Working Group Titles and Coordinators
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- Nurturing Hope and Resistance in the Ruins
- Coordinators: Bayan Arouri (Tampere University), Ebru Sevik (Tampere University), Meeri Tiensuu (Tampere University), and Caecilie Svop Jensen (Tampere University)
- The Entanglement of Gen Z, Democracy and Geopolitics in the Global South
- Coordinators: Tiina Seppälä (University of Helsinki) and Manoj Bhusal (University of Helsinki)
- Intergenerational Hope in Sparsely Populated Regions
- Coordinators:Tapio Nykänen (Oulu University) and Helena Ristaniemi (Oulu University)
- Sites of Ruins, Sites of Hope: (Re)Thinking Building Infrastructures in the Precarious Present
- Coordinators: Dayabati Roy and Roshni Chattopadhyay
- Pedagogy of Resistance: Social Movements, Popular Education, and Transformative Learning
- Coordinator: Meri Mononen-Matias (University of Helsinki)
- Philosophical and Spiritual Practices for Sustainability Transformations: Cultivating Inner Wisdom, Embodying Change
- Coordinators: Ramcilovik-Suominen Sabaheta (Luke – Natural Resources Institute of Finland) and Jessica Böhme (Institute for Practical ekoPhilosophy)
- From Crises to Just Sustainable Futures: Reimagining the ‘Ecotopia’ in Socio-Ecological Systems
- Coordinators: Ayonghe Nebasifu (University of Helsinki), Karen Heikkilä (University of Helsinki), and Alizée Ville (University of Helsinki)
- Governing in the Ruins of Green Development: Neoliberal and/or Authoritarian Sustainability and the Cracks of Everyday Ecologies
- Coordinators: Taru Salmenkari (University of Helsinki) and Virginie Arantes (Université libre de Bruxelles)
- Extractivism, Recognition, and Responsibility: The Search for More Just Futures
- Coordinators: Anja Nygren (University of Helsinki), Anna Heikkinen (University of Helsinki), Mira Käkönen (University of Helsinki), and Anu Lounela (University of Helsinki)
- Planting Promises: Money, Myths, and the Realities of Global Tree Planting and
Ecological Restoration- Coordinators: Markus Kröger (University of Helsinki), Ossi Ollinaho (University of Helsinki), and Sophia Hagolani-Albov (University of Helsinki)
- Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures
- Coordinator: Abirlal Mukherjee (Amity University)
- Methodology as a Tool for Resistance and Hope
- Coordinator: Reyhane Gholami (Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium)
- Supporting Environmental Defenders to Advance Environmental and Social Justice
- Coordinators: Denis Ruysschaert (University of Helsinki) and Yannick Wild (Peace Brigades International)
- Re-imagining Futures from the Edges: Epistemologies and Experiences of Sustainability and Resistance Otherwise
- Coordinators: Tuija Veintie (University of Helsinki), Nathaly Pinto (Aalto University), Marinka Räsänen (University of Helsinki), Eleonora Lundell (University of Helsinki & University of Neuchatêl), and Monica Lemos (University of Helsinki)
- Shifting Foundations for Civic Space and Expanding Solidarity: Learning, Care, and Collective Agency Beyond Development
- Coordinators: Crystal Green (University of Helsinki) and Susan Wiksten (University of Helsinki)
- Reimagining Political Participation in an Age of Geopolitics: Southern Experiences
- Coordinators: Henri Onodera (University of Helsinki) and Karim Mäiche (University of Lapland)
- Reclaiming Metaphysical Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Ancestral Healing, and Regenerative Development in the Global South
- Coordinators: Munya Saruchera (Stellenbosch University) and Sostina Spiwe Matina (Wits University)
- The Political Economy of the Green-Digital Transition
- Coordinators: Edemilson Paraná (LUT University) and Rodrigo Santaella Gonçalves (LUT University)
- How to Stand with Sudan: Transnational Solidarity in Academia and Beyond
- Coordinators: Benjamin Byholm (Keho ry) and Johanna Airaksinen (Keho ry)
- Experiences from the DEVELOP2 research programme
- Coordinator: Mikko Ylikangas (Research Council of Finland)
- Nurturing Hope and Resistance in the Ruins