Afternoon schedule

Room J210, 13 rue de l'Université (75007 Paris)

- 12.30-14:30: AIRE seminar "Cross-cultural learning can help re-orient dominant gender systems away from facilitating growth and environmental degradation, and toward care and regeneration of abundant life" with Susan Paulson (University of Florida, Visiting at CRIS)

- 14:45-16:45 : Presentation of their master thesis by candidates shortlisted for the AIRE Award for Environmental Student Research

12:30-14:30 : Seminar

Cross-cultural learning can help re-orient dominant gender systems away from facilitating growth and environmental degradation, and toward care and regeneration of abundant life

With Susan Paulson, Professor at University of Florida, Guest Professor at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris

This seminar starts with a look at how gender-kin systems institutionalized and disseminated with colonial capitalism became instrumental to economic and population growth. Decolonial, ecofeminist, and ecomasculinities studies illuminate ways in which gender continues to interact with racial and socioeconomic systems to organize and justify unequal ecological and economic exchanges that facilitate profit for some and degradation for others. 

Ethnography in Indigenous Latin American contexts reveals glimpses of different systems, including men who enact nurturing human and interspecies care, and feminists who celebrate and politicize collaborative practices for healing and regenerating life. In response to fierce resistance to gender change, the conclusion rallies anthropological understandings of human potential to produce and reproduce wildly diverse worlds.

Speaker : 

Susan Paulson serves as Professor at University of Florida and is currently Guest Professor at Sciences Po, Paris. Decades of field research on human-environment relations in Andean and Amazonian communities inform Paulson‘s current work toward global environmental justice. She learns with diverse interlocutors in forums ranging from indigenous workshops to executive summits, and in outlets from Degrowth.info to The Economist. Recent publications include World-making technology entangled with coloniality, racialization, and gender (2024), Degrowth and Anthropology (2024), Economics of abundance with degrowth (2023), and the co-authored book The Case for Degrowth (2020), translated into ten languages.

Coffee break

14:45-16:45 : AIRE Award for Environmental Student Research - Presentation of the five shortlisted students

• 14:45-15:05 : Joséphine BERTOUX, ""We want more green, but...": Protesting urban greening in Paris" (Research School, Master in sociology)
• 15:10-15:30 : Susanne DE JONG, "The EU Strategic Partnerships for Critical Raw Materials with Emerging and Developing Economies - A True Promise of Local Value Creation?" (PSIA, Master in Environmental Policy)
• 15:35-15:55 : Berta FLORES ARICO, "The agents of wind : Gender perspectives on the green energy transition. An ethnography in La Guajira" (PSIA, Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action)
• 16:00-16:20 : Julia KIELOCH, "Energy transition for whom? Examining the distribution of green subsidy schemes in Poland" (EAP, Master in Public Policy)
• 16:25-16:45 : Paul SERVAIS, "The energy transition in rural France: powering the radical right ?" (Urban School, Master in Governing ecological transitions in cities)