Project description
Embracing diversity for a just future
In the pursuit of sustainable development, the mantra ‘Leave no one behind’ often falls short for marginalised groups like the disabled and queer communities. The ERC-funded WEIRD project seeks to remedy this disparity. By integrating disability and queer scholarship, WEIRD aims to redefine sustainability research, advocating for inclusive, just transformations that challenge normative social constructs. This interdisciplinary initiative will bridge gaps in current knowledge, develop transformative methodologies, and promote ethical frameworks that prioritise emancipation and justice. By amplifying voices traditionally excluded from sustainability discourse, WEIRD promises to enrich our understanding and approach to creating a more equitable and sustainable future.
Objective
A major adagio of the Sustainable Development Goals is “Leave no one behind” implying that actions addressing the sustainability challenges of our time should not be only ecologically beneficial, but also emancipatory for the most vulnerable and marginalized. Yet, many vulnerable and marginalized groups are often left behind in sustainability research and actions.
Despite the increasing engagement of disabled and queer scholars and societal actors for environmental and climate justice, their voices are rarely considered in research and action on sustainability transformations. Using an inter and transdisciplinary approach, this project aims to understand and redefine the often-neglected contributions of disability and queer scholarship and societal initiatives around sustainability towards new theories, methodologies, and ethics of just and emancipatory sustainability transformations.
WEIRD will: (1) overcome the fragmentation of disability and queer scholarship around sustainability; (2) explain how disability and queer societal initiatives contribute to just sustainability transformations by subverting ableistic and cis/heteronormative social norms; (3) develop new theories of emancipatory sustainability transformations that rely on subversive social norms; (4) generate new transformative methodologies in sustainability science; (5) redefine transformative justice for sustainability and the ethics of sustainability science.
This project is groundbreaking because it will generate new theories, methodologies and ethics to systematically integrate issues of justice and emancipation in the study of sustainability transformations that are anchored in, but not limited to, disability and queer perspectives.
Overall, through the synergistic achievement of all its objectives, WEIRD will enhance the potential of sustainability science to generate new knowledge about and for just sustainability transformations.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences sustainability sciences
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2023-COG
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00014 Helsinki
Finland
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