Jonas Egmose

Roskilde University · Department of People and Technology (IMT)

In this chapter we are rethinking sustainability in a non-extractivist perspective. Whilst notions of sustainable development and green growth tend to reproduce dynamics of extractivism and mastery in human-nature relations, we analyze how practices based on care and reciprocity are pivotal to enable sustainable relations. To do so we build on a so...

De senere år har vi set en stigende opmærksomhed mod at fremme samspillet mellem videnskabelig viden og udviklingsprocesser i praksis. Anvendelsesorienteringen er på mange måder positiv, men stiller samtidig fornyede krav til forskningsmiljøerne om at forankre praksissamarbejder videnskabeligt. Med dette mål for øje, introducerer artiklen i et meto...

Finding ourselves in the midst of a plural eco-social crisis, this paper addresses roles and guiding questions for action research understanding, envisioning, practicing, and organising eco-social action, with the aim of renewing our human entanglements with the living ecologies, in which we are embedded. Driven by the aim of democratising eco-soci...

Diversification through agroecological principles may maintain and stabilize yields in an increasingly more unpredictable climate, including market price fluctuations, as well as preserve and enhance the threatened natural resource base and the environment. Based on a participatory interview process this article identifies the barriers encountered...

This paper provides an introduction to Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) as a methodology with a strong emphasis on combining critical analysis, imaginative thinking, and everyday life-based actions toward societal democratization. First, we situate CUAR in the light of current societal frameworks asking: Why the need of CUAR? We then briefly...

This study examined the adoption by farmers of reduced tillage practices in Danish conventional farming by means of observation and interviews with farmers involved in an experience exchange group. It identified why these farmers began reducing tillage, how they succeeded with it and what hindrances they encountered in the context of Danish convent...

How can action research further new research orientations towards sustainability? This book, empirically situated in the field of upstream public engagement, involving local residents, researchers and practitioners in bottom-up processes deliberating on urban sustainability, answers this question by analysing processes of social learning. The book...

A key strength of backcasting is arguably the emphasis it places upon envisaging longer-term distant futures, allowing participants and users to think beyond incremental changes in their current lived experience and to embrace the more radical and disruptive socio-technical changes which may be necessary to deliver sustainability. In so doing, howe...

9th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS): Knowledge, learning and action for sustainability. Workshop 6: Community engagement for sustainability. London, UK, 10 - 12 June 2009. As the effects of climate change is becoming increasingly visible scientific and technological development is often seen as a key component in political act...