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19 November 2018
MSJ series: thinking and enacting justice in a multispecies world
The Multispecies Justice blog series features content from researchers in the FASS Strategic Research Program Project called ‘Developing the field of Multispecies Justice’. The first blog post in the series by project lead Danielle Celermajer explores what motivates FASS’s new research theme on Multispecies Justice.
04 October 2018
Coral futures: finding a compromise
Earlier this year, Australia Research Council’s Coral Reef Futures Symposium (July 18-19) was a chance for coral scientists and researchers from a variety of disciplines to meet, present their current research, and discuss future avenues. There was a curious atmosphere in the darkened auditorium at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art, a sense of determination diffused by tentative hope.
21 December 2018
SEI farewell Co-Director Iain McCalman
The Sydney Environment Institute farewells co-director Iain McCalman, who has announced his well-deserved retirement after a truly remarkable academic career.
13 March 2019
The people vs. oil: the extraordinary risks of deep-sea drilling in the Great Australian Bight
Brett Morgan on why we should be deeply and urgently invested in protecting the future of Australia’s Great Southern Reef.
05 March 2019
Making space: feeling the anthropocene
Ahead of the March 6 launch of our Making Space Series, Astrida Neimanis explores the tension between our messy, irrational and emotional bodies and the immense scale of the Anthropocene, and asks how we can make space to sense, smell, taste, learn and feel our way into troubled times.
30 January 2019
Working under pressure: social justice, employment and equality in a time of environmental crisis
SEI speaks to research affiliate Dr Frances Flanagan ahead of her keynote presentation next month at the inaugural Iain McCalman Lecture next month.
31 January 2019
MSJ series: beyond the human: imagining the future of justice
Dr Dinesh Wadiwel, co-convenor of the Human Animal Research Network, kicks off the SEI Multispecies Justice blog series by asking how we can move from anthropocentrism to true social justice.
08 April 2019
MSJ series: guessing at depth
SEI Postdoc Fellow Killian Quigley unravels the asymptotic nature of artistic practice, and asks whether diving into new aesthetic and poetic spaces can help us to transcend our anthropocentric ethics of care.
12 April 2019
Great white lies: sharks and the dangers of media sensationalism
Christopher Pepin-Neff sinks his teeth into false media narratives surrounding shark bites, and says that the real danger isn’t the sharks, but the emotion-fuelled policies that follow.
10 April 2019
The struggle of climate-induced statelessness
Addressing rising sea levels doesn’t just mean redrawing the lines of nations. SEI intern Giacomo Ranalli investigates the concerning gap in international law regarding changes in sovereignty and whether it has the capacity to protect millions of environmentally-displaced citizens.