2019

Our 2019 content highlights

Articles

Ignoring the voices that matter: food production and the media in a changing climate

Our failure to listen is causing isolation and marginalisation with deeply tragic consequences. Ahead of the launch of her book, Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics, Alana Mann asks how we can go beyond false media narratives and truly support farmers in the midst of drought.

The University of Sydney announces new sustainability strategy

The SEI welcomes the University of Sydney’s renewed commitment to campus sustainability and looks forward to contributing to the development of the new strategy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.