The video is part of the course Sustainable Development – Ideas and Imaginaries, which is freely available:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development-ideas-and-imaginariesIn the second part of module 3, we'll continue to look at the relation between humans and nature, between society and environment, and how that kind of imaginaries impact how we act. The understanding of nature and culture and the intertwined relationship between the two concepts has deep implications for which methods of achieving sustainable development that appear to be most attractive. How have modern society understood the relations between nature and society? How have modern society organized politically when coping with environmental and climate change?
This video includes:
Jesper Vestermark Køber, Postdoc in History at the University of Copenhagen: Why did people believe that ‘small is beautiful’ in the 1970’s?
Frida Hastrup, associate professor in ethnology at the University of Copenhagen: Why is nature and culture starting to be considered as intertwined? What does it mean to decenter the human in history?
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