The UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad will be joining “Rethinking Sustainability: Research Network for Global Environmental Humanities (ReSuRGEH)”, an international team of researchers and community partners from Canada, the US, the UK, South Africa, the Caribbean and India, including the acclaimed Brock Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Ecological Restoration Alliance (India).
The Network will pursue transdisciplinary solutions to human-induced climate change. It explores the co-creation of knowledge needed to develop innovative sustainability practices better attuned to decolonial community and ecological ‘resurgence’. It seeks a comparative approach combining the sciences, social sciences, and critical humanities to research the environmental impact of planetary histories of extractive capitalism, human exceptionalism, colonialism, gender, and race in pursuit of solutions to anthropogenic climate change in response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Its initial focus is on Six (6) international field sites with distinct landscapes and infrastructure bearing the legacies of colonialism in Canada, India, Barbados, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. The network’s research and knowledge mobilization activities include research symposiums, scholarly, policy, and public-facing publications, performances, and digital creations.
This collaboration continues the Chair’s outreach activities, and strengthens its contribution to the University of Hyderabad’s SDGs initiative, said Professor Pramod Nayar, the Chairholder.
More information on UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the University of Hyderabad is available at: https://ucvulnerabilitystudies.uohyd.ac.in/