24th YHYS colloquium: Wisdom in crisis (YHYS2019)


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Rahoittajan antama koodi/diaarinumero02-2019-000290-03


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  • 2 600,00


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Hankkeen aikataulu

Hankkeen aloituspäivämäärä01.05.2019

Hankkeen päättymispäivämäärä31.01.2020


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In the pressing need to prevent the heating of our climate and mass-extinction of species, the humanity has to start using natural resources more wisely. It also has to use its limited social resources more wisely to resolve the environmental crises. However, our wisdom as researchers and the usability of scientific knowledge is challenged even at high political levels. In environmental social science, we do this challenging by emphasising the importance of diverse knowledge systems, pointing out ways scientific results are constructed and unveiling the creation of important and salient facts in policy-making. While this does not mean post-truth, it evidently calls for the need to improve our understanding of the different roles knowledge, and the theories we use, can take in planetary crisis. In fact, the critical analyses and experience in knowledge co-creation and natural resource conflicts resolution - also offered by environmental social scientists - provide important means for solving the problems.

The post-truth era calls for the study of discourses, frames and narratives unveiling the construction of truth-claims and hierarchies between knowledge systems related to natural resource use. Furthermore, it calls for collaboration between researchers representing different disciplines, as well as other experts, artists, activists, citizens and policy-makers, in the solving of the resource crises. Finally, an increased emphasis on research ethics is required. In this colloquium, we reflect the role of knowledge in generating and improving the ways of using natural resources and foster transdisciplinary dialogue on the role of wisdom in our society.


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