Zahar Koretsky

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

Apparently, very topical
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From miners to markets: discursive struggle in Romania’s coal phase-out We examine the rapid and transnationally influenced coal phase-out in Romania’s Jiu Valley during the 1990s, with a focus on how macro-political agendas reshaped public discourse around coal and co...

📑Our paper with B. Turnheim on the discursive work in phase-out is finally out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social ! We explore the construction of directionality in a post-socialist case, and discuss how sustainability transitions can be exclusionary and unjust
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📢 A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 Destabilisation in transitions and its governance. Tune in my discussion with Leonard Frank of the University of Freiburg, one of the heads of the Destabilisation, Discontinuation and Phase-Out thematic group of the STRN

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📢 A new transitions vision! 🧊 How do communities experience impacts on cultural heritage posed by climate change and colonial legacies? Check out my talk with Abbie Yunita of Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University.
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A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 In this one I chat with Sergey Kolesnikov of Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance on technology spillover. What is it and what is its role in innovation? Can we anticipate it and why does this matter?

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A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 In this one I chat with Marith Dieker on her STS work at HAN University of Applied Sciences. Why collaborate with engineers as a social scientist? What does this work entail? How has this work been changing in recent years?

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Ep 16 - Small-scale self-sufficient food production. With Marjory Wildcraft Transitions Visions · Episode

📢 A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 Self-grown food as a revolutionary act. This is the topic of my chat with Marjory Wildcraft, the founder of the Grow Network, a movement for a lifestyle shift towards self-sufficient food production.

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📢 A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 What does conceptual disruption do and what can *we* do about it? I chat with my good friend philosopher @loehrgui.bsky.social about these questions, as well as the politics of joint action, publishing strategies, and sex robots.

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New episode of Transitions Visions! Is 'switching to industry' a possibility for interdisciplinary PhDs? How is it different to working at a uni? What does it take and who is it for? Join my conversation with Hade Dorst about her experiences working at TNO.

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Kind request for fellow Lowlands dwellers: if you happen on any info about an available apartment to rent in #Utrecht, pls let me know 🏡

Check out my conversation with Jonas Torrens from the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development on interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and belonging to academia and to places. Valuable advice for interdisciplinary PhDs inside.

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"degrees in Behavioural and Social Sciences ... are popular with [international students], followed by programs in Law and Governance. These fields offer far less promising career prospects."
You had to rub it in...
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Wrote this in 2018/19 for a short story competition. If you're in the mood for a climate action + digitech utopian speculative short fiction with a pluriversal flavour.
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So far very cosy :)