Ever wondered how much energy it takes to haul a car up the Eiffel Tower? In this episode, Dr. Andreas Roos from the Human Ecology Division takes us deep into the world of 'petroculture' – the hidden influence of fossil fuels on our daily lives. We’ll uncover how our culture is filled with assumptions powered by fossil energy, and why it matters more than ever today.

the Episode is in English, and Podcast host is Sanna Händén-Svensson.

About the researcher:

Andreas Roos is an interdisciplinary scholar and researcher at the Human Ecology Division (within the Department of Human Geography at Lund University). Drawing on ecological economics, political ecology, ecological humanities, and philosophy of technology, his work explores emancipatory solutions to environmental injustices and global power dynamics. He focuses on how technologies mediate human-environmental relations and is the author of Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice published by Routledge.

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In this episode we explore nomadic grassroots innovations in the maritime shipping sector together with Human geographer, sustainability transitions researcher, and sailor Hanna Bach, who recently defended her thesis, titled ”Navigating Sustainable Shipping: Multi-scalar transition dynamics in the maritime shipping sector”. Hanna will take us around the world with these nomadic initiatives, focusing on sustainability connections, hindrances, and promoters to their progression, and why and how they are important alternatives to explore and develop further, for the sake of our future.

The language spoken in this episode is English, and the Podcast host is Sanna Händén-Svensson.

About Hanna Bach

Hanna Bach comes from a background in environmental and sustainability science and has recently defended her PhD thesis in Human Geography. She also has previous working experience from the maritime shipping industry. In her research, Hanna explores different aspects of what is needed to replace fossil fuels with more sustainable fuels and technologies in the maritime shipping sector. For her PhD project, Hanna has investigated the influence of global and national policy incentives on development and implementation of more sustainable technologies, as well as how community-initiated bottom-up grassroots innovations form and develop in the maritime shipping sector. Her research interests also include how we can make sectors that are specifically hard to decarbonise, such as the shipping industry, more sustainable, as well as how well-established global structures influence sustainability processes in international sectors.

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In this episode Henrik Gutzon Larsen, senior lecturer at KEG, talks about his research on collaborative housing, with examples from Denmark, Spain (Barcelona) and Sweden. We will, among other things, learn about the role of tenure and ownership in structuring collaborative housing projects and phases in Danish co-housing. Henrik also talks about what human geographers bring to housing research.

About our guest:

Henrik Gutzon Larsen is senior lecturer in human geography at KEG. Before coming to Lund, Henrik taught geography at the universities in Copenhagen, Roskilde, and Aalborg. His current research addresses urban geography and housing, political geography, and history of geographic thought.

The Podcast, Season 2, is hosted by Sanna Händén-Svensson. This particular Episode is in English. The Podcast is produced by The Department of Human Geography, Lund University.

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