at the LMU Munich. His doctoral project, funded by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN fellowship ENHANCE (2015–2018), investigates how the memory of disasters shape risk perceptions, collective action, institutional response, and decision-making. His work focuses on Machhu Dam failure (1979) and Bhuj Earthquake (2001) in Gujarat, India. Before starting his doctoral research, Vikas worked with the Hiroshima University, Government of Gujarat, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences on the issues of urbanization in developing economies, policies, and planning of disaster management, and post-disaster recovery projects. Vikas has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from the M.S. University of Baroda (2006) and a Master’s degree in Disaster Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2009). In 2018, Vikas was a visiting scholar at the University of Leeds (UK) and the University of Stavanger (Norway).
Jeroen Oomen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Urban Futures Studio, at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. His research interests include the socio-technological creation of futures, climate, and collective imaginations. He completed his PhD at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, LMU Munich, as part of the Marie Curie ITN ENHANCE. His PhD thesis, “Dreaming the Designer Climate,” analyzed the sociotechnical development of climate engineering research in Germany and the United States.
Jesse D. Peterson is a PhD candidate at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 11428 Sweden. Email: jessep@kth.se. He has an MSc in Environmental Humanities (U of U 2013) and an MFA in Creative Writing (UNLV 2010). He is part of ENHANCE, the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, the posthumanities hub and helped found the literary arts journal saltfront. His research interests include exploring socio-natures of waste, ecology, and culture as well as practicing methods of creative scholarship. His publications include both academic and creative outputs and can be found in Green Letters, The Discourses of Environmental Collapse, Geohumanities, Terrain.org, and elsewhere.
Adam Sébire studied filmmaking in Sydney and Havana, going on to direct documentaries for Australian television. In 2003 a film shoot about sea level rise on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tuvalu began to focus his work on the early effects of climate change. But, how to show a process largely imperceptible to our senses, in which effects are displaced from their causes both in time and space? To this end, Adam is undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of New South Wales. He uses video polyptychs—multi-screen video art—to rethink our aesthetic visual representation of (and engagement with) climate change.
Sarah Elizabeth Yoho is an environmental anthropology PhD candidate at the University of Leeds who works within the environmental humanities research space. Her particular research focus is on modes of human and environmental resilience in Italian coastal communities. As part of her work, she has logged countless hours learning about the art of dry stone walling through involvement in community rock wall building projects.
Communicating global environmental issues in new and exciting ways can lead to a better public understanding of academic research. The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) present their interdisciplinary projects through short, immersive videos, accompanied by analytical contextualization. These six 360º videos and one multiple-screen video triptych, shot in different countries and ecosystems, aim to bring people closer to an in situ experience of global environments, their complexities, and our relationship to them.
