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We are delighted to be joined by Germain Meulemans to discuss his work on soil and soil ecologies for our Reading Group on Dec 13, 15:00 CET. This will be a hybrid session.
For in-person: Blindern Campus, P.A. Munchs hus, room PAM489.
For Zoom: https://uio.zoom.us/j/67834768316
Readings
For this session, we will be discussing the following texts:
Meulemans, G. 2020, ‘Reclaiming Freak Soils: From Reconquering to Journeying with Urban Soils’ in Juan F. Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska, Matthew Kearnes and Manuel Tironi [eds.] Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory, 157–174, London: Bloomsbury.
Meulemans, G. 2020, ‘Urban pedogeneses: the making of city soils from hard surfacing to the urban soil sciences’. Environmental Humanities, 12 (1), 250–266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142330 <https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142330>
Welcome to an exciting and interesting discussion! We are looking forward to seeing you!
About the Presenter
Germain Meulemans' work is at the intersection of environmental anthropology and STS. After obtaining his PhD from the Universities of Aberdeen and Liège in 2017, he did an IFRIS postdoctorate at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS, CNRS, MNHN) before joining the FORCCAST program at the Medialab . He has worked on rodent proliferation in agricultural context, on urban soil knowledge and policies, and on critical urban agriculture. Since 2016, he has been involved in projects and arts-sciences, then citizen sciences, around urban soils and pollution issues in Seine Saint Denis.